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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 15 Like a large number of young men, I found myself passably educated, able to parse a sentence or so in Greek, and familiar enough with the abstractions of philosophy and economics to know that I would not be likely to fit into that world to which they claimed to bear some obscure relation.
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1 183 There was an unpleasant, acrid odor in the air, some fumes of a sort that I was not familiar with.
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10 189 "What is the meaning of that?" "Surely you are familiar with a slave whip?" I asked, picking it up and, with amusement, slapping it once or twice in my palm.
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19 171 I heard the joyous cry, "Sword Brother!" It was Kazrak's voice! "Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried another familiar voice—that of my father.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 62 It felt strange to hold it again in my hand, to feel its weight, the familiar grasp of the hilt.
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4 97 Was the sleen not familiar with that saying? I shook my head, to clear it of the wild thoughts.
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5 2 The road was familiar, the long, relatively steep ascent to the crest of that series of ridges beyond which lay Ko-ro-ba, an ascent that was the bane of strap-masters of caravans, of bearers of burdens like poor Zosk, the woodsman, of all travelers afoot.
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11 23 There seemed to be something familiar about him.
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Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 15 I was pleased to see that its top was a sparkling curvature of some transparent substance, perhaps a special glass or plastic, for no glass or plastic with which I was familiar would be likely to withstand the stresses generated by such a structure.
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10 26 The number of familiar, common English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of fifty.
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13 31 The Priest-King, for all his intelligence, tends to be fond of established patterns, at least in basic cultural matters such as Nest mores and language, subscribing to them however not because of genetic necessity but rather a certain undoubtedly genetically based preference for that which is comfor...
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14 101 The washing-booth was remarkably like the showers with which we are familiar except that one may not regulate the flow of fluid.
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19 14 Sarm was apparently familiar with Misk's compartment.
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21 18 Almost instantly I recognized the familiar odor.
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25 106 Indeed, as I spied through the grille I saw that not all of the cases were occupied by humans but some by a variety of other organisms, some of the types with which I was familiar in the Nest but others not, and some of the others were, as far as I could tell, even mammals.
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27 109 I was already familiar with the astounding patience of Priest-Kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of Priest-Kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother.
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34 42 "Well," said Torm, thoughtfully, for it did not behoove a member of his caste to volunteer an opinion too rapidly on any matter, "it does not contradict any text with which I am familiar".
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 134 Moreover, even if she is never enslaved, she is familiar with the duties of slaves and what is expected of them; if she should be enslaved she will know, on the whole, what is expected of her, what is permitted her and what is not; moreover, the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not,...
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9 138 The simple, short, sleeveless tunic is familiar.
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16 15 "How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup...
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20 139 She, a girl of the plains, familiar with fierce kaiila, herself a proud, spirited wench, brave and daring, was yet—like many women—utterly for some reason terrified of a tarn.
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21 229 There seemed to be something familiar about him.
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22 15 Also I knew many of the Tuchuks were familiar with my perhaps too-red hair and might, seeing it, generously refrain from firing on its owner.
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Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

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9 78 I looked suitably impressed, though of course, from Earth, I was familiar with the principles of such things.
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11 114 "Surely," said Flaminius, "you do not think we lack men who are familiar with the world from which these slaves have been brought.
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12 386 It struck me that there was something familiar about the voice.
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13 273 "Are you familiar with tarns?" asked Mip.
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13 276 "Yes," I said, "I am familiar with tarns".
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13 363 "Are you familiar with such knives?" asked Mip.
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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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20 302 There was something subtly familiar about it.
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21 85 The voice struck me as familiar, as being one I had heard somewhere before.
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21 204 The salute was an ancient one, and I have little doubt it was brought to Gor centuries earlier, perhaps by men who had been familiar with arena sports and had initiated them in luxurious Ar, men doubtless from other places and times.
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22 205 Then the bird, which had in its time won a thousand races and more, addressed itself again to that fierce and familiar path in the Stadium of Tarns.
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24 5 But it was my old sword, the fine, familiar steel, remembered even from the siege of Ar, many years before, that I dropped into the scabbard.
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24 131 "Apparently he was not as familiar with the apartments of Cernus as he led you to believe".
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 30 That fact, in itself, that the long bow is a peasant weapon, would make many Goreans, particularly those not familiar with the bow, look down upon it.
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14 440 The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo...
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17 226 He chose to fight wars with which he was most familiar.
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17 353 Its movements were as sure and as swift as though it might have been over the familiar crags of the Voltai or the canals of Port Kar.
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18 518 As I climbed the ladder I was glad that the old blade, the familiar steel, with its memories of another life and time, when I had been Tarl Cabot, was at my side.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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5 11 But the pressing of fresh grass against my cheek told me I was no longer in the penthouse, in surroundings with which I was familiar.
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6 176 There seemed something, however, that was familiar about his speech.
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6 193 It struck me then what was familiar about the language Targo spoke.
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8 650 Vaguely, the small mountebank, in his swirling, silly robes, with his painted face, seemed somehow familiar, but I knew he could not be.
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10 24 Too, somehow the voice seemed familiar to me, but I could not recall if, or where, I had once heard it.
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11 379 She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
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12 170 I would turn him into no more than the men whom I knew on Earth, those with whom I was familiar.
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12 718 Others, flying low and to the side, roped the girls as they ran, using their slender ropes of braided leather, familiar to all tarnsmen.
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13 174 I, however, contented myself with nuts and fruits, and roots, and water creatures which resembled those with which I was familiar, and, of course, the flesh of small birds and animals.
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13 801 So, as he would not want me, I would not want him! As though one could control such things! There seemed something familiar about the strong figure, he before whom I lay, so exposed and bound.
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14 81 Ena, the high girl, who wore the garment of white, had not been much pleased that I did not have a caste, and could not claim a familiar city as my place of origin.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 249 "Are you familiar with the northern forests?" I asked.
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1 250 "What man is familiar with the forests?" he asked.
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2 709 In the forests, this afternoon, Thurnock and Rim, who were familiar with such matters, the first as a peasant, and the second as an outlaw of the forests, had set snares.
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3 46 Three with which I was familiar from various voyages, were Tabor, Teletus and, to the north, offshore from Torvaldsland, Scagnar.
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5 123 Gorean slave girls, those that are familiar with their collars, know that there is no escape for them.
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6 266 We would, of course, as before, if the need arose, not approach the camp by the familiar route.
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11 932 "Does it not seem to you too simple, too familiar, too common?" she asked.
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15 51 Gorean men, familiar with the second knowledge, regard the women of Earth as natural slaves.
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15 97 The men of Tyros, I knew, familiar with islands and the sweeps of gleaming Thassa, were inexperienced in the forest.
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 210 All over Gor, of course, the slave girl is a familiar commodity.
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6 499 He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t...
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9 31 Pet sleen are taught to heel; so, too, sometimes, are bondmaids; I was familiar with this sort of thing, of course; in the south it was quite common for slave girls, in various fashions in various cities, to heel their masters.
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11 232 The term translated "cattle" was sometimes qualified to discriminate between four-legged cattle and two-legged cattle, of which the Kurii were familiar with two varieties, the bounding Hurt and the human.
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13 265 Until this time I had been familiar only with the bluish stones.
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16 42 It was drawn by one who had been familiar with a world unknown to Ivar Forkbeard.
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18 669 I, myself, more familiar with Kurii, with the secret wars of Priest-Kings, suspected that men had not yet heard the last of such beasts.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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3 211 The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ...
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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4 197 They were familiar exercises, slave-female exercises, designed to keep a girl supple, loose, vital, fit, for her master.
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4 198 "You are familiar with matters of diet?" he asked.
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5 433 "As a slave girl you will become quite familiar with chains.
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7 369 It is useful to our purposes, in infiltrating houses, in obtaining secrets, in seducing officers and important men, and, of course, to reward our followers and, naturally, as a simple item for exchange, a form of currency; the slave girl is usually in demand, particularly if beautiful and trained; a...
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10 277 The war cry of the Aretai, as I am familiar with it, is 'Aretai victorious!'" "Interesting," I said.
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10 391 "Are you familiar with a stone," asked he, "near the route between Tor and Nine Wells, which bears an inscription?" "Yes," I said.
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11 187 I was familiar with two sorts of mirages on the desert, of the sort which might be, and often were, seen by normal individuals under normal circumstances, not the mirages of the dehydrated body, the sun-crazed brain, not private hallucinatory images.
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13 413 Too, some Goreans, those familiar with the Second Knowledge, occasionally have some inkling, though an imperfect one, of certain negativistic, antibiological cultural pathologies of Earth, in virtue of which they suspect that some of the Earth women may have formed incorrect views on certain matters...
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13 426 To be sure, these almost generic cruelties to which Earth girls in Gorean bondage so often found themselves subjected, such strictures, have tended to subside somewhat in the past year or two, as Earth girls become less exotic, and become a more familiar commodity in the markets, are more visible on...
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24 801 Surely you are familiar with the master who, at certain moments, permits his girl to speak her mind.
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26 734 "Surely you are familiar enough by now with Gorean custom," I said, "to have heard of the simple admonitory or introductory beating".
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26 835 It is, however, granted, a common mark, familiar, typical, customary, widely used, popular, that sort of thing.
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Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 130 How far away now seemed the familiar pollutions of the gray world I remembered.
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2 907 Had I known the world on which I knelt, how I would have rejoiced that I had not been lashed! As I later realized, allowances were being made for me which, had I been more familiar with the world on which I found myself, would not have been made.
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2 1085 It was not simply that he was brave, and had hunted such animals, but, as I later understood, that he was familiar with the habits of such beasts.
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7 1095 She is familiar with chains, and has worn them; she sees the whip, and has felt it.
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9 1915 The existence of such gowns, if Goreans were familiar with them, except on slaves, would be taken as more evidence of the fittingness, the naturalness and appropriateness, of enslavement for Earth females.
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9 2111 It is a common and familiar part of their life.
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13 446 He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,...
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15 80 "Are you familiar with the duties of a serving slave?" she asked.
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22 409 I had touched in her, however innocently or inadvertently, something in her with which she was familiar, something which terrified her.
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28 41 It is said that at that time the men of Ar were not familiar with the working of iron.
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28 47 "Are you familiar with the choreography of your display?" he asked.
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Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 467 It is easy to tell among girls which are familiar with their condition and which are not.
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4 254 At the least the opponent is less likely to be familiar with these supposedly obsolete, refutable beginnings.
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11 566 "Are you familiar with any of the rituals of enslavement?" I asked.
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15 845 "Indeed, statistically, in those parts of Gor with which I am familiar, very few.
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22 139 Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle.
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23 162 Ram, of course, a trader for years, was familiar with the tricks and jokes of red hunters.
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23 186 "She looks familiar".
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35 525 "Are you familiar with the chain-and-track system, for controlling the movements of slaves?" I asked.
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35 986 "Over here, Tarl who hunts with me!" called a familiar voice.
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37 111 The mushroom-shaped cloud was disconcertingly familiar.
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Book 13. (24 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 245 But surely, even if you are not familiar with the role of Bila Huruma in these things, you have heard of the further discoveries of Shaba".
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1 645 He, through my discussions with him, and his work with the Sardar, was familiar with certain technological possibilities.
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5 566 "Just as you could not, as a free woman, attain to the heights of the rudimentary slave orgasm recently inflicted upon you so, too, you, as a new slave, cannot yet attain to the overwhelming and degrading ecstasies familiar to a girl longer in the collar".
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6 519 The knot at the ring was a simple bowline, familiar to all who know the sea, brought to Gor perhaps hundreds of years ago by mariners who had once sailed the Aegean or the Mediterranean, perhaps who had once called not such ports as Schendi or Bazi their own, but Miletus or Ephesus, or Syracuse or C...
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8 123 Certain figures are formed with the hands and beads which have symbolic meaning, much of which was lost upon me, as I was not familiar with the conventions involved.
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11 13 Something in it, when she had cried out, or spoken to me, suggested that she might be familiar with English.
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11 355 I did not think he was of the warriors but I had little doubt he was familiar with the uses of steel.
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16 52 It is estimated that some five to eight percent of the people of Schendi are familiar with the inland speech.
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19 147 They are familiar with the sleen of the north".
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20 110 It was harder for me, of course, for I was not that familiar with the inland speech.
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21 38 Furthermore, any light galley with which I am familiar, though comparatively shallow-drafted, would be too deeply keeled to traverse this marsh".
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24 60 Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa.
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25 38 "Are you familiar with the Ua?" I asked.
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27 188 Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...
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27 191 They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet.
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32 309 "Surely you are familiar with the biological concept, and the sorts of behavioral patterns which are subsumed beneath it".
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32 510 "I am familiar with such garments for the upper and lower body," I said.
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32 871 I found the building, somehow, familiar.
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32 887 I knew then why the building seemed so familiar.
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33 117 It is, for example, quite familiar in Port Kar and, far to the southeast of that port, and somewhere far to the north and east of our present position, in the Tahari.
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34 286 "You are not familiar with the slogans," she said.
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34 298 No man with whom I am familiar would be content with a woman who lacked consciousness.
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34 460 It moved a quarter of an inch upward, and did not strike against its familiar bolts.
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34 815 To be sure, the Gorean commonly alters the pronunciation somewhat, to conform with phonemic variations with which he is more familiar.
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Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 572 They are reasonably obvious, however, to those familiar with the psychology of groups.
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1 720 "I'm familiar with that sort of thing," I said.
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2 64 This is fully clear to anyone who is familiar with such matters.
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4 238 You are familiar with the nature of such myths, such superstructures and defense mechanisms.
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7 459 The female slave understands, or soon realizes, that she is a familiar, recognized, accepted, valued, prized, integral ingredient in a developed, colorful, functioning, complex society, one in which nature is acknowledged, even enhanced, by civilization rather than subverted and denied.
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7 514 I had little doubt but what many specialists on Earth were familiar with such facts, facts they found it politically pertinent to suppress, or, should one say, politically pertinent to avoid bringing forward for general attention.
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12 153 But I see that you are not truly familiar with the males of Earth, fearing that some of them might be men.
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18 162 The odors are distinctive but, when one grows accustomed to them, familiar and not really unpleasant.
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18 238 "He seems familiar," she said, lightly.
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27 113 Needless to say, the institution of female slavery is a familiar one on Gor, with a tradition behind it, it seems, of thousands of years.
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29 73 "But for what reason, Jason," she begged, "for what possible reason?" "He knows you," I said, "and he is familiar with various matters known in Vonda and within her vicinity.
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32 120 As some may not be familiar with the subtleties involved, it may be helpful to mention some of them.
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34 172 Not surprisingly then, slaves are a frequent and familiar sight on Gor, in the streets and markets, in the taverns and shops, in the fields and on the roads, and so on, almost everywhere, and certainly one expects to find them in private houses, engaged in domestic labors and deferentially serving.
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Book 15. (15 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 308 Too, it seemed to me that I might, in spite of the mask, somehow have found him familiar.
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4 464 It is not at all unusual on Gor for a male, any male, and not simply a warrior, a guardsman, a raider, a slaver, or such, to be familiar with the binding of women.
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4 472 But, of course, in general, to return to our point, having to do with the binding of women, anyone who owns a slave, or has anything to do with them, would be expected to be familiar with this sort of thing, with a variety of interesting and efficient ties, useful for various purposes, in all of whi...
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7 134 "Are you familiar with a pirate named Kliomenes?" I asked.
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8 28 "I am not familiar with steel," I said, as pleasantly as I could manage.
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8 149 There seemed to me something familiar about the girl, but I could not place it.
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11 26 "It seemed to me, before," I said, "that you reacted to me as though you might once have seen me, as though I might be somehow familiar to you".
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21 31 On the other hand, as Earth women in Gorean markets have become more familiar and numerous, most Goreans have come to accept that their origin is a different world.
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21 330 This aspect of the sexuality of the female slave, her need as well as her responsiveness, would also be found astonishing by the men of Earth, accustomed only to the suppressed dispositions and conditioned inertnesses of the women with which he is familiar.
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23 63 "There is something about you which seems familiar," said Kliomenes.
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24 247 "Now I have it! I am the only Earth girl in the holding! They told you I was from Earth, didn't they! You are not familiar with Earth girls.
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26 40 If one is familiar with the city a single chaining is usually regarded as sufficient.
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27 65 I want you now," are words familiar to a slave girl, and words she hopes to hear.
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30 58 "How did you know that we were not the scout ships of Ragnar Voskjard?" We had, after all, known the signs and countersigns, and, presumably, those of the holding of Policrates would not be familiar with all of the men or ships of Ragnar Voskjard.
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32 43 There seemed something familiar about her.
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Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

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9 216 "You sound familiar," I said.
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19 652 "You are familiar with them, and their effectiveness?" I asked.
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19 919 The Gorean woman is quite familiar with bondage, as it is pervasive on Gor, but she will be dismayed, at least initially, with what has become of her.
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19 956 Or perhaps she is haughty and vain, an affluent, prized darling of Earth, au courant with the latest fashions, familiar with magazines and shops, an exemplar of, and fulfiller of, prescribed stereotypes, seeming to be something out of a lavish advertisement, or commercial, and regards herself with u...
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20 160 It was a form of merchandise with which he was quite familiar.
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20 654 "Master, may your slave clothe herself?" is a familiar question in a Gorean dwelling.
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20 892 "They all wear collars," is the first portion of a familiar exchange, of which Goreans are fond.
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20 896 A familiar bit of advice given by bold Gorean physicians to free women who consult them about their frigidity is, to their scandal, "Learn slave dance".
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21 250 "I hope that you are familiar with them".
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21 253 Certainly the refraining from eating or drinking before the master is familiar to any slave.
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21 254 I trust that if I err in certain others which may be less familiar, or of which I am simply ignorant, for these things may differ from city to city, and town to town, and domicile to domicile, you will inform me of my error, and the nature of what is required, and spare the lash, unless, of course, ...
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Book 17. (28 results) Savages of Gor

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14 247 It amused me that the youth, like so many individuals to whom only one language is familiar, so familiar that it seems that all humans must, in one way or another, be conversant with it, seemed to think that the girl must surely understand him if only he would speak slowly enough and with sufficient...
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1 697 The creatures, of course, would not be familiar with council procedures.
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1 730 "You are familiar, are you not," asked Kog, "with one known as Zarendargar?" "Who is Zarendargar?" asked Samos.
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1 761 "Are you familiar with this sort of thing?" asked Kog of Samos.
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2 398 How could I explain to Samos the dark affinity I shared with one whom I had met only once, in the north, and long ago, with one who, clearly, was naught but a beast? I recalled the long evening I had once spent with Zarendargar, and our lengthy, animated conversations, the talk of warriors, the talk...
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6 49 After one has been there for a few hours, however, the odor of the hides, now familiar and pervasive, tends to be dismissed from consciousness.
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8 197 "We are familiar with such straps, are we not?" Several of the men laughed.
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8 919 This is a familiar form of coffle collar.
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8 1051 "She would bring a high price," I said, "in almost any market with which I am familiar".
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12 62 "Surely you are familiar, as I suspect you are, with such carnage, with such practices?" he smiled.
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13 149 You, and those with you, are merely another handful of slaves, embonded females, merely new and fresh instances of a historically familiar commodity".
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13 548 She now has an identity, and is a certain sort of thing, a thing which is frequently encountered, the female slave, a thing with which she is likely to be culturally familiar.
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13 552 They understand it, and, from their own city, are familiar with it.
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13 555 Too, she understands, whether this pleases her or not, that she is not only a familiar and accepted part of Gorean society, but that she, like its gardens and architecture, is one of its loveliest aspects.
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13 1029 "I am not familiar with Gorean brands," she said.
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13 1256 "You are doubtless familiar, from your former world, with arts such as sewing and cooking, commonly thought appropriate for women," I said.
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13 1263 "But beyond such arts as cooking and sewing, arts commonly thought appropriate for women, arts with which you are familiar, there are, obviously, many other arts.
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13 1574 "It is not good for general security, but it is a good, and familiar, slave tie".
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13 1577 That is a familiar and effective security tie.
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14 969 Goreans are not unaware that there may exist such things as familiar enemies and friendly strangers.
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14 1175 He would not have been familiar, however, I speculated, with the warfare of the Barrens.
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14 1245 "I suspect that it is something which you have seen, or that you have seen similar things and are familiar with their origins".
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15 194 Her movement, of course, the shuddering, this responsiveness, was revealing, and would have been to any man familiar with female slaves.
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16 180 "One to whom codes were once familiar," I said, "one by whom they have never been completely forgotten".
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16 368 Indeed, many savages, for medicine reasons, might have been reluctant to attack them, as they did not appear to be beings of a sort with which they were familiar.
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17 159 Had she been of Earth origin, of course, she would have been far less startled, for then such creatures would have been much more familiar to her.
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18 12 He was now secured in a fashion more familiar to the Barrens.
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19 327 I was obviously not one familiar with the Barrens.
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Book 18. (20 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 182 Indeed, is it not that in dreams one may even enter the medicine world itself? In dreams is it not the case that one might sit about the fires of the dead, conversing with them? Is it not the case that in dreams one may understand the speech of animals? And is it not the case that in dreams one may ...
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2 45 For example, she is likely to be familiar with collars on other forms of domestic animals.
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2 81 Conceive if you can then such a woman extracted from her familiar environs and suddenly, seemingly inexplicably, finding herself an illiterate, despised, half-clad slave girl on an exotic, alien world, at the mercy of masters to whose will and ways she must instantly, selflessly and fully succumb.
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2 281 The Isanna would probably see little point in marching more familiar types, more common women, before the Isbu.
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7 354 "Do you know what it means," I asked, "when a woman is sent to report to a man, and she is naked, and in bonds?" "I am not familiar with Gorean ways," she said.
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8 26 Grunt wore the broad-brimmed hat, that one with which I was so familiar.
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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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12 289 "Are you familiar with the quirt?" I asked.
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12 293 It did not surprise me that she, a white female of red savages, was familiar with the quirt.
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12 413 This was, of course, a familiar master's tactic, usually used only with new slaves, young, inexperienced girls, fearful of the sexual aspects of their slavery.
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12 608 Too, she was doubtless familiar with contempt slaveries and vengeance slaveries.
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26 110 Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'.
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29 113 It was the first time that I had ever seen Grunt without the familiar, broad-brimmed hat.
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33 344 "We are generally familiar with one another's camp sites.
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39 235 "It is the girls in the cities, I take it," I said, "those of the sorts with whom you were familiar as a free woman, that you envy".
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41 96 "That is because you are thoroughly familiar with only one context of belief," I said, "your own.
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42 55 It was a feather of a sort with which I thought they, the Kinyanpi, might be even too familiar.
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43 360 Iwoso, of course, would presumably not be familiar with binding distinctions in the cities.
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44 216 Sometimes the girls, particularly if they are of high caste and are unlikely to be familiar with such things, are put through a course of training involving such domestic duties as cleaning and cooking, laundering and sewing.
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47 210 Perhaps they had feared less than might have Yellow Knives, Fleer or Kaiila, because they were more familiar with tarns than such tribes.
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Book 19. (31 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 120 "If it is a letter," he said, "it is not from an alphabet with which I am familiar".
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1 152 This end would not be well served by producing a twenty-five dollar bill, which was purple and of no familiar design.
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1 292 That stratagem, the pretext of a possible earlier acquaintance, hackneyed and familiar though it might be, still affords a societally acceptable approach to a female.
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1 317 He was very different from the men with whom I was familiar.
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2 163 "You look lovely," said the first man, he whom I recognized, he who was, by now, familiar to me.
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2 342 I looked at their legs and feet beneath the table, the shoes of he who was most familiar to me, the work boots of the two others.
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2 346 With such men I was not familiar.
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2 415 And what if they were displeased? They were not as the men with which I was familiar.
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2 452 "She is not for that," said he with whom I was most familiar.
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2 454 "True," laughed he with whom I was most familiar.
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2 466 If so, if that were natural, and was what I was, what was wrong with that? Why should one be ashamed of such things? Why should one be any more ashamed of vitality, health and need, than of one's complexion, or the color of one's hair or eyes? I suspected that he with whom I was most familiar well u...
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3 227 Did she not know that true men repudiated their natural sovereignty, forsook their manhood and conformed to prescribed stereotypes? Was she not familiar with the political definitions? I wondered then if there might not be another sort of true men, true men, like true lions, who, innocent of negativ...
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3 486 In most cultures, traditions and civilizations with which I am familiar, the right to own human beings was never questioned.
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3 693 How far this place seemed to me from the culture with which I was familiar, and yet how close was this place to my dreams.
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3 756 "Am I in Asia?" "Have you not noticed subtle differences in the gravity here," he asked, "from what you have been accustomed to? Have you not noticed that the air here seems somewhat different from that with which you have hitherto been familiar?" "I have seemed to notice such things," I said, "but ...
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3 775 "The technology involved is more sophisticated, more advanced, than that with which you are familiar," he said.
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5 56 He was a highly intelligent man, and familiar, clearly, with the geographical and political features of the problems.
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6 99 What I saw was clearly drama but it was not a form of drama with which I was familiar.
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12 21 Ligurious wore soldierly garb, but of a sort with which I was not familiar.
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25 23 Confinement in the slave sack is, incidentally, a familiar form of light punishment for a girl.
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26 234 In mentioning these things, one might also call to mind an aspect of these matters which is cultural to the Goreans, but is likely to overlooked by those not familiar with their culture.
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26 406 "Are you familiar with floor movements, Tiffany?" he asked.
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29 30 Our requiring the permission of the doorkeeper, or of another free person, before being permitted to leave the agency, incidentally, is a very familiar sort of thing.
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30 227 There seems to be a natural development, in many cases, from an unnamed but familiar street, to a street which is usually thought of under a given description, to a street which finally receives a name in a fairly ordinary sense.
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30 580 "You look very familiar to me," he said.
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31 96 "Surely you are familiar with the word," he said.
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32 36 The voice sounded familiar, but I could not place it.
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33 245 "You know that this is the woman whom you served, Susan," said Drusus Rencius, indicating me, "for you are familiar with her, and have no difficulty in recognizing her.
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33 668 "Some of us," said Menicius, "are familiar with the rumors, the frightening rumors, that there are forces on Gor, and elsewhere, who would challenge the power of the Priest-Kings themselves, rulers of Gor from time immemorial".
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36 642 The towers, streets, and bridges are often bright with color, strikingly in contrast with the passive urban monochromes, the browns and grays, with which you may be familiar.
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36 1274 The lowly slave's expressions of submission to her master, and her beggings, in Gorean, bespeak an articulate, rich civilization in which sexuality is a familiar, fundamental, open and joyous part of life, one not to be degraded and vulgarized with disdain and contempt, but celebrated with subtlety,...
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Book 20. (24 results) Players of Gor

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2 284 The audience is already familiar with them, from numerous performances in dozens of plays and farces, many of them largely improvised around certain standard types of situations.
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2 286 They are familiar even with mannerisms and dialects.
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2 452 Something about the position seemed familiar.
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3 229 The richness of your garments in the piazza, the weight of your purse, suggests to me that you might have had experience in such matters, that you had the means to be intimately familiar with the doings in markets, and so on".
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3 240 "Are you familiar with the duties of a silk slave?" she asked.
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4 279 Tarl, for example, my name, tends to a familiar one on Gor, particularly in the northern areas, such as Torvaldsland and its vicinity.
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4 282 There are probably hundreds of girls on Gor answering to those names, and others, almost as familiar, which are similarly luscious.
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5 266 I believe you are familiar with its effects".
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6 90 Such serious measures, of course, are seldom required to protect such familiar Gorean proprieties.
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6 379 This type of participation, so to speak, on the part of the audience is a very familiar thing in the lower forms of Gorean theater.
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7 210 I was already familiar with Boots's skill in slight-of-hand manipulations from Port Kar.
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7 414 Such things, I feared, might mark me as one to be reckoned with, or watched, one perhaps familiar with weapons.
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8 63 At any rate it did not seem that the repertory of Boots's company, as I was familiar with it at least, was richly or unusually endowed with roles of such a nature.
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9 343 "Surely you are familiar with the saying".
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10 80 To be sure, Boots had been beaten with a heavy whip, of the sort used on men, whereas she would find herself under only the familiar, common five-stranded Gorean slave lash.
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10 407 It is interesting to note that it comes as a revelation to many young Earth females brought to Gor as slaves that Gorean males are quite unlike the males they are familiar with from their home planet.
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12 78 If these irregular or eccentric defenses tend to be successful, of course, they soon, too, become part of the familiar, analyzed lore of the game.
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12 417 I had hoped, of course, that the player might be able to help me with this sort of thing, that he, ideally, might be familiar with the ciphers, or their keys.
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12 485 Priest-Kings, as far as I knew, were not familiar with, and did not play, what Goreans often speak of simply as "the Game".
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13 231 He was, however, familiar with the routines of the prison.
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13 273 The little creature was doubtless indeed familiar with the routines, the possibilities and opportunities, of prison life.
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14 131 Some of the men of Brundisium, several functionaries and soldiers, for example, and guards in the prison, were familiar with my identity.
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21 109 Belnar, like most Goreans, was doubtless familiar with Kaissa.
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22 344 I am familiar with their contents.
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Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 167 "Thank you, thank you, Master!" In a slave there is doubtless an immediate, abstract, intellectual understanding of her condition, say, that of her legal status, that she is property, and beast, particularly if she is a Gorean girl, and is culturally familiar with the institution, but this intellect...
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1 328 She was a Gorean woman, familiar at least superficially with the duties and obligations of slaves.
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1 331 Certain things which are not only common knowledge to slaves but even a normal, familiar part of their lives seem to be scarcely suspected by free women.
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2 37 It is interesting, however, upon occasion, to speculate upon the possible origins of just such familiar and taken-for-granted accommodations and adjustments.
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14 28 They control many of the most familiar and practical oceanic trade corridors.
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14 75 "I have gathered that you are familiar with the sword," he said, "and that you are from Port Kar".
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15 447 It is a drug familiar to slavers, thieves, and such.
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16 151 "Have I truly touched something so deep in you, so familiar, so recurrent, yet so frightening, that you dare not face it," she asked, "that you would lash out so at me?" "You are a terrible person!" said the daughter.
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16 1260 I imagined what she might look like with a collar on her neck, instead of the familiar thong and disk.
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16 1324 The letter "Tau" on the disk, for some reason I could not place, seemed vaguely familiar to me.
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18 64 It is a familiar, routine, you see, for such men.
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18 126 "Very well," I said, "but why Ar? Why not any one of a thousand other cities and towns?" I did not think that Boabissia would appreciate being informed that she was indeed not only unlike the usual Alar woman, but that she was of a quite different sort, a sort that many Goreans were familiar with, a...
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19 24 The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the leather, these having to do w...
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19 398 "He seems familiar," admitted Hurtha.
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22 80 "How can one find one's way around in this place?" "One becomes familiar with it," said the proprietor.
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24 94 The culture is perhaps different from one with which you might be more familiar.
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25 968 The culture with which she had been familiar was, at that time unbeknownst to her, for lack of a contrast or alternative, a gray, arid, unnatural, mechanistic culture.
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25 1162 "Are you familiar with it?" I asked.
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25 1725 A familiar tie in a camp is to bind the slave hand and foot and kneel her under a branch, or horizontal pole, about which her hair is tied, this holding her well in place.
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25 2348 Presumably the individual, or individuals, would be familiar with my appearance, either from the plaza near the Central Cylinder or from a description.
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26 694 She was quite familiar with it.
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26 746 I am sure you are familiar with the procedure".
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26 754 "I see that you are indeed familiar with the procedure," I said, I then thrust her back to the floor of the alcove.
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26 807 But then they may be familiar with such things, and their meanings".
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26 1696 The Gorean woman, on the other hand, is familiar with these contrasts.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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2 107 "Are you familiar with the book on the bottom shelf?" he asked.
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3 753 "And that is why I am so dangerous to you," he said, "because I am a member of your own species, because I understand you, because I know how you think, because I am familiar with your nasty little mind and emotions, your slynesses, your pettinesses, your selfishness, your stupid little tricks, ever...
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3 927 I was not familiar with the technology these men had at their disposal.
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4 27 Its gravity, preposterously enough, seemed less than that with which I was familiar.
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11 1646 It is familiar to ethologists.
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13 314 "Are you familiar with the ratings posted in the baths?" he asked.
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13 460 I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b...
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24 385 The familiar surroundings reassure her.
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24 624 I think we were both glad to see these familiar sights.
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29 1564 I think they, even Gorean girls, in a culture where the knife and sword were familiar, common weapons, had never seen anything like this.
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34 313 "You seemed to be familiar with the beasts," I said.
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34 327 As you remain as you are, so soft, so lovely, so attractive and desirable, you must expect to continue to face the risks and perils attendant on your beauty, on a world such as this, where it is a common mode of currency, a familiar means of exchange, where it may be used to bribe traitors, and be g...
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Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 182 To be sure, something about her seemed familiar.
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21 757 Yet, too, she shuddered with pleasure in her chains, realizing that she had been found worthy by a man to have so familiar, vulgar and exciting an expression, and doubtlessly appropriately, applied to her.
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21 948 Too, about the only Earth women Goreans are familiar with are those they buy from slave blocks.
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21 950 After the constraints and lies of an environment warped politically to subserve unnatural interests and goals they encounter for the first time in their lives men who are quite different from most of the men they have been familiar with, men who have not been culturally tamed, men who have not been ...
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Book 24. (21 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 830 It is a joke of young Goreans to sometimes whistle, or hum, such melodies, apparently innocently, in the presence of free women who, of course, are not familiar with them, and do not understand their origins or significance, and then to watch them become restless, and, usually, after a time, disturb...
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1 839 As Temione was from Cos I had little doubt that she would be familiar with the melody.
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1 842 It was the sort of melody of which free women often claim to be completely ignorant but, when pressed, prove to be familiar, surprisingly perhaps, with its every note.
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12 57 "It seems you are familiar with the politics of Ar," she said.
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12 129 To be sure, the groups with which I was familiar were far to the west, indeed, in the vicinity of the tidal marshes themselves.
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16 95 Indeed, I think that an individual, experienced in marshcraft, familiar with techniques of evasion and survival, of penetration and infiltration, traveling alone, moving with care, might easily escape the delta".
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18 2 By means of this, particularly if the opening of the stem is kept near the surface of the water, and those in the vicinity are not familiar with marshcraft, if they are not vigilant and keenly alert to the possibility of such techniques, one may often travel about in relative security and concealmen...
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18 4 Rencers are familiar with such techniques but seldom make use of them, except in trident and knife attacks.
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18 296 It would be dangerous leaving the delta, but I did not think it would be excessively difficult, not for one man traveling alone, one familiar with marshcraft, with techniques of evasion and survival.
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19 139 On Gor, women are relished as goods and prizes, and are understood as a familiar form of loot and wealth.
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19 140 They are familiar spoils of brigandage, raids, and war.
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19 145 When a Gorean woman meets a Gorean man she is probably well aware that he likely to be familiar, and from his very youth, with various skills, such as the tetherings of such as she, those of her sex.
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19 945 All women need the protection of men, though sometimes this protection is so profound and so familiar as to escape notice.
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19 1253 Let us suppose that a fellow of Earth, long ago reconciled, and thinking himself well informed and cleverly rational in being so, to the sort of women he is familiar with, the inert, egotistical, supercilious, frigid woman whom he takes as typical of an entire sex, should discover that his current i...
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25 118 Another familiar form of stock encloses the girl's neck and wrists.
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28 336 I supposed that when she had entered the delta in the purple barge, she, a high lady of Ar, in her silks and jewels, had not expected to serve common soldiers in one of the familiar modalities of a lowly captive.
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31 291 I gathered that he might not be familiar with women under male domination.
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31 325 "Where did you pick her up?" he asked, casually, rather as might a fellow to whom the acquisition of females was a familiar matter.
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31 447 "And, too, do not be hesitant as I assure you that pretty little Ina is already familiar with some of the rude, imperious usages to which, commonly, only slaves are subjected".
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36 24 The folks in this area would, by now, given the fall of Ar's Station, and the general success of Cos on the continent, be familiar with such accents in females.
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48 84 It also, of course, helps her to understand that the nature of her new reality, the reality in which she now finds herself, may be other than that with which she was formerly familiar.
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Book 25. (25 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 19 "I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
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1 420 They have little meaning beyond being familiar epithets of respect.
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2 254 "Master is undoubtedly familiar with many slaves, and things having to do with slaves," said Phoebe.
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2 256 Though Marcus was a young man and, as far as I knew, had never owned a personal slave before Phoebe, he, as a Gorean, would be familiar with slaves.
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2 258 Similarly he would be familiar with them from his military training, which would include matters such as the hunting and capture of women, who count as splendid trophies of the chase, so to speak, and his military life, as officers and men commonly have at their disposal barracks slaves, camp slaves...
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2 259 Too, of course, he would be familiar with the lovely properties encountered in paga taverns, and such places.
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2 261 The Gorean slave girl seldom needs to fear that her master will not be fully familiar with, and skilled in, the handling, treatment and discipline of slaves.
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3 944 Similarly, less familiar with tricks, prestidigitation, illusions, and such, than an Earth audience, some Goreans believe in magic.
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9 683 He, from as far away as Cos, seemed familiar with Earth-girl slaves.
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9 801 It is not merely a familiar brand, but, more importantly, a particularly lovely one.
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10 123 "I am not familiar with the politics of Ar," I said, "so I do not recognize the names".
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13 21 Such sports as these were familiar to Goreans, and had for years been privately practiced at numerous palestrae throughout the city.
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14 157 It was a standard collar, of a sort familiar in the north, flat, narrow, light, sturdy, close-fitting.
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17 161 The only folks who are not familiar with them, as far as I know, are the chaps from far-off Anango, who have never heard of them.
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17 445 "I suppose that these effects, so easily wrought by a skillful fellow, who knows how to bring them about, might actually, in these cases, have been produced not by familiar trickery but by the application of uncanny and marvelous powers".
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18 275 It would not be unusual to take a name such as 'Telitsia' which is most often a free woman's name and give it a shortened form, a more familiar form, perhaps one more fitting for a well-curved, delicious slave animal.
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19 215 Marcus, of high caste, was familiar with various tenets of the second knowledge, such things as the roundness of his world, its movement in space, and the existence of other planets.
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19 365 These are, of course, familiar aspects of the female slave.
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20 513 Another familiar example is the tiny, lovely, cursive 'kef' which is the same whether it is put on a girl in Cos, or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Thentis or Turia.
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22 166 This sort of thing is familiar, of course, in all languages, as Smith, Chandler, Carpenter, Carter, and such, stand for occupations, and names like Hampshire, Lake, Holm, Rivers, and such, stand for places, and names like Stone, Hammer, Rock, and such, stand for things.
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22 408 I think, as well, that this was not a familiar experience for the fellow.
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22 472 To be sure, invaders usually supply themselves with fellows who are familiar with the city.
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23 274 "I have made certain that there are many small discrepancies between the original and the copy," said Boots, "but mostly they are such as would be noticed only by one quite familiar with the Home Stone of Ar's Station".
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24 168 It is so familiar to them they think little of it.
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24 173 I suppose this is the primary reason why the status of the free woman on Earth is so low, so unimportant, so familiar as to be meaningless.
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Book 26. (53 results) Witness of Gor

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2 119 One tends, if naive, to think of those legalities with which one is most familiar as being somehow the only ones possible.
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2 123 Indeed, the legalities with which I was most familiar, as they stood in contradiction to nature, constituted, I supposed, in their way, an aberration of legalities.
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2 131 To be sure, these would be different legalities from those with which I was most familiar.
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4 4 Indeed, I suspected that I would not be familiar even with the calendar.
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4 60 The voices themselves, though clearly male, and human, seemed unlike those of men with whom I was familiar.
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4 71 How dare they speak like that? Who did they think they were? Men? Did they think they were men? That is, of course, "men" in a sense long since prohibited to, or abandoned by, the males with which I was familiar.
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4 158 Yet, oddly, it seemed sometimes reminiscent of other languages, which, to one degree or another, if only by sound, I was familiar with.
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4 175 It was totally unlike things with which I was familiar.
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4 181 It is so different from places with which I am familiar.
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4 188 It would be a world quite different from that with which I was familiar.
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4 318 I could hear them conversing, in their own language, whatever it might be, that language I could not place, that language which seemed so unfamiliar as a whole, and yet in which I detected, or seemed to detect, from time to time, like an image suddenly springing into focus, a familiar sound, perhaps...
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4 325 What did it mean, that my belly was beneath the chain? I would later become extremely familiar with such positions, but they were, at the time, quite new to me, and somewhat frightening.
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4 383 He was human! He smiled and put his finger to his lips, a gesture that warned me that I was not to speak, a gesture with which I was familiar, from my own cultural background.
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4 393 It was not the mild, pleasant configuration which in some localities, such as those with which I was more familiar, those more germane to my own antecedents, was often mistaken for that quality.
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5 48 But I did not think I had been brought here merely in the light of such familiar, comprehensible considerations.
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6 109 He added, "I am quite familiar with our current inventory".
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8 2 For a moment I had expected to awaken in a former place, in a former dwelling, in a once familiar room, as I had so often before.
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8 4 I would feel the sheets, and, with the tips of my fingers, beneath them, the familiar mattress.
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8 96 I pressed down with my finger tips, to feel the sheets and, beneath them, the familiar mattress.
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8 144 I now experienced, it seemed for the first time in days, a consciousness I recognized as familiar, as my own, neither confused nor disordered.
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8 231 Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness,...
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8 387 I was more familiar with kennels.
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8 533 I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts conc...
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10 26 I was to some extent familiar with these things from the cell's having been opened several times before, in the morning.
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10 247 Later they are drugged and removed from their familiar surroundings, to awaken in new surroundings, of the buyer's choosing.
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10 447 To them they were doubtless quite familiar.
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10 480 One theory for the revealing garb in which kajirae are commonly kept is that in a primitive, warlike, barbarous world, a world in which slavery is common, and beautiful women are regarded as a familiar form of booty, such garb tends to make them the desiderated objects of capture, seizure and theft,...
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10 869 "You are familiar with gag signals, are you not?" he asked.
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10 977 At that time, though I was familiar with sleen, or at least the one who had patrolled the ledge, I did not know the word.
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11 97 And I think that even one who is familiar with this world would find it quite alarming to be approached, even as I had been, by such an animal.
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11 500 The most familiar are the "common collar," which, in its varieties, tends to be flat and closely fitting, and the "Turian collar," which, in its varieties, is more rounded, and barlike, and fits more loosely.
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11 571 This is not entirely unnatural, of course, as such names are often beautiful, and, naturally, more familiar to the masters.
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11 1451 One was, of course, familiar with the studied inconspicuousness of the serving slave, for I had learned it in the pens.
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11 1573 Much depends on what is familiar to one, what one grows used to.
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12 141 Are we, familiar with the rise and fall of empires, who have witnessed the building of the pyramids and walked the streets of Babylon and Nineveh, who have heard the tread of the legions and watched the armada set forth, to take our moment, our brief afternoon, to be the summit and meaning of eterni...
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12 355 I did not think that that was very far, though, to be sure, I was not really familiar with linear measurements on this world.
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12 704 At any rate I, who had been fitted with, and subjected to, and had learned to endure, a considerable variety of gags, and mouth bonds, in my training, was familiar with it.
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12 706 I understood, of course, that such things might well not be familiar to free women.
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13 537 Others you will be kept ignorant of, even within passages with which you will be familiar.
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13 988 The name is then as familiar and common as that of any animal.
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14 557 Yes, even a pleasure slave, who might, in her more familiar modalities, drive a master mad with passion, may be expected, either out of his sight, or under his supervision, if he pleases, to make bread and repair a rent garment, such things.
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15 135 I was, however, familiar with the normalities of the depths, and recognized that an unusual degree of caution, and certainly special measures, were being taken in connection with this prisoner.
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16 602 "You did not dance badly," he said, "and it is clear that you are familiar with slave movement".
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19 1166 There are several familiar versions of this.
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24 780 "As slave girls," said the officer, "you will doubtless become quite familiar with the whip".
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29 234 Also, it then became clear to me that the slave, far more familiar with the voice than I, if it was indeed the voice which I thought, must have surely wondered or speculated, or suspected, or entertained hopes, about the identity of its owner long before I.
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29 448 It may be the most familiar brand on Gor for a female slave, but that does not make it any the less beautiful.
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35 42 It is one familiar to thousands of loving slaves.
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37 298 There is a common command, familiar to all female slaves, "Belly," which brings us instantly to our bellies before he who commands us.
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37 791 It, like the dagger, would doubtless be familiar to the wearers of the dark habiliments.
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39 74 But I did not doubt that I might be thought to be more familiar with the prisoner than any, save, of course, the pit master himself.
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39 75 Certainly I had little doubt that I was more familiar with him than he who now interrogated me.
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41 44 Indeed, she had seemed to be very familiar with him.
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Book 27. (48 results) Prize of Gor

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1 95 She was familiar with, at best, allusions to this world, seldom taken seriously, and most often, it seems incredible to her now, lightly dismissed.
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3 15 She wore what must be, or was similar to, a hospital gown, such as that with which patients are familiar, or those awaiting examinations in the offices of their physicians.
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3 64 There seemed to be some marks on the band, or ring, tiny marks, marks intentionally inscribed, clearly, but they were in no script with which she was familiar.
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4 75 Too, the older woman was alarmed, and troubled, by the sudden, prompt, immediate, graceful response of Tutina to the utterance "Anklet!" It was as though she had been trained to present the device for easy view, and immediately, gracefully, beautifully, upon the utterance of that word, which, it see...
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4 331 "On such a world," continued the young man, "being subjected to externally imposed limitations, those of the alien life forms, for example, various limitations on weaponry, transportation and communication, human cultures would exist, and develop, and express themselves rather differently, at least ...
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4 346 Accordingly, in many respects, not being afflicted by these processes, the human beings of our supposed world, that on which I am inviting you to conjecture, might tend in many ways to be healthier and happier, and to find their lives more rewarding and meaningful, more worth living, than many of th...
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4 347 The supposed world is then, one supposes, given the evolutionary heritage of the human animal, likely, on the whole, at least, to be much more congenial to human nature, and its fulfillment, than the world with which you are most familiar".
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4 365 In short, the supposed world, whose existence I should like you to entertain for the moment as a possibility, is, in some respects, far advanced over that with which you are most familiar.
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5 3 There was furniture not too much unlike furniture with which she was familiar from her first world, an attractive rug, two easy chairs, a small table, a chest at the side, for clothing and small articles, such things.
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6 35 It was not, however, the sort of mirror with which she was familiar, for it was rather more in the nature of a polished metal surface, set well within the wall.
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6 37 Since her image was not so instantly and clearly available to her as it would have been in a more familiar sort of mirror, she approached it more closely, puzzled, and peered into it.
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9 29 Her kneeling young charge, to her amazement, noted that these packages, sealed with tape, bore names and slogans with which she was familiar on Earth.
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9 30 She herself was familiar with these stores, and had shopped in them several times.
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9 33 Certainly they would be immediately recognized, at least by many familiar with a certain city.
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11 18 Generally one does not see, really see, one's familiar surroundings.
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11 336 "We are all familiar with war," he said.
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11 337 "In war, it is a familiar practice for the victors to despoil the conquered.
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11 339 For example, in this fashion, it has been a familiar practice of victors to take the women of conquered men from them and make them their slaves.
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11 697 A rather different sort of slave, familiar in the "high cities," in the "cylinder cities," one more domestically oriented, is the "tower slave".
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11 750 "A Home Stone, Master?" "Commonality of Home Stone extends beyond concepts with which you are familiar, such as shared citizenship, for example.
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13 12 How different this was from the gray, crowded, unkempt, polluted, unloved, filthy, squalid city with she was most familiar from her former world.
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16 126 No longer did it wear the thin, flat, light, graceful, lovely metal band with which she had become familiar, which she had scarcely been aware she had worn, until perhaps a sharp word or a stroke of the switch had recalled to her attention its significance.
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16 136 The heavy metal collar on her throat was uncomfortable, quite different from the light band with which she had been familiar.
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16 540 That Earth women are seldom veiled is taken by most Goreans, at least those familiar with the second knowledge, as evidence that we are slaves.
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16 825 The accent of the man, Ellen noted, did not seem the same as those accents with which she was most familiar, but he did speak Gorean, and she had no difficulty in understanding him.
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16 1354 "You will move with the left foot first," said Barzak, who did not know if Ellen was familiar with shackled-ankle coffle procedure".
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17 227 "And perhaps now, now that you are more familiar with her, you would like to think about buying this lovely bauble for your son.
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17 458 They tend to be extremely dangerous, possibly because they are familiar with the ways of men and have tasted human flesh".
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17 1190 Throughout most of human history, the "slaver's necklace," a coffle of chained beauties, was a familiar sight.
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18 30 To be sure, the reader familiar with Gorean conventions might have noted that Ellen, in her understandable unease, having been discovered, though through no obvious fault of her own, in what might seem a dalliance, or a laxity in her duties, had responded to Canio with the phrase 'my Master'.
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18 208 What would my ideological sisters say if they could see me here, in Ar, a naked slave! I am pleased to be such! Let them cry out in anger, in scorn, in contempt! I would not give the peel of a larma for all that they might think! But see if you, dear, righteous sisters, would behave any differently,...
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18 280 Ellen was quite familiar with that object.
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20 297 It was not the sign of Cos, familiar to her from Ar.
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20 1030 Saddle tharlarion, as has been noted, were familiar components of the march and camp.
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21 17 Whereas nudity is certainly not unknown amongst slave girls, and is relatively familiar, even publicly, and masters often keep their slaves naked in their own quarters, still a naked slave is likely to be noticed; she is unlikely to blend in with "clothed" sisters in bondage, permitted perhaps an op...
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21 200 How wonderful, thought Ellen, is the chance upon occasion to do something even as simple as washing one's body! How few people realize how precious so seemingly common and familiar an act can be at times! How grateful the slaves were for this opportunity to bathe! The rope on Ellen's ankle, as she h...
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22 283 She found the vessel precious and beautiful, but here, of course, such things were thought little of; they were familiar, cheap and common.
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22 454 It was he who on this world had been her first master, he who on Earth had arranged and executed her straightforward, flawless abduction, he into whose keeping and under whose mastery she had first come, he amongst whose toils she had first found herself inextricably enmeshed, so absolutely, so simp...
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22 501 It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
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23 162 Such things are familiar enough.
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23 286 "You are familiar with the penalties for a fugitive slave," he remarked.
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26 330 It may be a culture quite different from that with which you are likely to be familiar.
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26 339 It gives her an exact identity, and an articulated, and clearly understood, position in society, a society in which she finds herself, whether she wishes it or not, a familiar, prized and beautiful ingredient.
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27 1438 Slaves are familiar, of course, with being wanted.
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27 3348 She may later learn, when she has become familiar with your expectations and desires, should she fail in any way to fulfill them with perfection, and when she has become accustomed to her boundaries and limits, should she violate or transgress them in the least, to fear the five-stranded slave lash.
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27 3418 The collar was a simple one, of a familiar type, particularly in the northern hemisphere, a band collar, about a half inch in height, closely fitting, locked at the back.
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28 330 How different, thought the slave, the dagger, the sword, the spear, from the weapons with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar.
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28 332 Yes, they were different weapons from those with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar, but she suspected that here, on this world, he would learn them, such weapons, and perhaps master them.
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Book 28. (38 results) Kur of Gor

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1 66 The diameter, in measurements likely to be familiar to the reader, would be something like four feet, whereas the container, as a whole, is something like eight feet in height, though much of this space is not conveniently utilizable, given the tapering at the top and bottom.
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1 332 The girl from the Steel Worlds, of course, was no more than an animal, but she was doubtless familiar with, if contemptuous of, human males, whom she knew, of course, too, as animals, speechless animals like herself.
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1 375 Too, there was something about the other female that seemed somehow incomprehensibly different from the women with which she was familiar.
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1 404 He was much larger, and somehow much different, it seemed, from the few males of her species with which she was familiar.
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1 482 Suddenly the girl from the Steel Worlds made a tiny, angry sound, for the other female had whimpered, and stirred, and put out her hands, as though feeling for some familiar surroundings, the edge of a bed, a pillow, a layer of covers.
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1 507 In short, she retires, unsuspecting, in the midst of her familiar surroundings, and awakens in a quite unfamiliar reality, both ambient and personal.
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1 636 Goreans are familiar with them.
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1 651 He had an active mind, and was, of course, by now quite familiar with the nature of his confinement.
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1 745 The males with which she was familiar were easily manipulated.
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1 909 On her world, as far as she knew, slavery did not even exist, or certainly not, at least, in areas with which she was familiar, and certainly not with such as she.
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1 1195 But this was not her familiar world.
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1 1238 Were men not made to be wrapped about the smallest finger of a beautiful woman? And was she not beautiful? At that time she was not familiar with how common beauty is on Gor, and how it may be easily purchased in the markets.
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2 185 This will not be surprising to anyone familiar with the same sort of thing elsewhere, say, on Earth, where, for example, natural predators, and carnivores, such as the dog and the cat are often supplied with such alternative forms of nourishment.
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3 133 "Yes," he said, "a world, one quite different from that with which you have hitherto been familiar".
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3 160 At least that is so in those areas with which I am most familiar, and certainly it is so in the high cities".
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4 12 The reader is familiar with this already in the case of Zarendargar.
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5 25 "In measures with which you are familiar," said Arcesilaus, "some sixteen hundred square pasangs".
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5 159 On the other hand, her mirror, too, had not been familiar with, other than its owner, women of an excellence sufficient to be brought to the marking irons and the clasping collars of Gor.
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11 143 Indeed, it is not unusual that one who is familiar only with free women, with their reservations, suspicions, calculations, and inhibitions, their inertnesses and frigidities, is often astonished to encounter a female slave, one whose needs have now put her vulnerably, helplessly, at the mercy of me...
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14 28 He was familiar with sip root for it is the active ingredient in slave wine.
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16 14 Such characteristics would doubtless have been elicited in the presence of a form of life with which she was more familiar.
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18 44 Indeed, often the Earth-origin female slave, as she grows more familiar with Gor, becomes acutely conscious of the baring of her face, that she is denied veiling, that males may look upon her as they wish, and so on.
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18 58 She is familiar with helplessness and subordination, for she is a slave.
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18 125 This is a common strategy with an unwary and unsuspecting line, but it is unlikely of success with, say, Warriors, or Assassins, as they are alert to, and familiar with, such procedures, often resorting to them themselves.
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18 176 The application of the "lure girl" is familiar in many locales.
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21 280 It was late in the afternoon, as the mirrors arranged the day, when, to Cabot's amazement, two figures with which he was familiar entered onto the sand.
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21 367 Cabot was familiar with such characteristics, of course, and so, too, one might note, was Grendel.
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26 110 The girl kneeling beside them, her head to the floor, her wrists bound behind her, trembled, understanding then that she was not unique, and that there was a familiar and established role for such as she on the Gorean world.
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27 115 "You are familiar with the utility of inoculations in the prevention of certain diseases, surely," he said.
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30 48 It is something with which every Gorean male is to be familiar.
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32 72 She was unfamiliar with the cumbersome intricacies of the usual Robes of Concealment, their arranged foldings, the abundant drapings, and such, which vary from city to city, but she had simulated something akin to them, doubtless with the aid of Grendel, who would have been familiar with such things...
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34 137 "I am familiar with such cord," she said.
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34 216 "In any event, it is surely not a natural phenomenon, of the sort with which you might be familiar.
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35 29 Whereas a Kur familiar with Gor, and the common, fearsome weaponry of the Gorean peasant, might have easily recognized these supposed pendants as weapon points, the smith, as far as we know, unfamiliar with such things, did not do so or, at least, pretended not to do so.
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36 7 Such things, hung on wands, are familiar targets in rustic archery.
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43 4 He, or what, to whom they were addressed, was probably familiar with the squeals of food animals.
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44 121 You are familiar with pleasure gardens, harems, and such, I take it".
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45 213 Certainly it is familiar to slaves, even to those who may not have felt it, but well understand they are subject to its jurisdiction, and its remonstrances, and even to its gratuitous whims.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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39 26 The six nested galleys had their oarsmen and captains, but these captains, presumably, though familiar with the sea, would not be familiar with the problems and requirements of a ship such as that of Tersites.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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17 145 Doubtless that is all very familiar to you, but perhaps, as it is so familiar to you, you do not much note it.
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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59 251 Tajima was familiar with the two swords of the Pani warrior, and we had often sported in the dojo, he with one or both of the Pani swords, and I with the familiar gladius.
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61 652 On the other hand, the Gorean free woman is familiar with slaves, and may have owned some of her own, is wholly familiar with the condition, and such, whereas the Earth girl is commonly unfamiliar with such things.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 492 I would later learn that the taste of Gorean men, rather as that of most men throughout Earth's history, given the evidence of mosaics, statues, paintings, and such, tended to favor the more familiar forms of womanhood, the statistically familiar woman, young, lovely, nicely curved, apparently the r...
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