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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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18 149 In the great hall I could hear the fearful noise of unnatural carnage, the screams of the men, the screams of the tarns, the hiss of arrows, the wild blows of wings and talons.
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20 72 Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the Flame Death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challenged.
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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17 122 Sullenly, while the Whip Slave stood by and watched, angry, fearful, Ost distributed the poor fare that lay in the trough.
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20 89 There seemed to be a menace, an intangible fearful effect about those angular shapes in the distance.
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21 270 Indeed, from the Gorean's point of view, one of the most fearful things about slavery is that one loses one's name.
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23 31 She knew as well as I, perhaps better, the fearful power of the Priest-Kings.
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26 124 I have learned that it is splendid and fearful and priceless.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 14 I lifted the shield, for, to my horror, in reversing his position on the chain he had suddenly added some twenty feet to the fearful perimeter of the space allotted to him by that hated impediment.
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29 135 There was a sudden fearful scream of odor from the signal glands of the Priest-King and he tipped to one side, reaching for me with his grasping appendages.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 54 It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points.
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2 28 The consequences of my act, if I were successful, were too complex and fearful to calculate, the factors involved being so numerous and obscure.
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21 345 The tolling of the alarm bars was now fearful throughout the city.
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21 359 The metal net that depended from his helmet had been thrown back and his eyes and face were fearful to behold.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 43 After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood.
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15 411 Surely to come to this place, the house of his enemy, must have been a last recourse in some fearful set of events, to throw himself on the mercies of Cernus, claiming Caste Sanctuary.
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18 425 I returned to him; beneath the iron on his ankles and wrists, and on his throat, there were scars, like white bands, pale shadows of the dark metal; it would take months to form such scars, superseding the fearful sores that must first have been inflicted.
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20 378 Sura did not draw back from that fearful, grotesque countenance that faced her.
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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7 414 I suddenly understood, as I had not before, how on Earth my position and my wealth had created an aura about me, that made lesser people respect me and move aside when I wished to pass, that made them deferential to me, eager to please me, fearful should they fail to do so.
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7 424 Surely I would prefer to be owned by a woman, perhaps to be her serving slave, to brush and comb her long hair, to dress her, to adorn her, to fetch her cosmetics, to carry her messages and run her errands, but then I realized I did not want that at all! I did not want to be owned by a woman! But wh...
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9 341 Writhing, enraged, but fearful, eyes blazing, dancing, they fell back before her.
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10 586 So I dared not kneel now with the fearful presumption of the pleasure slave, that of a girl whose very kneeling position makes clear that she is expected to be of interest to men.
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11 1015 How fearful! I feared I might become such that I would not for the world relinquish my condition, my state, my bondage, that my bondage would become more precious to me by far than my freedom had ever been.
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12 144 How fearful they appeared, in skins, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, with their hunting spears.
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15 1076 The psychological impact of this, the sudden, fearful sense of vulnerability, of helplessness, of exposure, even for a slave, is considerable.
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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11 315 Sometimes, when a city is being sacked, high-born free women, fearful of falling into the hands of chieftains of the enemy, have themselves branded and collared, and don slave tunics, and mix with their own slave girls, to prevent their identity from being known.
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12 165 How strange and wonderful women are! How bondage exalts and levels them! To so many so alien are their inner selves and needs, how denied and feared! Some must learn ropes and the whip, and fearful obedience, before they crawl eagerly, gladly, begging, to the slave ring.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

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7 38 The ax of Torvaldsland is one of the most fearful of the weapons on Gor.
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14 151 Kurii themselves, axes like sheets of iron rain, shattered that fearful throng, splitting it into hundreds of screaming fragments of terror.
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15 69 This was the boldest and most fearful probe of the Kurii of the ships, directed toward humans but doubtless, in fact, a testing of the will and nature of Priest-Kings, their true foes.
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15 186 It is also, in its fearful way, beautiful.
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17 51 Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer o...
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Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 797 Was this so fearful for a woman, I wondered, for a real woman, a natural woman, a feminine woman? Could they truly believe biology, and millions of years of evolution, were socially constructed artifacts that might be swept aside with impunity, without consequences, in order to promote self-serving ...
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17 93 His then would be the fearful burdens of autonomy, of freedom.
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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11 151 There is something fearful about being locked within, as a slave.
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12 209 "We are not so fearful, Master," I said.
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12 249 Women and men are identical; this is the defensive thesis of weak, fearful men.
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24 94 My mien, I gathered, whether it was too feminine, too fearful, or too loving, did not suggest that of a traitress.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 925 I thought she might have a tendency at present to be a bit short-tempered or nasty, perhaps having been raised in too luxurious or pampering a background, or from obtaining her way too frequently or too easily, perhaps from fearful domestics or indulgent parents, but I effected nothing critical.
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15 324 "And then, one day, on a platform in the Sardar, I learned that it was not a simple dream, but that it had been a dream to which there corresponded a fearful reality".
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15 720 "What a fearful thing it is to be a slave girl, and what a wonderful thing," she said.
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23 224 "There is another possibility, a fearful one," said Ram.
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25 25 We stood small in the midst of incredible and fearful geometries.
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37 12 The lips drew back, exhibiting the Kur's fearful sign of pleasure.
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Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

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14 449 "How fearful," she said.
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14 506 "Suddenly, for a fearful moment, I saw myself as incredibly beautiful, as beautiful as I might someday be, but the beauty was not the cool and formal beauty of a free woman, something I can understand, but the hot, sensuous, helpless beauty of an owned slave, and I was the slave! And, too, for a mom...
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14 680 "I think there may be a fearful corollary to what you have said.
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18 280 "To truly see a Ubar," I said, "to look into his heart can be a fearful thing".
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27 190 Even to the most brilliant of them their transition will seem as mysterious and inexplicable, as magical and fearful, as it might to a paleolithic savage, or a dog or cat.
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27 209 For the first time in their lives they, these beautiful, vulnerable, captive, chained females of Earth, have looked into the eyes of a virile, powerful, untamed male, one not crushed and diminished by the machinations of a society pathologically fearful of nature.
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32 699 Sometimes under the blows or in fearful anticipation of them she twisted or changed position, once sitting, sometimes crouching, once on her stomach; most of the blows were across her back, but two had been delivered frontally, and two to her left side, and one to her right side.
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48 275 And so, too, in fearful desperation, too trying to maintain her footing, her hands braceleted, too, behind her, fearfully, tearfully, supplicatingly sought the canoe her fellow slave, the terrified, distraught dark-haired girl.
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Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 250 "But I am fearful of the nature of my femininity," she said.
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7 210 Always should one be true to the images and lies of others, fearful ones, weaklings unable to be strong themselves, whose safety lay in the bleeding and tricking of more dangerous beasts.
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9 48 Can you imagine how fearful that might be, if one turned on you?" The second one shuddered, but I thought with pleasure.
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11 219 "You seem troubled, fearful".
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11 674 The sound was fearful.
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12 10 Were those of Earth really so ashamed and fearful of their bodies as such garments suggested, I wondered.
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12 273 "Regard him," said the Lady Tendite, "a fearful slave, awaiting your command".
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13 591 "Fearful slave," I said, angrily.
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18 88 "Did you see how furtive she was," he asked, "so fearful of discovery?" "Yes, Master," I said.
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18 153 Thus, when he is in the presence of his Mistress, she in such a habit, he becomes fearful and ill at ease.
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20 121 Slave girls pattered behind, hoping for another look, but fearful now, away from the gate, of jostling free persons.
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24 120 All honor to the free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensat...
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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11 356 Can the human reality, in the fullness of its truth, be truly so fearful a thing.
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11 581 "To look upon truth, openly," I said, "could be a fearful thing".
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13 138 "Why do you let others, the petty and resentful, the fearful and inadequate, legislate for you in this sphere?" "I do not know," I said.
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22 132 I recalled the lovely, preoccupied, fearful, inhibited, conforming Miss Henderson.
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22 242 I saw hundreds of men, fearful, milling about, with no one to lead them.
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22 245 Men, unprotesting, fearful, saw their properties purloined and burned.
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24 407 I am fearful.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 304 In their native environments they encounter few but psychologically and sexually crippled men, men whose merest intuitions of their blood rights are likely to be productive of conditioned, internally administered shocks and anxieties, or externally administered sanctions of censorship, suppression, ...
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8 322 Translated to Gor, encountering true men in large numbers, in overwhelming numbers, so different from the crippled males of Earth, finding themselves in an exotic environment, and participating in a culture markedly different from their own, and in many respects both fearful and beautiful, and found...
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15 44 "And never before," said Callisthenes, "have the cowards of Victoria had this much reason to be so fearful.
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17 266 She, confused and fearful, as a consequence of that interview, it seemed, had begun to sense her femininity, had begun to sense that she had value of a sort, that she might be lusciously special in a way she scarcely dared to recognize, and feared to contemplate, that she might be such that men migh...
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17 276 Was that so terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that.
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17 850 Far more fearful it is to be ignored or neglected, for then one fears one may have lost his love.
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20 985 Sometimes, when one sees a fearful girl refusing the smallest of sweets and exercising, almost in desperation, one may suspect, in amusement, that the day on which her master plans to check her measurements is not far distant.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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8 1034 She seemed to me shy, virginal, timid, bookish and fearful of men.
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13 62 That simple phrase had doubtless on many occasions, though not always, saved many stripped, collared slaves from fearful punishments.
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17 182 The most fearful things, I think, happened with the larger wagons, those with the families, to the west.
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17 289 These men were all hideous, and fearful, in their paint and feathers.
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17 688 "Better a collar in the cities," she said, "better to be abused and sold from a public platform, better to be a slave girl fearful and obedient at the feet of her master".
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Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 243 It is, moreover, the word for the dress of a white woman and, in this, given the contempt in which the proud red savages hold white females, commonly reducing them to fearful, groveling slaves, utilizing them as little more than beasts of burden and ministrants to their will, in all respects, it pos...
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6 67 The force of even a single kailiauk, with its speed and weight, can be a fearful thing.
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7 731 "Slaves are so fearful," said Bloketu.
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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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12 571 "That was not so fearful now, was it?" I asked, drawing back.
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12 605 "There are many slaveries," I said, "and some are doubtless quite fearful and unpleasant".
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14 103 Truth is not fearful and weak".
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16 8 "I am so happy!" "Why are you not in the herd?" I asked, fearful for her.
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28 338 A fearful pattern had suddenly emerged.
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30 38 They are themselves objects fearful with power.
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30 76 "Such things would surely be fearful and invincible medicine helpers," said a man, shuddering.
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43 352 She is also, after having been in a sack for a time, likely to be extremely grateful to he who releases her and very fearful that he might, if displeased with her, return her to it.
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47 128 Like a dark streak, vengeful and fearful, the great black tarn clove the skies.
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54 225 "I was so fearful that he would not buy me," she said.
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Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 19 But why, then, if he were so wary of them, or fearful for my safety, had he wanted to come to this portion of the wall? It was he who had suggested that we come this close to those fearful monsters.
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6 296 I was not a slave at his feet, half naked in a collar, fearful of his whip, piteously suing for the least sign of his favor.
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6 594 I was in love with the Gorean world, though I found it in some ways rather fearful, primarily, I suppose, because it permitted female slavery.
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6 775 Its proximity to those fearful tarns, only feet away, had been unsettling.
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7 241 I did shudder, for a moment, at the thought of what it would be to be truly in such bonds, but then I hastily dismissed such fearful and unsettling thoughts from my mind.
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8 565 How categorical, how fearful, how absolute such a thing would be! Yet I longed for it.
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16 86 I had run and walked until perhaps noon, and had then, fearful of discovery, hidden near a small pool in a brake of ferns until nightfall.
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18 121 How fearful it would be, I thought, to say such words and know that they were true, that one did belong, fully, to a man.
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21 70 Toward morning the rain stopped and I, fearful of discovery as it grew lighter, left the Argentum road.
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23 290 Too, no longer now need I forage for food and shelter as an ignorant, naked fugitive, often fearful, miserable, cold and hungry.
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26 236 Indeed, one of the fearful things that can occur to her, if she is captured or enslaved, is that she is likely to be "face-stripped," as the saying is, that the delicacy of her facial beauty will be revealed, that her features will be disrobed, literally exposed to public view.
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30 1 Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus "Why are you fearful?" asked Claudia.
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32 297 How fearful I was now.
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34 54 Doubtless the symbolism in this goes far beyond what might be suggested in mere words, for it is fundamental and primal, a thing beyond words, a thing having to do with biology and natural rightfulness, with evolutionary selections and justifications, to be sure, expressed within the aesthetically s...
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36 432 The strong man can be bound only by himself; surely the weak and fearful, and hating, know that, and that is why they are so desperate to divide him, and make him of himself his own captor, and prisoner, and his own worst enemy.
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Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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1 477 "Do you not know you are a slave? Do you not know you are owned?" A wild look, one of sudden, fearful insight, came over the face of the dancer.
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6 100 For a Gorean girl that she is now, suddenly, no longer entitled to facial veiling, unless it pleases the master to grant it to her, is one of the most fearful and significant aspects of her transition into bondage.
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6 161 "Last year I did not have one, admittedly, due to some fearful inadvertence," admitted Boots, "but I would not risk that twice at the Sardar Fair.
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15 16 Rowena, Lady Telitsia and Bina knelt in terror to one side, slaves, fearful in the presence of free persons, trembling in the face of this sudden invasion of the camp.
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16 12 She looked up at me, gasping, fearful, one knee raised, the palms her hands facing down.
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16 1102 The informed slave, perhaps once a free woman who has some comprehension of the game, may thus observe fearfully the careful processes that will determine her disposition; and even the uninformed slave, such as Bina, who in her fearful, agonized observation of the board may understand next to nothin...
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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12 20 Is the instant one waits, that instant of fearful reconnoitering, that instant in which one hopes to convince a foe that one is temporarily harmless, an instant of loss, or of gain? Does it grant him his opportunity, or does it obtain you yours? Much depends on the actual situation.
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13 65 How fearful they had been this morning to learn that the city had now a new master.
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24 596 "How fearful you were," he said, "that you might not receive your dues, your just deserts".
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26 552 One whimper, a fearful whimper, in misery.
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26 2038 To be sure, a girl is likely to be much more wary, and fearful, and docile, when the ring is at the back.
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Book 22. (11 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 232 I danced for some time, lost in my delights, and I danced, or tried to, as would have, as I had planned, a mere slave, needful and fearful, before those who held over her the power of life and death, before her masters.
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3 292 I was fearful of precipitously flinging myself into the arms of a man.
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4 267 I was then suddenly fearful.
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6 327 How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination of the natura...
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9 313 On my own world I was a modern woman, of sorts, independent, and free, and with political power, particularly with fearful, cringing men.
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9 314 But here men were not fearful and cringing.
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9 393 Then again I was awkward and fearful, and only an Earth girl, miserable, confused and terrified, cringing in the sawdust of a slave block on an alien world.
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11 365 Tupita and Sita, similarly, rendered immediate, fearful obeisance.
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11 943 Suddenly in my dance it seemed I was a virgin, reluctant and fearful, terrified in the reality in which she found herself, but knowing she must respond to the music, to those heady, sensuous rhythms, to the wild cries of the flute, to the beating of the drum.
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17 132 In the third a fearful battle was in progress.
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34 632 "I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, and am despera...
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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18 364 She quickly knelt, as though fearful of displeasing him.
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23 238 Other women are encouraged to appear terrified, or fearful.
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23 257 "I suppose that perhaps, as you are slaves, but new slaves, it might be required that you adopt an attitude of apprehensive ambiguity, of informed trepidation, of fearful uncertainty, as you have some concept of what it is to be a slave, and are being carried into a new bondage".
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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29 98 His grip, never weak as far as I knew, judging from my first night in their camp, must be becoming fearful.
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46 247 The girl is extremely likely to be returned promptly in chains to her rightful master, to be subjected in terror to the consequences of his displeasure, or, if not, to be kept or sold for the pleasure or profit of others, usually to serve them then in a custody far more severe, fearful and arduous t...
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Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 812 Doubtless all of them, at one time or another, had been under an excellent discipline and now, fearful of an impending restoration of such rigors, would lose no time in recalling, and manifesting, suitable attitudes and behaviors.
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13 105 "If men should become again confused, and fearful, and lose confidence in themselves, if they should again begin to whine, and to beg for authority and reassurance," I said, "the white robes will again appear in the streets".
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21 204 Perhaps in one of these times, due to no fault of Mistress he was charmed by her voice, as by the songs of the veminium bird, or again, by her grace and manner, the consequences of a thousand generations of elegance and breeding, or again, once more through no possible fault of Mistress, perhaps in ...
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24 101 It is amusing to see a free woman knelt and hooded, and then, almost instantly, helpless and disoriented, subside into a fearful, compliant tractability.
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24 179 "Not only was it an embarrassing and fearful journey, a scandalously unpleasant and confusing plight," she said, "but I could not even speak, or cry out".
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25 130 He had taken a fearful beating.
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28 59 Surely she must be aware of the presumption of this act, of the insolence, and fearful peril, of it.
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28 87 And interestingly, it seemed that many of Ar, particularly the young, the less experienced, the more gullible, the more innocent, and, too, perhaps, the most fearful of hardship, responsibility and danger, and their attendant risks, those unaccustomed to such things, those who had always received an...
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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4 598 And part of me, some deep, fearful part, longed to do so.
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4 648 But, of course, in meaning nothing, it had, in its way, in a sense more grievous and fearful than I had understood at the time, meant everything.
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4 735 Somewhat behind me, to the side, I heard again that terrible sound, that sharp, fearful crack of leather.
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7 913 Only too obviously might there be perils, and fearful severities, outside the wall.
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9 265 I was a woman from faraway, from a quite different world, a world of banality, glitter and hypocrisy, a world fearful of authenticity and truth, one afraid to understand and feel.
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10 331 Behind me was the beast, so fearful, and the man, so powerful, with his whip in hand.
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11 448 What could a woman of my world be before such men but their slave? And they would have it so! Choiceless we would serve, docile, obedient, fearful, overwhelmed.
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11 1152 The mere thought of being returned to some former master, from whom, I gathered, she had been stolen, was apparently more dreadful to her, more fearful to her, than the assemblage of fates which had just been outlined before her, those possibly consequent upon her being returned to Tharna, some city...
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11 1727 How fearful it must be for any woman to be among such men, let alone one such as I, a slave! I felt as though I might be a delicacy, one which, had it not been for a word from he in the chair, would by now have been seized and devoured.
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13 161 But of course I should have known what I should have done! Certainly I had been fearful enough in the darkness, filled with enough trepidation concerning her presumptions.
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19 144 They would know how to get the most from a trembling, fearful slave.
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31 580 Again the peasant lunged against his chains, and there was a squeal of metal and there was, as though reluctant, crying out, protesting, another tiny yielding, a grating of stone, another tiny movement, another tiny fearful slippage, of a ponderous block of stone.
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42 53 Intrigues in the gardens, in the slave quarters, can be quite fearful.
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46 279 Had he now recalled, in some fearful sense, I wondered, the putative object of his venture to this city? Had he tired of me so soon? Surely it was not necessary to kill me.
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46 549 He apparently was quite clear about informing me of his displeasure that I had tried to turn the dagger against myself, even if it had been only my intent to relieve him of his dilemma, to resolve, at a stroke, so to speak, the fearful predicament in which he found himself, to protect him, to save h...
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Book 27. (25 results) Prize of Gor

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13 117 Had he wondered what she would look like, long ago, when she was his teacher, she wondered, if she were to so dance before him, barefoot, in a bit of swirling silk, in necklaces and coins, in armlets, with bracelets on her wrists and bangles on her ankles, to the flash of ringing zills, summoned, co...
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13 730 Your expression! Are you humble? Does your expression say that you know that you are owned and must obey? Are you timid? Are you fearful? Are you apprehensive that you may be insufficiently pleasing? Are you joyful to see the Master? Are you hoping he will take you in his arms? Do you wish to be ord...
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13 749 It is so beautiful, she thought, this lovely, perilous, fearful world on which I am a slave.
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16 342 She cringed, thinking of most of the Gorean men she had met, how fearful she was of them, how uncompromisingly and perfectly she would be owned by them.
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16 1110 How fearful to be at the feet of a man who knows you are a true slave! How would he treat you? With what contempt, and lust? But, lying on the shelf, looking out on the crowd, she became apprehensive.
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17 1198 And it is on that world, Gor, not Earth, this fearful, severe, biologically honest world, so far from Earth, that I find myself a slave! I cannot be a slave, she thought, wildly.
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18 307 So, too, the sight of a place she remembers, a grassy knoll, a place behind a shed, a ditch, a stall, the surface of a long, narrow wooden bench, the floor, fur-strewn, at the foot of the master's couch, she not permitted on its surface, that privilege usually reserved for free companions, or perhap...
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18 642 Too, she did not wish to be smothered, or strangled, or suffer an unfortunate, fearful accident, for example, falling from the platform to the street so far below.
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19 635 This world is so natural! How fearful, she thought, to be a woman and live on a natural world! And yet, she thought, the thought startling her, I would not be elsewhere than on this world.
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22 713 The appearance of their stout securities had been a sham, intended to conceal a fearful truth, that the beasts had never been other than at liberty.
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23 43 The position accentuates the breasts and, given the position of the hands, is provocatively emblematic; I think that even a male of Earth, one who, if there are any such, had never given a thought to the possibility of female slavery, or even of a particular woman, stripped, and bound hand and foot,...
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24 22 Early in her bondage, although she had understood that she had been enslaved, she had, perhaps oddly, not really thought of herself as being owned; perhaps she had thought of herself as being more a prisoner or captive of sorts; then, a bit later in her bondage, but initially while still in the hous...
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25 263 "May we speak?" she whispered, looking about herself, presumably fearful of the presence of attendants.
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25 526 She was fearful, frightened and intimidated.
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25 603 To the right of the block, at the foot of wide, low, rounded steps, the kneeling slaves, chained, jammed together, huddled together, exchanged sudden startled, fearful, glances.
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25 604 Surely the slave on the block had not received permission to speak! The crowd was suddenly quiet, alert, and this seemed even more fearful.
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25 783 See life as it is, directly, in its beauty, if only for a sudden, startling moment, perhaps as men might have seen it before language, before the subtle, altering, translucent barriers of words, the invisible wall that so liberates, but yet confines and shapes, was interposed between the mind and ex...
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25 943 The female students in the room, many of whom she remembered, seemed timid, small, shy, quiet, subdued, fearful, withdrawn, but were regarding her with fascination.
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25 945 Did they ask themselves what it would be, to belong to one or another of them? As they regarded her, with wide, fearful, attentive, shining eyes, did they expect, or await, or fear, their own turn upon that platform, similarly, blatantly, coarsely, displayed.
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26 1240 But then Ellen grew fearful.
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26 1242 To linger longer in this place, this now-disturbed, now-fearful, now-sobered festival camp, would be, she feared, grievously dangerous.
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28 87 Am I so distasteful to him? Does he wish to torture me? How fearful it is sometimes, she thought, to be a slave.
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28 144 He called Bosk of Port Kar, that fearful larl of a man, drew then his blade and went behind the beast, seized the fur of its head, thus holding the head, and then, with two terrible strokes of that small, wicked weapon, cut away the head.
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30 90 Know what it is to actually wear a collar and be owned! Know what it is to kneel naked, chained, before your master! Know what it is to cast him shy, fearful glances, trying to read his moods! Know what it is to service his compartments, perhaps shackled, to make his couch, to dust and clean, and co...
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30 608 To the ignorant, fearful and weak these truths must, I suppose, seem frightening, perhaps as other truths concerning nature, long ago, the movement of the earth, the nature of the sun, the distance of stars, seemed so frightening.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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1 1300 How would the males she had hitherto known react to this, those she had treated with such coolness, with such contempt and condescension, whom she had routinely disdained, belittled, and spurned, whom she had treated as so much beneath her, to whom she had postured herself as their lofty, haughty su...
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10 264 The blonde, however, had leapt happily into the brute's grasp, and obviously the girl before him, though she had done so with fearful alacrity, had also done so with terror.
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29 11 "What is fearful about this place?" "See these lines in the beach," said Cabot.
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57 46 Only one outcome could proceed, given a position so untenable, and odds so fearful.
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61 210 "I feared it," said Cabot, "when I first heard the screams of the Lady Bina, and grew more fearful when she screamed thrice, for that is the number of screams.
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79 238 The beauty and the thousand tender, sweet, ingratiating charms of the female slave, as timid and fearful as she may be, often so effective in dealing with masters, are likely with a mistress to earn her only angry, additional strokes of the switch.
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Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 270 How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo...
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3 382 One wonders if there are secret wheels, and springs, and engines, deep in the mind and heart, which impel one to travel fearful, beckoning roads.
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5 185 The fearful destruction of the object not only destroyed it, but was such that it might have blinded one in whose hands it lay, or burned them alive.
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5 395 Too much in war, and often much of fearful moment, is "blind kaissa".
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5 417 The head remains lifted to the master, which can be fearful for a slave.
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5 969 They were soft, pathetic, and fearful.
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5 1158 Then the chain moved, presumably frightened to remain where it was, presumably fearful of falling behind, and, the chain jerking against the side of her neck, she stumbled forward.
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9 114 Once, in a fearful dream, as I would learn, she had dreamed he had stripped her publicly in the company offices while others looked on, bemused, or unconcerned.
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13 30 Surely several of these were new to the mats, unfamiliar with being illuminated in the darkness by tapers, fearful of the chain on their necks, wary of the switches of masters, women who knew themselves no longer free but did not yet fully understand what it was to be a slave, an understanding which...
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13 303 The Ubara seemed distracted, even fearful.
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19 234 "Some, less swift, some less valorous, some more fearful, some less frightened, some more circumspect, some more clever, may remain within," I said.
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23 29 As they are constrained, fearful, and unhappy, they would have others share the suffering, bigotry, and poverty on which they congratulate themselves, as though it was some badge of honor to be narrow, intolerant, stunted, and stupid.
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28 286 As a former free woman certainly the extraordinary pleasure she gives her master and the extraordinary pleasure, psychological and physical, she derives from his mastery has come as a revelation, a welcome and astonishing joy which she as a free woman had only suspected in fearful, secret moments.
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38 52 And it is not such a fearful thing, he later learns, really, to have at his feet one for whom he would die, a love slave, and one who knew him, from his first touch, as her long longed-for love master.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 335 I resolved to put into action a bold plan, one I had conceived as a last, fearful resort, if all seemed lost, to be executed before the upper levels of the cylinders were attained.
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3 678 How fearful, I thought, to be a slave, to be an object, a property, a possession, an animal, something which might be bought and sold, or given away, or, as here, something which might be simply gathered in, simply acquired.
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3 907 I am Publia, a free woman of Ar, not proscribed, but fearful, and thus in flight from the city.
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10 32 Some cities have been attacked during the Waiting Hand, sacked, and burned, citizenries refusing to leave their homes, refusing to take up arms, at such a fearful, inauspicious time.
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19 180 About us were several of the fire mountains, less fearful now.
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21 326 A hooded slave, for example, is likely to be disoriented, confused, fearful, and helpless.
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22 325 The flood stopped, and, like startled, turned verr, the enemy began to mill, and fearful words were carried to farther ranks, and men who could not even see us received reports so magnified that they must exceed the horror of reality.
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24 36 But now it struck me, and eerily, that this seemingly fearful omission, the denial of eyes, was not so much a bold repudiation of common marine practice and lore as a concession to it deeper than was easily understood.
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37 245 Where there had been warmth, light, joy, touching, and love, there was now a dampness, as of the dungeon, a darkness as of caverns, a polar chill, the coldness of fearful order, of propriety, of a vision of justice, as unwelcome as the touch of a snake at night.
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37 285 She would that Captain Nakamura had not spoken of past things, of fearful things, of things long since regretted.
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Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 47 "It must be a fearful experience," she said, "when one's silk slave turns on one, perhaps binds one and disposes of one in a small market, taking the coins and departing the city".
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4 95 I and two others of my sisters in the house, my sorority sisters, for a sorority is a sort of club, my friends, Eve and Jane, had had, some days ago, a fearful contretemps with the house mother.
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10 15 Surely it was an unfamiliar, fearful robe for intelligence to wear.
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10 150 It was a form of life, a fearful form of life, with which I was hitherto unacquainted.
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13 9 From the fountain I had made my way, sick and fearful, to the domicile, and, step by slow step, had brought the buckets upstairs.
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14 21 When I had returned, by then much aware of the enormity of what I had done, I had been contrite and fearful.
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18 648 Even the proudest and most recalcitrant of slaves, usually a recent free woman, of high caste, is quickly broken in such a device, and emerges a readied, humbled, and trembling slave, fearful only that she will not be found fully pleasing, and in all ways.
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46 141 She looked about herself, as though fearful that the walls might hear, and speak what heard.
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Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

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5 12 Surely he could not know my secret thoughts, the nature of my most inadmissible, my most fearful, and fulfilling, dreams.
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5 45 That fearful moment, the interval of our interaction, brief but seemingly prolonged, which had seemed oddly fixed in time and space, must be swept away, and forgotten as soon as possible.
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9 102 It can be fearful for us if we are not.
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11 101 How estranged from nature it was! Was nature so fearful that it must be denied, and betrayed? In whose interest was this treason? Was the biography of a world so terrible that gates must be barred against it? Were there not green fields, bracing winds, and a warm sun outside the gates? You can burn ...
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11 181 How fearful, I suspected, are the needs of a female slave, and how helpless she is in their grasp.
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14 448 "Perhaps," said he, "it is another way of continuing the game, a darker, more fearful kaissa".
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15 697 What had freedom to offer, which might compare with the fulfillments of belonging to, of being possessed by, a master? I had heard of slaves, pathetic collared animals, mere properties, who had undertaken long journeys, undergone terrible hardships, and braved fearful dangers, to find their way back...
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20 187 "What do men prize most," asked Relia, "after gold, after victory in war, after fine kaiila, and loyal sleen?" "Beautiful, fearful, obedient, docile slaves," said another.
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27 24 Who would know where they were in this dark, cold, fearful place? I was not so lost, really.
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27 57 Though I was weary, and hungry, so hungry that I was almost faint with hunger, I forced myself to go further, and further, to put every tenth of a pasang I could between myself and the kennels and chains of Shipcamp, and the great, fearful, mysterious ship restless at its cables, the purpose of whic...
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29 49 The differences between the two sorts were radical, fearful, and unmistakable.
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29 218 "They are fearful, obedient little beasts.
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37 80 Darla, I conjectured, in this unexpected, and unusual situation, was suddenly coming to grips with her sex, its slightness, its softness, its helplessness, its weakness, its sensitivity, its limitations, its jeopardy, its fearful and glorious flood of rich and profound emotions, emotions over which ...
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43 1096 "It is a fearful thing to be in its vicinity.
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48 97 Despite the fearful roar of the larger beast, the smaller animal did not retreat, but, rather, came into view, fully, parting the grass, moving through it, and, to my uneasiness, came about me, not taking its eyes from those of the larger beast, and crouched down, tail lashing, growling, between the...
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52 627 "Tersites," said Axel, "would challenge the winds and the sea, fearful Thassa, in the fiercest and most ruthless of seasons".
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52 933 How small the man appeared next to this terrible, winged monster, its broad wings restless, its head, with its fearful beak, high above the beach, moving alertly about, the large, wicked, round, shining, black eyes.
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53 50 "I bore the burden of knowledge," he said, "of knowing fearful and important things, though I did not fully understand them.
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Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 273 "The splendid officer, fearful Tyrtaios, so wise in council, so adept with the sword," said Lord Nishida, "has departed the holding, and placed his cunning and skills at the service of great Yamada".
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4 86 "Beautiful, and fearful," I said.
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10 147 "At the least indication of resistance," said Lysander, "fearful reprisals would ensue".
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11 208 "I have fearful things to communicate," said Tajima.
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11 258 It is a creature only of stories, a creature of dark, fearful legends".
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24 6 Even the roofings and walls of their fortresses, structures betokening the dark needs and sober exigencies of fearful times, are graceful, and companions to their background, not intruders.
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25 106 Will there be a next, uncertain, fearful step, or has the board ended? Perhaps his balance is in jeopardy, and he might not even prolong his life to the end of that narrow, wooden, fateful path, might not even reach the end of the board, and how long is the board, he does not know, and how many step...
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25 271 I did not doubt but what the brave, displayed, fluttering banners of Lord Yamada had well proclaimed the venue of the afternoon's fearful proceedings.
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35 3 He will thus know me for the abducting tarnsman and will publicly announce her identity, and then I shall be put to death, doubtless without great haste, and Nezumi will be returned to Lord Yamada, to endure some fearful fate, perhaps the eels once more, though now, presumably, fed to them as a stri...
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46 14 It was estimated, given the hardships of the early spring, the rigors of the first siege, the threat of the second siege, the overwhelming superiority in numbers enjoyed by Lord Yamada, and the fearful advent of the iron dragon in the skies over the holding of Temmu, that better than two hundred mer...
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53 45 Do not all dragons have vast, fearful batlike wings? In a sense then, the wings were quite essential, to convey the illusion.
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61 36 It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, freezing country b...
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61 769 How could I speak to her of warring species, of Priest-Kings and Kurii, of fabulous weapons and technologies, of a fearful contest on which the fate of worlds might hang? "You are a despicable tarsk," she said.
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61 1202 "No," I said, "because I have no wish to subject a helpless, vulnerable animal to so fearful a fate.
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Book 34. (16 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 20 "How fearful, how frightful, how horrifying!" I had exclaimed.
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6 61 Could it be, I wondered, that I belonged so? Could it be that I was a slave? I do not mean, of course, in some legal sense, but in some far more profound sense, a sense in which an explicit legal imposition of servitude would be little more than a technicality, however fearful a technicality, which ...
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8 273 How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur...
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8 376 Might not an axis be tilted, following fearful explosions, might not a core be split, might not such a world, sundered, be driven from its star, might not an atmosphere be poisoned? I supposed a world might die quickly, or slowly, perhaps by inches, almost unnoticed.
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19 58 But something fearful, something large and alive, had been at the window.
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19 66 "I saw it," I said, "outside the window, something fearful, something large".
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23 151 "You will obey, of course," he said, "regardless, and, in your service, you will strive to be as diligent, efficient, and pleasing as possible, for you are not a free woman, but what you are, a fearful, collared beast, a slave".
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33 278 This emergence is sometimes fearful to behold.
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33 571 These things were fearful, and, in a terrible way, they were graceful.
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38 55 Do you think men do not know what to do with slaves, and how to treat them? He will probably dream of you tonight, perhaps well whipped, fearful, chained at his feet".
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46 372 How vulnerable and helpless we are, in our collars! How warm, rewarding, and glorious to be a slave, and how fearful! We are owned.
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52 51 The savagery, and rage, of such beasts was a most fearful prospect to consider.
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56 194 "The prospect is too fearful".
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59 78 It was fearful to contemplate what its behavior might be in the absence of such restraints, as modest and precarious as they might be.
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60 105 The other kajirae were huddled together, near the door through which they had been herded into the fearful open.
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64 219 "That is a fearful thing to contemplate," said Kurik, from the side.
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 94 How I had fought this suspicion, the dreams and reveries, this whispering, pressing conviction that I was a slave, a natural slave! Was I such that I should be a rightless possession? Did I long to be owned, to have a master? Did I long to love and serve, surrendered and vulnerable, helpless, owned,...
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8 503 "Something so fearful that you would leave the ship?" I said.
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11 655 I was fearful of being imprisoned in a freedom imposed on me, one foreign to my own nature.
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13 41 I would visit upon him my contempt and hatred, the fearful indignation of a proud woman of Earth, whose temper was to be feared, whose scorn was to be dreaded.
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46 554 If I was a slave, why should I not be as a slave? Why should the essence of my being be denied, or disguised? Is honesty so fearful? Is truth so terrible? No longer was I ashamed, for I wanted my slavery and loved my slavery.
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47 206 "Rather we wished to sow uncertainty, confusion, and panic amongst the intruders, and then, while they were disconcerted and fearful, provide them with an inviting, undefended exit from the holding, a beckoning escape route".
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47 398 "How might he both curry favor with a fearful enemy, and obtain riches for himself and his Ubarate?" asked Addison Steele.
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Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 64 "To conceal their own identity, to mask themselves beneath a plausible, fearful reputation, to precipitate an escalation in the war between Port Kar and the island ubarates, Cos and Tyros?" "Perhaps," I said.
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3 39 "It is a fearful, terrible weapon," said Aktis.
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14 45 "How could so fearful a thing be known?" asked Clitus.
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17 418 "The fearful corsairs of Bosk of Port Kar," she said.
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18 73 That was not a matter of myth, at least to those possessed of the Second Knowledge, but of distant, remote fact, fact dating back to what must have been fearful times.
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