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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	164	It was warm from the ashes, hard, substantial—a piece of reality.	10
2	4	I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high.	10
2	212	His eyes were hard.	10
3	99	My father's eyes were hard and seemed fixed in thought.	10
8	81	It was hard to put the key in the lock, restrained as I was.	10
12	38	The words came hard.	10
18	23	He was a dour, hard-bitten man with white hair cropped short.	10

Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	77	It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely Caste of Woodsmen do not often speak.	10
8	92	We are a hard-working and honest folk".	10
11	218	"Sometimes, Stranger," she said, "it is hard to be First in Tharna".	10
11	261	Then, when the Tatrix had exhausted herself, by some effort I find it hard to comprehend, I managed to stand on my feet, bloody, wearing the yoke, my flesh in tatters—and look down upon her.	10
15	163	The words came hard to her.	10
18	174	How long they had been under water was hard to say.	10
20	28	The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead.	10
21	58	"And she is as hard to manage as a sleen".	10
21	211	I gathered that he was not bluffing, for how could he have known that I did not know the true value of the stones? How could he know that I had not purchased them and had them set in the scabbard myself? "You drive a hard bargain," I said.	10
22	29	"Surely you wish to exact your vengeance? Have you forgotten it was I who put you in a yoke, who whipped you, who condemned you to the Amusements, who would have given you to the tarn? That it was I who betrayed you and sent you to the Mines of Tharna?" "No," I said, my eyes hard.	10
22	59	Remember once you said it was hard to be first in Tharna.	10
23	73	"It is hard to be first in Tharna," I said, and led her down the hillock, away from the Sardar Mountains.	10
24	6	It was hard to see where to step.	10
25	158	If this miserable fate were to be hers, the imperious Dorna the Proud, stripped and sweating, her back exposed to the ox whip, would learn in harness that a peasant is a hard master.	10
26	83	She, like myself, and all of Ko-ro-ba, is an exile, and exiles sometimes find it hard to call a foreign city home; sometimes they regard the risks of the wilderness as preferable to the shelter of alien walls.	10

Book 3. (24 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	207	Vika's life, in its way, had been hard, and I wished her no harm.	10
6	29	Moreover, although you may find this hard to understand, they are not thought to be comfortable.	10
7	23	Her hair had been braided and looped over her right shoulder; it was hard in the light to determine its color.	10
7	31	The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then it might be d...	10
9	4	The stones of the floor are hard and the Gorean nights are cold and it is a rare girl who, when unchained in the morning, does not seek more dutifully to serve her master.	10
9	199	In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he...	10
9	201	It might go hard with her but I was not concerned.	10
14	70	* * * * It is not hard to get used to Mul-Fungus, for it has almost no taste, being an extremely bland, pale, whitish, fibrous vegetablelike matter.	10
15	82	"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...	10
18	38	"It must be very hard," said Mul-Al-Ka.	10
18	39	"Yes," I said, "it is very hard".	10
18	92	"You find it hard to understand the love of a man for his Home Stone," I said.	10
23	38	These swellings, hard, round and smooth, seemed to lie just beneath the skin and to be roughly the size of one's fist.	10
23	54	How was it that she had been captured only so recently by the creature? And if it were true that she had been captured only recently how would she have managed to live in the caverns for those days? Perhaps she might have found a sump of water but what would there have been to eat, I wondered? Perha...	10
24	78	I cried out as I felt two long, hard, curved objects close on my body.	10
26	1	The Safekeeping of Vika of Treve It was hard to believe that the gentle, obedient girl who nestled in my arms, who had so leaped and sobbed with pleasure, was the proud Vika of Treve.	10
27	87	It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world.	10
27	100	She would extend her head to him and then with a delicacy hard to imagine in so large a creature he would transfer a tiny drop of the precious fluid from his mouth to hers.	10
27	150	With a speed that I still find hard to comprehend Sarm rushed upon Misk and after a blurring moment I saw them on their posterior supporting appendages locked together rocking slowly back and forth, trying to bring those great golden, laterally chopping jaws into play.	10
29	164	It was hard to rid my mind of the feeling that I was followed.	10
33	137	"It would be hard for you to understand," he said.	10
34	108	It would be hard to live now in Treve".	10
35	123	"Howsoever I spoke," said Misk, "words cannot diminish men or Priest-Kings—for who cares what we are—if we can act, decide, sense beauty, seek right, and have hopes for our people?" I swallowed hard, for I knew I had hopes for my race, and I sensed how Misk must have them for his, only...	10
35	148	"It is hard to understand you," I said.	10

Book 4. (22 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	40	I found it hard to understand their terror.	10
4	17	I stood at bay on the grass, breathing hard, bloody.	10
8	82	It had been hard for Elizabeth Cardwell, particularly the first weeks.	10
8	169	This does not mean that she was not worked hard, nor that she did not receive a good drubbing now and then, but, on the whole, considering the normal lot of a Tuchuk slave girl, I do not think she was ill used.	10
8	273	That alone, though of course it meant she would work very hard, was regarded as a most enviable distinction.	10
8	449	Kamchak laughed, too, so hard tears ran down the scarred furrows of his face.	10
9	181	"It is hard to tell," said Kamchak.	10
9	238	"I seem to recall," said Aphris, as though trying very hard to do so.	10
10	534	I would sorely miss my friend, the ribald, hard-drinking, stomping, dancing Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
11	18	Kamchak had not hit her hard, but sharply enough to instruct her.	10
11	253	I gathered that the ground under the wagon was hard.	10
11	389	"I have had a hard day".	10
12	326	The paga had apparently hit Miss Cardwell swiftly and hard.	10
21	289	I might have responded but I was hard pressed.	10
21	332	"It will be dishonest on your part," said Harold apologetically, "but these are hard times".	10
22	63	I clenched my fists and considered punching him in the nose, moderately hard.	10
22	88	She flung up her head and looked at me, breathing hard, startled.	10
25	389	"The Goreans recognize," I said, "that this truth is hard for women to understand, that they will reject it, that they will fear it and fight it".	10
26	526	"It is hard to outwit a Tuchuk in a bargain," remarked Harold, turning back, rather confidently.	10
26	537	"At any rate," continued Harold, "I know that he would have upheld the honor of the Tuchuks in such matters—and driven a hard bargain with the unwary Kassar".	10
27	133	It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu...	10
27	153	It was hard to read his face.	10

Book 5. (22 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	176	"It has been hard in Ar," said the man, "since the deposition of Kazrak of Port Kar as Administrator of the City, and since the murder of Om, the High Initiate of the City".	10
2	195	"It is hard in Ar," said the paunchy man, Portus, "since Kazrak has gone".	10
3	41	Those who play the game for money have a hard lot, for the market is a buyer's market, and commonly men will play with them only on terms much to their satisfaction.	10
3	137	At one point, when the Vintner seemed hard pressed, I, and several of the others, noted that his hand strayed to the board, moving his Second Spearman to Builder Four from Physician Four, thus placing him on an open column.	10
5	528	Elizabeth slapped him rather hard and he staggered back.	10
7	83	His hair was dark and clipped short; his face intelligent, but hard.	10
11	311	"Have you not noticed," asked Flaminius, "the men of this world? Do they seem like those of Earth to you?" He pointed to the guard, who was a tall, strong fellow, rather hard-looking.	10
13	11	"Not so hard," I murmured to Nela.	10
13	34	I felt her hands hard about my spine, and could sense her thought.	10
13	226	Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco...	10
15	323	"It is hard to believe," said Elizabeth, "that she once taught classics and ancient history in a college".	10
16	16	It had been a long, hard winter for me and I think I, as well as the common citizens of Ar, rejoiced in the coming of En'Kara.	10
16	178	"So," said Ho-Sorl, "the pretty little slave girl would run away?" Phyllis swallowed hard, looking down, not speaking.	10
17	303	"Ginia!" Then Virginia Kent, breathing hard, climbed to her feet.	10
17	394	Now Ho-Tu was laughing so hard that his eyes were watering.	10
18	326	Some boxes and baskets of hard fruit were stored there.	10
20	480	His face was hard to read.	10
21	284	It is hard to break or attack the picket.	10
22	208	And it is hard to say what I then saw.	10
23	155	He regarded me, breathing hard.	10
24	388	"It is hard to know what would be fitting payment for the great services rendered by Gladius of Cos, in my cause".	10
24	473	"It is hard to be Ubar".	10

Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	74	It would not be hard for the men of the rence islands, in their hundreds, to cut off escape, to find me, if the tharlarion did not manage to do so first.	10
8	530	* * * * When I raised my head from my hands I felt hard and cruel.	10
9	192	It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ...	10
11	493	If he had known this, I asked myself, why had he not spoken before? "Perhaps," I asked, "Samos will propose that we now withdraw our patrols from Thassa?" Samos looked at me, and the look was as cold and hard as Gorean steel.	10
11	534	The wax was now yellow and hard.	10
13	336	I heard the voice of the captain, Tenrik, crying to his helmsmen, "Hard to starboard!" The big ship began to swing to starboard.	10
15	782	"It is hard," I said to Telima, "to love, and not to be loved".	10
17	306	It is hard for me to believe that you ride only for a hundred stone of gold.	10
18	56	And so, then, I asked myself, might we not then sing for them, and for ourselves as well, and could there not be, in some way that was hard to understand, but good, truth in songs? I went to the tarn that I had ridden back to the Dorna.	10
18	398	Her voice grew hard.	10

Book 7. (42 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	28	Also, I had never found men, and many of my instructors were such, hard to please.	10
4	221	It was hard to breathe.	10
6	209	Yet it was hard to believe.	10
6	316	The girl struck, with her small fierce strength, again and again, over and over, viciously, fiercely, as hard as she could, again and again.	10
7	342	I loved to lie on it, after the canvas spread over the hard boards of the wagons.	10
8	289	"It is hard for a white silk girl to be beautiful," said Targo.	10
8	334	I gathered that life in the villages must be hard for a young girl.	10
8	458	It is hard to be a slave girl.	10
8	459	Men tease you, but, in an instant they may change, and their eyes may grow hard.	10
8	819	She was only of the leather workers, too! But it was hard to remain angry with Ute.	10
8	957	The journey would be not only long and hard but dangerous.	10
10	258	"It is not hard to collar a girl".	10
11	155	Life in the pens, intentionally, is made hard.	10
11	381	It is hard then not to see men as her masters, for that is what they are; and she naturally, ineluctably, finds them attractive, men strong enough to command her, and do with her as they wish.	10
11	694	Inge looked at me, her eyes hard.	10
11	721	He took a hard candy from his pouch, and held it, outside of my reach.	10
11	1045	Inside I was cold and hard, and hated men.	10
11	1377	Her eyes were very hard.	10
11	1399	I was hard, and strong.	10
11	1402	I was hard, and strong.	10
12	58	There are only some folds of canvas to serve as a cushion between your body and the hard boards of the wagon.	10
12	353	Her voice was hard.	10
12	358	Her eyes were hard.	10
12	607	It is hard for a woman to understand herself as such and not desire to serve the leash holder.	10
13	38	"Do it," said Ute, her eyes hard.	10
13	359	"It is hard to hunt in a Ka-la-na thicket," said the second man.	10
13	632	It was hard to breathe.	10
13	674	In a peasant village the female slaves are commonly deferent and hard-working, and, as it is said, and as I have been told, are ardent to thrash well in the rude arms of their agrarian masters.	10
13	935	"I did!" His eyes became suddenly hard.	10
13	1007	Is this so hard to understand? I wonder.	10
14	245	"It is hard to be a slave," she said.	10
14	256	"It is said," I said, "—I have heard—that Rask of Treve is a hard master".	10
15	602	Why should I work as hard as she? Also, when they were not looking, I placed berries in my mouth, taking care that the juices not stain my lips, revealing that I had eaten them.	10
15	632	"It is not hard to tell, El-in-or," she said.	10
15	788	"Count," urged Inge, "or it will go hard with you".	10
15	915	Before him it is hard for a female not to know herself as a female, and, in knowing this, recognizing herself as smaller and weaker, and thus to be given the tasks he does not care to perform.	10
15	1216	He saw the earrings of gold, and I felt his hands hard on my arms, hurting them.	10
15	1359	"No," I cried, "no!" Her eyes were hard.	10
16	164	Her eyes were hard.	10
16	338	His hands were suddenly hard on my arms, and he forced me back.	10
17	49	Their lives would be hard, but I did not think them dismayed, nor unhappy.	10
17	277	It had not been as hard as I had feared to be entered into the house.	10

Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	108	"Priest-Kings tore me from her," I told Samos, hard-eyed.	10
1	176	Yet I felt hard and strong.	10
1	216	"And a stone of hard candies, from the kitchens of Ar," smiled Samos.	10
1	310	My eyes were hard, and Gorean.	10
2	174	"Times are hard," said Rim.	10
2	178	"Times are indeed hard," said Rim.	10
2	475	There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized.	10
5	151	The water, many kegs, and the supplies, ranging from hard breads to slave nets, were aboard.	10
6	970	And your eyes were hard".	10
6	989	"But your eyes were hard".	10
6	991	"Your eyes were hard," she said.	10
6	996	The word must have come hard from her.	10
6	1001	How hard it must be, to be a woman, I thought.	10
7	134	It hit with a solid, hard sound, and I saw the shaft, feathered, quiver in the wood.	10
7	160	Another arrow struck near me, with a quick, hard sound, followed by the tight vibrating of the arrow.	10
8	305	It was hard to see.	10
9	152	Mira, too, like several of the other panther girls, was beautiful, but her beauty was hard, and there was a cruelty in it.	10
10	122	Marlenus' eyes were suddenly hard.	10
11	435	She was a tall, long-legged girl, rather hard looking, not unbeautiful.	10
12	168	Sometimes it is hard to tell about women, except after a time, of course, if they are slaves.	10
12	202	I felt very cold and hard, and yet in a rage.	10
16	307	Three furs I had brought back to Vinca and the other two paga slaves, that they might be comforted from the hard ground and protected from the cold forest nights.	10
16	319	Sometimes their sales are even postponed that their desperation, piteous and supplicatory, their longing to surrender their small bodies, their softness, and beauty, to the hard, strong arms of a master, may be more evident on the block.	10
18	25	Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge.	10
19	71	He seemed a strong man, hard, a leader.	10
19	160	He was hard.	10
19	207	Then his eyes grew hard.	10
19	250	My eyes were hard.	10
21	122	His voice was quiet, and very hard.	10
22	447	If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of Port Kar's penal brothels.	10

Book 9. (12 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	182	To Gorean morality many Earth moralities might ask, "Why so hard?" To these Earth moralities, the Gorean ethos might ask, "Why so soft?" I have sometimes thought that the Goreans might do well to learn something of tenderness, and, perhaps, that those of Earth might do well to learn something of har...	10
2	257	I looked again to the High Initiate, a cold, stern, dour man, hard faced, who sat in his high, white hat in his robes upon the throne within the white rail.	10
2	260	How hard to me, and cruel, even, seemed the face of the High Initiate.	10
2	327	Many of them were giants, huge men, inured to cold, accustomed to war and the labor of the oar, raised from boyhood on steep, isolated farms near the sea, grown strong and hard on work, and meat and cereals.	10
2	329	Such men, these, would be the hardest of the hard, for only the largest, the swiftest and finest might win for themselves a bench on the ship of a captain, and the man great enough to command such as they must be first and mightiest among them, for the men of Torvaldsland will obey no other, and tha...	10
3	186	It was growing hard to breathe in the temple.	10
7	60	They are a fairly hard-fleshed fruit, and are not difficult to dry and store.	10
10	54	Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,...	10
10	100	Southern girls, incidentally, in my opinion, though scarcely as worked as their northern sisters in bondage, a function of the economic distinction between the farm and city, are often worked, and worked hard, particularly if they have not pleased their masters.	10
10	108	Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde...	10
13	230	Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas...	10
21	156	He was a lean man, hard, scarred, with clear eyes.	10

Book 10. (21 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	160	They are strong, and they are hard, and they will conquer you.	10
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...	10
4	166	"I find this hard to understand," said the slave master.	10
4	277	"She is so strong, so hard," said Alyena.	10
4	379	The look was hard to read, as it was piteous.	10
8	51	The kaiila became hard to control, excited by the smell of water.	10
8	178	"You are worked hard here?" I asked.	10
10	226	I do not feel like a hard ride now, and doubtless, too, neither do the soldiers.	10
10	262	"It would be hard riding," said Hassan.	10
13	253	Hassan's eyes were hard.	10
14	632	They were hard to see in the distance, in the light, but I could make them out.	10
15	117	You must work hard.	10
19	125	The trench was about four feet deep, narrow, not hard to dig.	10
20	134	"It is a hard choice you impose upon me," said Hassan, "to choose between my brother and my tribe".	10
21	359	I thought I heard, wild, though it was hard to tell in the wind, the screams of men.	10
24	7	There was hard fighting, however, in the vicinity of Ibn Saran's own men, those of the Salt Ubar and his allies, those who had fought with Tarna.	10
24	264	"Is it so hard to understand?" I asked.	10
25	643	We were harsh, and hard, and cruel.	10
26	30	A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?" In the march were Kavars, ...	10
26	847	For example, when a woman is collared it is hard for her to conceive of herself as other than she is, a slave; similarly, when a woman is marked slave, either with an iron or by the tattoo needle, this has a useful psychological effect on her.	10
26	1004	"It is hard," she said, "to crawl well when one is fastened as I am, chained by the neck to a wall in a dungeon cell".	10

Book 11. (50 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1242	I worked hard, very hard, for I was a peasant's girl.	10
2	8	The point lifted, and the shaft of the spear turned; he struck me on the right thigh, hard, with the butt of the spear.	10
2	873	I worked hard, frightened, sweating, that I might be taking too long.	10
3	543	When a girl is bought, of course, it is commonly because the man wants her, she, the female, and is willing to put down his hard-earned money for her and her alone, for she is alone; all she brings from the block is herself; she is a slave; she cannot bring wealth, power, or family connections; she ...	10
3	765	I went back to where Eta had given me the rep-cloth blanket, and lay down on the hard ground.	10
4	764	How hard it is for a girl, stripped, to stand before, and conduct herself with dignity before, as an equal, a man who is fully clothed.	10
4	1053	His eyes were hard.	10
4	1135	My performance had not been superb, but surely I had tried hard, under his will, to be pleasing as a slave girl to the man he had designated.	10
5	57	I swallowed hard.	10
5	488	I swallowed hard.	10
6	67	And, as Eta once told me, it is hard for a woman to be happy and not to be beautiful.	10
7	389	What had she then to look forward to but the degradation of the sales block, being exposed to men as a slave and being vended in a public market; being owned by a succession of hard masters, accustomed to the management of girls such as she; onerous work and strict discipline; and the continuous exp...	10
7	956	Then, as though angry with himself, he slapped me, hard, and sent me to Eta, to be put to work.	10
7	986	Then, as though angry with himself, he had slapped me, hard, and sent me to Eta, to be put to work.	10
8	290	I had seen them about, large, strapping girls, probably of the peasants, doubtless purchased for the performance of hard labor, in their rough, white tunics, with their rope collars.	10
8	303	The days would be long, and the work hard.	10
9	147	It is a hard slavery.	10
9	153	It is a hard slavery.	10
9	268	"Here you are a work slave!" "Here you will be worked hard," said another.	10
9	276	"Perhaps I will not be worked as hard as you think," I said.	10
9	288	"You will be worked hard!" said another girl.	10
9	455	It was hard to imagine what a true switching would be.	10
9	650	It was hard for me even to carry water to the fields, struggling under the great wooden yoke over my shoulders, with its attached buckets.	10
9	874	"I am Tupelius Milius Lactantius, of the Lactantii, of the merchants, of Ar," he said to me, "but we fell upon hard times, and I, though only eight at the time, fell as well, it being my duty, caste discipline, family pride and such".	10
9	1112	It was a small, hard candy.	10
9	1238	It was terribly hot work, and hard.	10
9	2114	It is hard to wear the chains of a man and not know you are his slave.	10
9	2396	The days are too long and the work too hard".	10
9	2449	It had been only a cheap hard candy but such things are rare in the lives of most slave girls.	10
10	20	It is not hard to draw the cart on such a road.	10
12	71	But it is not hard to know the truth in these matters.	10
12	668	In my view highly intelligent slaves make the best slaves, of course, it being hard to gainsay that, but intelligence, obviously, is not always associated with literacy, and on Gor, quite often, it is not so associated.	10
13	408	It is hard to be naked, as a slave, before a woman.	10
14	56	Busebius, our master, sometimes, before ordering us to bathe and prepare ourselves for the floor, scattered a handful of hard candies among us.	10
15	25	"Has slavery been hard for you, lovely Judy?" she asked.	10
19	80	I could feel the whip hard against my teeth, lying across them diagonally.	10
20	134	When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain...	10
20	169	The candy was hard and very sweet.	10
20	589	Must I await him here, like a silken, caressable verr, unable to flee, observed in the day, chained at night? And if I were sold it might not be hard to track me, from master to master, by means of slave papers, merchants' records, and so on.	10
22	23	It is a hard thing for a girl to belong to a woman.	10
22	405	"Why would they—men, beasts—strip me?" It was not hard, in the darkness, to detect the curiosity, the suppressed excitement, in her voice, in that question, seemingly so appropriate, so innocent.	10
22	576	I struck something hard, something heavy and alive.	10
24	220	"It is hard for a woman to betray a man when she is at his feet, naked and bound," said Clitus Vitellius.	10
24	259	I felt his hands, hard on my arms.	10
26	778	Elicia swallowed hard.	10
27	666	"Whip me!" "A warrior," he said, "must be hard and fierce".	10
27	667	"Be hard and fierce with me," I said.	10
28	17	It is hard not to tremble.	10
28	434	Yet it is hard for a girl to grow used to the leather.	10
29	248	"Will you truly be hard with me, Master?" I asked.	10

Book 12. (53 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	27	Perhaps it is hard to understand why they do not permit men to destroy Gor.	10
1	134	My voice was hard.	10
2	192	Her Earth mind would find this hard to understand.	10
2	513	I found it hard to think that this was not on the mind of Samos.	10
2	533	It is hard to understand one who is not concerned with Kaissa.	10
3	27	Honor is important to Goreans, in a way that those of Earth might find hard to understand; for example, those of Earth find it natural that men should go to war over matters of gold and riches, but not honor; the Gorean, contrariwise, is more willing to submit matters of honor to the adjudication of...	10
3	1183	"Theirs will be a hard slavery," I said to the slaver's man.	10
3	1351	It is hard for us to compete with the beauties of the paga tents".	10
4	82	It was hard to see.	10
7	191	"It will not be hard to sell you," I said.	10
8	71	She could not hit me hard, for she was too weak.	10
9	124	It would not then be necessary to be too hard on her.	10
10	191	"Work well, hard and long, Tarl Cabot, oaf and fool, and man!" she called.	10
11	504	She swallowed hard.	10
12	151	The north is a hard country.	10
12	583	"It is hard to hear in the noise of the machine," she whispered.	10
12	651	"It is hard to know".	10
13	48	"It is hard not to be cold," he said, "when one is soaked with icy water crawling on the tundra".	10
13	95	"I find that hard to believe," I said.	10
13	204	"A great hunter like Imnak comes back without meat! It is just too hard to believe!" Imnak looked down, shuffling.	10
14	351	Then his hands were hard on her waist.	10
15	110	Since the coming of Poalu to the tent life had become hard for them.	10
15	372	What if I should not please him? Would he not then simply abandon me, leaving me behind, a masterless girl, a lonely, forlorn slave on a world empty of men strong enough to be a woman's master?" I supposed it was hard for one who was a slave to be in a world in which there were no masters.	10
15	492	It is hard for men to leave a woman who can be a good slave girl free.	10
15	660	"If there were a handsome buyer, I would try hard to please him," she said.	10
15	661	"You would try hard to please any potential buyer," I said, "or your owner, the slaver, would express his dissatisfaction to you".	10
15	872	It is hard, I think, sometimes, for a woman who is happy not to be beautiful.	10
18	65	It was hard to believe that we were attached, by a thin line, to that great form somewhere below us.	10
22	332	"It seems it would be hard to do," I said.	10
23	170	"I find that hard to believe," said Ram.	10
23	336	This, for subtle and subjective reasons, having to do with psychology, makes it hard for her, when she is fully exposed to his scrutiny, to lie convincingly.	10
23	484	Imnak's hand was hard upon my arm.	10
24	296	It is hard to speak of it.	10
24	301	"It is also, in a way that is hard to make clear to a man, profoundly satisfying".	10
24	310	"It is hard to make clear to a man," she said.	10
24	480	It may seem hard to understand but the man who truly cares for his slave is often rather strict with her; he cares for her enough to be strong; sometimes she may resent or hate him but, too, she is inordinately proud of him, for what he makes her do, and be, and she loves him for his strength and hi...	10
26	61	I found it hard to respond.	10
26	62	I found it hard to believe he had said what he had.	10
26	69	It was hard for me to believe, under the circumstances, that he could sleep.	10
27	172	"The ice is hard," said Imnak.	10
27	223	"It is hard to know".	10
28	301	My hands were hard on her arms.	10
28	303	"Oh," she cried, my hands so hard on her arms.	10
29	154	"With some other man in your position, I would doubtless wish to kill him, and yet I find it hard to even be angry with you".	10
30	147	It is hard to strike a man who elects defense.	10
30	269	It was hard to see.	10
31	180	These fasten themselves to hard surfaces, rather like dark, globular anemones.	10
31	251	This is a hard thing to understand.	10
31	258	"It is hard to tell".	10
32	173	"What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ...	10
33	78	"I hold no hard feelings toward you," said Imnak.	10
35	446	How different such women are, I thought, hard, cruel, calculating, cunning, ambitious operatives, from the more typical women brought to Gor, soft, supine, vulnerable, unconscious, naked, in slave capsules, an identification anklet locked on their left ankle, women selected with different objectives...	10
38	98	"I will try so hard to be pleasing to you," she said.	10

Book 13. (44 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	130	"I hear that you have worked hard to perfect the tile dance," said Samos.	10
2	273	It was not hard to understand its import.	10
3	139	She swallowed hard.	10
4	511	I think she had never been struck that hard before.	10
4	521	"I am sorry I struck you as hard as I did," I told the girl I had last struck.	10
4	526	Slaves, of course, may be struck as long and as hard as one wishes.	10
5	50	"Things are hard for her," I told Sasi.	10
5	175	I saw a tiny movement in her hands, on her thighs, as though she would turn them, exposing the palms to me, but then she pressed them down her thighs, hard.	10
5	674	She has been worked hard and is tired.	10
6	206	It was hard to fault him.	10
11	354	His face seemed refined, but his eyes were hard, and piercing.	10
12	267	It is hard for her, in such circumstances, not to see them as her masters and herself, before them, as an exposed slave.	10
13	774	"It is hard to know about those things.	10
14	84	"It is hard to be a man," I said, "until one stands in a relation to a woman.	10
14	85	And, I suppose, it is hard to be a woman until one stands in a relation to a man".	10
14	352	"Do you find that hard to believe?" I asked.	10
14	412	She swallowed hard.	10
14	505	"It is hard to explain," she said, shuddering.	10
14	731	"It is a hard business on which I embark," I told her.	10
15	332	"These are hard times," said the officer.	10
22	12	I thrust the shovel again down, hard, into the mud at my feet.	10
23	22	I found it hard to take my eyes from them.	10
24	356	He looked down at her, his hands hard on her arms.	10
27	238	Many Goreans, even those educated to the second knowledge, that afforded the higher castes, find it hard to believe that the delicious Earth women who show up in their markets could possibly have been free on their native world.	10
29	154	"The day will be long and hard tomorrow".	10
29	194	She swallowed hard.	10
32	128	How desirable they are! What red-blooded man would not wish to own them? * * * * The day had been long and hard.	10
32	162	Even during the heat of the day it is hard to find suitable fuel.	10
32	238	It is hard not to be reminded of the columns in one of the great, shaded temples of Initiates, as in Turia or Ar.	10
32	879	I turned about, facing him, and knelt down, on the hard, broad stone of the terrace.	10
32	945	'Think hard,' said he.	10
33	127	It is hard for a woman to be more beautiful than when she dances her beauty as a slave before masters.	10
34	17	Even in the open, as I was, in a clearing among trees, it is hard to use one's spear to its best advantage, the animal stays so close to you and moves so quickly.	10
34	284	"It is hard to talk with you about these things," she said.	10
34	470	Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...	10
34	647	Indeed, it was hard to believe that she had not had training.	10
34	810	Some masters may reward a hard-working girl with a lovely name; others may torment a slave who has been insufficiently pleasing with a cruel or ugly name.	10
34	833	It was hard to see her in the light.	10
37	7	This is hard for a woman to conceal.	10
48	266	It is hard for them to wear their collars in their own city.	10
51	36	"It is hard to know what men like," said Janice.	10
51	109	It is hard to be clad as a female slave and not feel, acutely, the sensitivities, desires, needs, hopes, and vulnerabilities of the female slave.	10
53	45	"How hard it is for two who do not share caste to understand one another," he said.	10
57	128	It was hard to blame them for the oar of a river galley is normally drawn by a strong man.	10

Book 14. (21 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	463	It is hard to explain.	10
1	918	"But it is late now, and it may be hard to find another cab.	10
3	115	They were cruelly hard, uncompromising, dominating.	10
3	367	Is it so hard, I wonder, to be a man.	10
5	63	Yet it was hard not to see her as a girl, and a slave.	10
5	82	Tela, being a woman, could not strike me overly hard with the whip.	10
7	441	Perhaps that is hard for those of Earth to understand.	10
7	750	"I find that hard to believe, Master," she said.	10
11	199	"Your life as a slave must have been hard," I said.	10
11	548	"I suppose that it is not hard to tell that, if it is true," she said, "when one is clad as a Gorean slave girl".	10
12	317	I swallowed, hard.	10
13	481	It was hard for me to take my eyes off the beauty.	10
18	19	I did not regain consciousness until, painfully, I was aware of being thrown upon a hard surface.	10
18	188	We had worked hard, the last two days, preparing the stables and the animals for the inspection of the mistress.	10
19	214	She would soon learn that if she was to be "punished," so to speak, she would have to work long, and hard, and well, to earn her "punishment".	10
19	215	Their lives are hard.	10
21	312	It is hard to keep one's hands off a female slave.	10
27	295	"Why do you seek her?" "These are hard times," said Miles of Vonda.	10
27	521	As responsive as she was as a free woman, it was hard to even conjecture what her responses would be if she were made a female slave.	10
32	277	It is hard to know about such things.	10
34	166	It would probably be hard for a woman of Earth to understand how a mere slave girl, nothing but a commodity in a snatch of silk and a light, lovely, narrow, locked collar, could be so admired and prized.	10

Book 15. (27 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	16	"Where is Oneander?' I asked, my eyes hard.	10
1	89	It was hard for me to believe that she was really from Earth.	10
1	108	It was hard to imagine that she was from Earth.	10
1	309	"Does that horrify you? Does that scandalize you? Does it startle and discomfort you, does it so dismay you, does it seem so hard to comprehend, that a woman from Earth could be sexually excited, that she could have sexual desires, that she could feel helpless and frustrating passion, that she could...	10
1	351	It is hard for a woman to be happy and not beautiful.	10
1	472	"It is hard for me to think of you as a girl from Earth," I said.	10
4	482	It is hard to know.	10
7	113	I work hard.	10
8	27	I swallowed hard.	10
8	126	"I bear you no hard feelings for Port Cos," he said.	10
8	158	I swallowed, hard.	10
11	147	"I find that hard to believe," she said.	10
11	226	It is hard to be a woman on Earth".	10
11	228	"But it is not hard, Master, on Gor," she smiled.	10
11	304	"It is hard to believe that you are from Earth," I said.	10
11	349	It is always hard to know the truth and pretend not to believe it.	10
19	81	"He has had a rather hard day already," I said, putting in a word on the thief's behalf.	10
21	46	"It is hard to forget the little slut," I said.	10
21	264	"It is hard being a slave girl," I told her.	10
23	371	"She is trying hard to improve her skills," he said.	10
24	524	"Oh, Master," she sobbed, "Master!" My hands were again hard on her arms.	10
26	46	"It would be hard to steal you," I smiled.	10
26	112	"I try so hard to please him".	10
26	139	"He has fallen on hard times," she said.	10
30	383	"It is sometimes hard to be a slave," said one of the girls.	10
32	5	Each, in the opinion of Jandar, had not tried hard enough to outdo the other in addressing themselves to his pleasure.	10
33	85	"I find that hard to believe," said Callimachus.	10

Book 16. (25 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	36	"In the press of battle," said Callimachus, "it is sometimes hard to be aware of all that transpires".	10
3	53	"Hard to starboard!" cried Callimachus.	10
5	116	"To starboard, hard to starboard!" cried an officer.	10
9	93	"Helmsmen, hard to starboard! Oar Master, full stroke!" "Full stroke!" called the oar master.	10
9	311	"While we have been hard at work, moving the Tuka, it seems you have been trying chain luck".	10
13	32	I felt the steel, hard and narrow, in my back.	10
17	531	It was hard to believe that this ready, eager, pleading slave was the former Miss Henderson.	10
17	697	Doubtless it is hard, I thought, to be a slave girl.	10
17	828	"It is perhaps hard for Master to understand," she said.	10
17	915	It is hard for a woman to be happy and not beautiful.	10
18	520	And it is hard to find the bits of food on the floor.	10
18	563	That would doubtless be hard for her to accept, but it was true.	10
19	217	"And Master did not strike me as hard as he might have!" She drew in a deep breath, and put her head back, delightedly.	10
19	414	Is that so hard to understand? Who, honestly, would not want to own such a woman? Who, honestly, would not want such a beauty, such a wench, in his collar? And so, naturally, these are the sorts of women slavers seek.	10
19	562	The future is hard to read".	10
19	574	"It is hard to speak to you when I am stripped and kneeling!" "Our realities have now changed," I said.	10
19	960	On the other hand, it is hard to tell, for Goreans tend to favor the natural female.	10
19	1268	"It has been hard on her," I said.	10
20	617	In any event, collars are not hard to come by, on Gor.	10
20	767	His eyes then grew hard.	10
20	871	I did not find it hard to understand that she might have come to the casual attention of a Gorean slaver.	10
20	1391	"I beg to be kept in a full, and hard, slavery," she said, looking up at me.	10
20	1765	It would be hard, I think, to wear a man's collar, and be so fully in his power, so dominated, so helplessly so, and not begin to be curious about him, and begin to find him of interest, and desirable.	10
20	1873	It is hard, of course, for the slave not to find the master attractive, and the master, of course, finds the slave desirable.	10
20	2110	"The kennel is cold, and hard," she said.	10

Book 17. (20 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	58	I find it hard to believe that their translators would be prepared to deal with any one of those languages, let along several of them".	10
2	200	One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no...	10
2	204	He wishes to see, fully and clearly, and preferably at his own pace, and leisure, what it is for which he is considering putting out his hard-earned money.	10
3	181	These symbols of, and expressions of, nature, are not hard to read.	10
7	127	"I find it hard to believe that you have been sent forth to solicit business, the evening being such as it is, for the tavern of Randolph".	10
8	813	Ginger looked down, swallowing hard.	10
9	41	My goods, substantially, consisted of blankets, colored cloths, ribbons, mirrors and beads, kettles and pans, popular in the grasslands, hard candies, cake sugar and chemical dyes.	10
10	60	I swallowed, hard.	10
11	174	"Is this so hard to understand?" asked Ginger.	10
11	229	Several of the girls swallowed, hard.	10
13	503	It was hard for me to do other in their presence than speak softly.	10
13	518	"That is hard to believe," she said.	10
13	1332	"You may find this hard to grasp now, but most girls, as you will learn, once they discover its authenticity and inescapability, blossom joyously, submitted, in their bondage; in it they occupy their place in nature; in it, subject to the authority and power of strong men, owned and mastered uncompr...	10
13	1802	"I think it would be hard to be a slave and not love one's master," she said.	10
14	235	It is hard for a man to subdue and bind a naked woman without wanting her.	10
14	931	Before he left Grunt gave him some hard candy and a fine steel knife.	10
14	1241	"It is hard to tell about such things".	10
17	750	I feared that hard labors and degradation would be mine.	10
19	187	Doubtless she would be worked hard and used much.	10
19	746	"It is not so hard to understand," said Cuwignaka.	10

Book 18. (27 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	20	My hands were hard on the upper arms of Pimples.	10
7	85	This practice seems to say, "Ho, this was a woman of the enemy! I brought her to my camp naked, on a rope, like a kaiila! I ran her hard beside my beast! She is rested now.	10
7	134	She swallowed, hard.	10
7	425	"I think she has had a hard day," he said.	10
7	627	"I find that hard to believe," said Hci.	10
7	824	Cuwignaka, to be sure, was a very hard worker.	10
9	63	It was hard for me to forget that she was naked under the hide blanket.	10
9	282	The distinction between the tower slave and the pleasure slave, though honored in some markets, some specializing in girls sold primarily for housekeeping purposes and others in girls sold primarily for the pleasures of men, is not really a hard-and-fast distinction; it is not absolute; indeed, it c...	10
12	488	She swallowed, hard.	10
22	193	"Too," she said, "it is hard not to fall in love, eventually, with one who is one's master".	10
22	196	Bondage, I thought, must, doubtless, sometimes, be a hard lot for a female.	10
23	140	"They are hard and high, distended, sweet and swollen with blood".	10
28	84	It was hard for me to believe that the Yellow Knives, red savages themselves, could have even conceived of such a thing.	10
33	366	She swallowed hard.	10
34	238	We are often worked long and hard".	10
37	371	"It is hard to tell," she said.	10
39	395	"I find that hard to believe," I said.	10
40	743	Perhaps, if she well proved herself, and worked hard and well, and learned to lick and kiss with deferential, humble, and exquisite skill, and pleased muchly in numerous, sundry ways, she might be permitted to remain in the compound at the mercy of, and under the rule of, free persons.	10
41	95	"This is hard to understand," said Hci.	10
43	2	"It is hard for me," said Bloketu.	10
44	222	It is not hard to grasp such things.	10
44	236	Given the will of men, and their desires, there is little mysterious in these matters; in the light of the will of men, and their desires, do not many things become clear, for example, the auction block, the collar, the chain, the whip? Is it truly so hard to understand these things—in a natu...	10
44	558	"They learn their lessons hard".	10
45	73	It was hard to tell what might be men and what shadows.	10
46	119	"No," said Cuwignaka, his voice hard.	10
48	63	She lay then, on her stomach, her soft body on the hard stone, her back striped, sobbing, at Hci's feet.	10
54	108	Only too clearly did the browning grass and the cool winds presage the turning of the seasons, and the advent of the gray skies and long nights of the bitter moons, Waniyetuwi, called the Winter Moon; Wanicokanwi, called the Mid-Winter Moon; Witehi, the Hard Moon; and Wicatawi, the Urt Moon.	10

Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	306	"No," he said, his eyes suddenly hard.	10
1	390	I would play hard to get.	10
2	565	Beneath my body, where I sat upon it, the iron felt cool, smooth and hard.	10
3	648	I swallowed hard, and then tried, desperately, to meet the man's gaze.	10
4	445	She seemed harsh, and hard and cold.	10
4	497	Perhaps if she tried very hard to be pleasing some man, in his kindness, might find her acceptable.	10
4	629	I supposed that sometimes girls might even be chained in such a place, like a dog at a man's feet, or perhaps even on the hard, cold tiles, under the slave ring.	10
6	352	It was almost hard for me to remember that they were not merely ornaments to the city but that they also, in the Gorean manner, served a very utilitarian purpose.	10
6	441	"It is hard for me to see," I said to him.	10
7	203	"It is not hard to bracelet a woman," he said.	10
8	297	It was hard to see.	10
8	607	It was hard to conceive of how one could be more in touch with one's femaleness, unless, of course, one were oneself a slave.	10
9	166	"Is it hard to learn the whip dance?" I asked.	10
9	225	She seemed such an ideal woman's slave, such an efficient, bashful, modest girl, it was hard to imagine her in such a context.	10
15	228	It was hard for me to imagine that a woman might be so aroused.	10
17	254	"It is hard to imagine a slave being so stupid".	10
20	74	"It is sometimes so hard to tell about a master".	10
21	27	An additional reason for keeping to the road was that I thought, on the hard, wet surface, it might be more difficult to follow my sign, if sleen were later used.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	45	Yes, I suppose it would be hard for you to believe, very hard, particularly with your banal, sly, limited intelligence, my delicious, nasty, little animal".	10
20	226	For example, if a fellow has been sentenced, say, to two years of hard labor by a praetor, he might be turned over, for a small fee, to the master of a work gang who will see to it, theoretically, that he performs these two years of hard labor.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	769	After all, it is hard for a woman to be beautiful and sensuous without feeling beautiful and sensuous, and it is hard for her to feel beautiful and sensuous without having her sexuality ignited.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	1001	He then, suddenly, without warning, jerked the leash upward, and its leather was tight under my chin and I was jerked up to my knees, and I looked at him wildly, helplessly held in place; he then, with ease, with flicks of the leash, flung me to one side and the other, bruising me on the stone and t...	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	229	That makes it hard to get you, hard for the tarn, hard for the net, hard for the capture loop".	10
16	17	On the other hand, the surface seemed very hard, unpleasantly hard, even rough.	10
16	21	The bed was hard, much too hard.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	198	It was hard to imagine Kurii ceasing to hunger for the green fields of Gor, and it was hard to imagine Priest-Kings voluntarily sharing their world, even its surface, with so aggressive, dangerous, and territorial a life form as the destroyer of a planet and the maker of steel worlds.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
42	241	We will work so hard, so very hard, for one.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	1	Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge...	10