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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 258 The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence.
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13 40 Though I suppose this is purely instinctive on the larl's part, it does have the effect, over a series of generations, of weeding out animals which, if they survived, might transmit their intelligence, or perhaps their erratic running patterns, to their offspring.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 32 I thought that much of the barbarity of Gor might perhaps be traced to this foolish suppression of the fair sex, whose gentleness and intelligence might have made such a contribution in softening her harsh ways.
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21 98 On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave.
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Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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13 21 With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, a...
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13 31 The Priest-King, for all his intelligence, tends to be fond of established patterns, at least in basic cultural matters such as Nest mores and language, subscribing to them however not because of genetic necessity but rather a certain undoubtedly genetically based preference for that which is comfor...
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28 171 Our intelligence was vastly superior to theirs and the networks of ventilation shafts provided the quick nimble men of the Fungus Chambers and the uncanny Gur Carriers access to almost anywhere in the Nest they cared to go.
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30 192 Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops.
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 486 Then I remembered the intelligence of her eyes, her confidence, that never had she been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times.
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12 20 How was it that he, a merchant of Turia, knew of the golden sphere? How was it that he, a man of shrewdness and intelligence, seemed willing to barter volumes of gold for what he termed merely a curiosity? There seemed to be something here at odds with the rational avarice of mercantile calculation,...
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16 311 It would not then have required great intelligence to suspect that I might have come to fetch the egg or eggs of Priest-Kings.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 184 They were the women of inferior men who had been unable to protect them; such men would be conquered when one wished; their women belonged to those who could take them, who would be the victorious; hence they were of slave stock, by nature; that this sort of thing had occurred always, and would alwa...
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17 796 Also, of course, had I not even known her I would have supposed her a remarkable person, for she was said to be the finest trainer of girls in the city of Ar, and that honor, dubious though it might be, would not be likely to have been achieved without considerable gifts, and among them most certain...
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17 797 Yet here I knew there was much more involved than simple intelligence; I sensed here a native aptitude of astonishing dimension.
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19 325 About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer...
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 67 About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w...
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3 109 Their intelligence, and the work of their hands, is needed by the small communities.
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17 322 I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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1 26 My intelligence, it seems to me, was good, but even when my work seemed to me inferior, it was rated highly, as, indeed, was that of my sorority sisters.
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3 319 Then, as I cried out in anguish, I was no longer Elinor Brinton, the one always in control of herself, the rich one, the sophisticated one, she with such exquisite taste and intelligence.
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6 260 But, I told myself, I am more than their equal in intelligence, and in riches, and in taste, and sophistication.
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11 594 I found it necessary now to apply my full attention and intelligence to master the increasingly subtle and intricate skills of the female slave.
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11 1028 I would use my intelligence and my beauty to make my life on Gor an easy one.
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11 1156 My training, I suspected, as well as my intelligence, would make me more than a match for any man, even the strangely attractive, powerful men of Gor.
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11 1197 "She has the intelligence, and education, of the scribe, and yet she is obviously an exquisite and well-trained female slave".
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Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

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11 270 High intelligence and imagination, perhaps interestingly from the point of view of a man of Earth, are highly prized in women by Gorean men.
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11 963 She was a juicy slave, and one of high intelligence.
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12 12 The dominant and effective families thus take into themselves newcomers of energy and intelligence, who, in exchange for position and opportunity, when they themselves are allied with such families, help keep the families high and dominant in the society.
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13 299 The men of Marlenus are, usually, exceptional in intelligence and the use of weapons.
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Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

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11 27 Their intelligence, by Priest-Kings, though the brain was much larger, was rated as equivalent to that of men, and showed similar random distributions throughout gene pools.
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11 28 What made them such dreaded foes was not so much their intelligence or, on the steel worlds, their technological capacities, as their aggressiveness, their persistence, their emotional commitments, their need to populate and expand, their innate savagery.
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11 139 That a species laughs bespeaks its intelligence, its capacity to reason, not its goodness, not its harmlessness.
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18 514 But I was forced to admit that the wench now before us, struggling to free her wrists, now revealed to us, luscious, sensuous, short, squirming, infuriated, was incredibly desirable; we considered her body, her face, her obvious intelligence; she would bring a high price; she would make a delicious ...
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21 101 I wondered if man could be so great a foe, if he in his own terribleness, his ferocity, his intelligence, could match such a beast.
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21 158 His accent was not of high caste; it had been formed on the jetties of the island Ubarate of cliffed Tyros, where he had for years, I had learned, led gangs of ruffians; caught, he had been dragged before Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, for sentencing to impalement; rather, Chenbar had liked the looks of hi...
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Book 10. (19 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 253 The organization of native Kurii, which would have constituted a splendid intelligence probe, and was doubtless intended primarily as such, yielded them little information".
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1 602 "Its intelligence, I suspect, is the equal of ours, if not greater".
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2 157 Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
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4 130 "The barbarian," said the slave master, "is highly intelligent, as the intelligence of females goes, but, strangely, her body is stupid; its muscles seem locked together".
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5 234 The trick, of course, was to make the asking price high enough to arrive at some reasonable exchange value later on, and, at the same time, not insult a man of Suleiman's position and intelligence.
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5 241 Suleiman was a man of discrimination, and taste; he was also one of high intelligence.
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5 505 * * * * Suleiman was a man of discrimination, and taste; he was also one of high intelligence.
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7 512 If he were appropriately placed, he might then requisition such a woman, who could then be picked up and delivered to him, perhaps a woman of such and such a figure, of such and such a height and weight, of such and such a hair color, and eye color, and complexion, of such and such a background, edu...
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7 523 "I would suppose," he said, "criteria are diverse, doubtless, too, such things as intelligence, beauty, vitality, such things".
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7 526 It might be noted, in passing, that high intelligence in a female, as nearly as I can determine, is almost always of great importance to Gorean slavers.
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10 258 "That, too, is my intelligence," said Hassan.
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10 378 One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...
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11 441 Since Red Rock was an oasis under the governance of the Tashid, a vassal tribe of Aretai, of course, no Bakah, or other member of the Kavar confederation, would be likely, particularly in such times, to drop in and, in friendly fashion, convey this intelligence to them.
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12 124 The slave raiders of the Kurii, the Others, as nearly as I could determine, selected, among other things, for high intelligence in their victims.
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12 125 Their two major criteria, as nearly as I could determine, were femininity and intelligence.
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13 389 To know a Kur one must, perhaps, in the moonlight, face it with an ax, smell the musk of its murderous rage, see the eyes, the intelligence, the sinuous, hunched might of it, the blood black at its jaws, hear the blood cry, stand against its charge.
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21 507 But I counted, too, on its intelligence, its control, that it would not fire on what first might move, particularly if it were visible.
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24 61 Sooner or later, given the acuity of her intelligence, she understands what she has become, what she is, that she is slave, simply and irremediably slave.
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26 1181 Since the time of the Nest War the intelligence and surveillance networks of the Priest-Kings had been severely impaired.
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Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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6 207 "She is both stupid and clumsy, but she is growing in intelligence, and in beauty and grace".
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7 785 "First capture rights are mine," said the lad who had caught Donna, "but I am generous, and will share my prize with all of you!" There was hearty acclaim among the lads upon the receipt of his welcome intelligence.
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7 1039 "Too," said he, "the nature of your flight, and your selection of a refuge, indicates high intelligence".
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7 1045 And yet I sensed that my intelligence was indeed far less than his, and that of most of the Gorean men I had met.
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7 1046 Gorean males are unusual in their strength, energy and intelligence.
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7 1050 Their intelligence, it seemed to me, compared much more closely, statistically, to that of Earth females.
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7 1052 "I like high intelligence in a slave girl," said my master.
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7 1061 Your very intelligence makes you the more helplessly a slave".
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7 1081 She learns well, and continues to learn, in her intelligence and sexuality, how to please a man.
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7 1082 Too, in her depths of emotion, feeling and sensation, these associated with her intelligence, she is easier to manipulate and exploit".
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7 1099 It has naught to do with intelligence, but only with being a slave and a woman.
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7 1118 "But perhaps," said he, musing, "your understanding of your slavery, in virtue of your intelligence, your sensitivity, is much more intense, much deeper and richer than would be that of a duller woman?" "Perhaps, Master," I said.
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9 1595 "Have you conveyed this intelligence to Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford?" inquired Thurnus.
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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.
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12 669 Intelligence is important in a slave; literacy is not.
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13 379 My responsiveness, like my intelligence, my service and my skills, such as they were, came with my price.
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18 70 It does not depend on one's city, or such, or on one's beauty or intelligence, or such.
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19 47 I sensed in him intelligence, vanity, wealth, cruelty and power.
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19 101 I knew now, however, incontrovertibly, that this was the contact, this was the specific individual to whom I was expected to communicate the intelligence which I supposedly conveyed.
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20 62 What a stupid slave he must have thought me! I was upset, for we are intelligent, almost always, and we wish our intelligence to be recognized by our masters.
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20 63 Indeed, I suspected that intelligence figured into the criteria of acquisition commonly used by slavers.
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20 64 Intelligence, in any event, is almost always prized in a slave.
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24 92 It pleased me that the stranger had not anticipated this intelligence.
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25 234 It must be a dire intelligence indeed conveyed by the simple message, to disturb to such an extent so mighty a man.
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Book 12. (17 results) Beasts of Gor

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24 175 "How can a woman of her intelligence be such a slave—so much a slave—so fully and completely, so helplessly and perfectly, so willingly and gladly, a slave?" "Perhaps her intelligence frees her to be more quickly and honestly responsive to her deepest needs," I said.
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2 569 "As you know," said Samos, "this house is an intelligence center, in which we receive many reports.
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3 591 Intelligence is attractive in a female.
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3 922 Another of her attractions, as I have suggested, was her intelligence.
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9 80 I wondered if she would change her opinion as to the intelligence of slave girls when she herself wore the collar.
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9 81 As a matter of fact intelligence is one of the major criteria used by Gorean slavers when scouting an Earth girl for capture and abduction to the chains of Gor.
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9 86 Too, because of their intelligence they more swiftly realize the biological rightness of their predicament, though they may fight it longer.
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9 87 The intelligent woman is more apt to trust her own intelligence, and intuitions and feelings than the duller woman, who is more apt to be a naive function of the stereotypes and images with which she has been conditioned.
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12 494 "I suggest, if you wish to live, that you apply your intelligence to the task".
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15 672 Much can be learned there of her intelligence.
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21 264 Her slavery in itself, apart from her intelligence or beauty, is found extremely provocative and exciting to the male, because of his nature".
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23 181 "But intelligence," he said, "if coupled with such ferocity—" "It is called a Kur," I said.
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24 173 "Her intelligence," I said, "is fully comparable to yours, and may be superior," I said.
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24 386 "That you are a slave makes you additionally stimulating to the male," I said, "aside from your mere beauty and intelligence".
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24 401 "It is you, and your beauty, and your slavery, and your intelligence, which provides so powerful an incentive to their strengths and aggressions.
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31 76 Evolution did not prepare those of Earth to find intelligence in such a form.
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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...
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Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 285 Most agents, I did know, were primarily engaged in the work of surveillance and intelligence.
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1 565 "This is information which I have received but recently from the Sardar, but it is based on an intelligence thousands of years old, obtained then from a delirious Kur commander, and confirmed by documents obtained in various wreckages, the most recent of which dates from some four hundred years ago.
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5 38 First girls can be cruel and petty but, commonly, they attempt to govern with intelligence and justice.
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5 276 That intelligence could now be applied, now that she was a slave, to the pleasing of masters.
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6 415 Yet, as I regarded her, I saw more in her body and beauty than the mere intelligence of a collared slave.
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10 55 He, like a clever spider in its web, was the center of an intelligence network that might have been the envy of many a Ubar.
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11 356 I had seldom seen a face which, at once, suggested such sensitivity, but, at the same time, reflected such intelligence and uncompromising will.
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12 270 The relation of master and slave, of course, in a psychophysical organism, of a high order of intelligence, such as the human being, is a beautiful and profound expression of the fundamental and central truth of animal nature, that of order and structure, and dominance and submission.
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15 166 I knew him to be a man of intelligence and courage.
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18 21 This heterogeneity was surely a challenge to the ubarate of Bila Huruma and that his government was as stable as it was said as much, I think, for the intelligence of his governance as for the ruthlessness of his policies and the indomitability of his will.
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23 51 In virtue of his strength, skill, and intelligence, he was rightfully first among them.
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57 76 Adding to these things his intelligence, and his shrewdness and humanity, he seemed to me ideally suited for his work.
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Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 473 She knows then, in all her sensitivity and intelligence, that she, no more than a purchasable animal, has won his heart.
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10 218 What an affront to her intelligence and personhood! Too, I thrust from my mind, frightened, the thought of what a joy it would be to own her.
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12 109 "His intelligence, which is quite high," she said, "is that of a man of Earth.
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12 110 He is trained to use his intelligence to anticipate the desires of women, and to obey and serve them.
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12 111 The intelligence of the men of Earth is at the disposal of women.
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16 17 The purpose of this is to retain a high level of intelligence in the caste.
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16 53 Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations.
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19 26 They had, over the years, devoted time and intelligence to the training and development of fighting slaves.
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26 361 "What of me?" "You will be left here as a trussed, female fool," I said, "to be a prisoner for others, others who presumably will be less particular about the intelligence of their captives".
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34 165 Perhaps of greater interest is the fact that, despite their lack of legal standing, and their strict status as no more than a vendible commodity, no more than a curvaceous, collared property, they are acclaimed and celebrated, and relished and sought after, with gold and leather, with lust and intel...
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 343 Perhaps that is because their own intelligence, on the whole, is high and they might be bored with their properties were the intelligence of the properties not similarly high.
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1 341 One of the major criteria utilized by slavers, for example, was the native intelligence of the potential acquisition.
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1 342 Gorean men, as men of Earth seem seldom to do, prize high intelligence in women.
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22 117 How powerful are the forces of socialization! How rare the individual who has the intelligence and strength to examine inflicted orthodoxies! How few can detect the subtle encompassing walls, let alone break or scale them.
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26 248 Callimachus was a master and he had lavished intelligence and time on my development.
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29 176 I have some two hundred men in Victoria and Aemilianus, as my intelligence sources indicate, a comparable number".
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33 162 "Surely we have intelligence on this matter," I said.
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Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

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3 169 "That is a sore and unwelcome flaw in our intelligence".
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4 33 This intelligence had now been revealed as substantially in error, perhaps by a factor of two.
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6 154 The error in his intelligence on such matters must have been of the nature of a factor of almost three.
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18 371 High intelligence is highly valued in a female slave.
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18 558 This brutal intelligence dismayed me.
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19 704 "I see that you must be taught the character and will, and the intelligence and power, of a woman of Earth," she said.
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19 1015 They are subject to considerable variance, being functions of many factors, such as the girl herself, her intelligence, and training and beauty, the money in the economy, the conditions of supply and demand, and even the market in which she is sold and the time of year that she is put upon the block...
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19 1021 They then have a deeper and more active appreciation of the intelligence, methodicality and organization of the men who saw fit to bring them to Gor.
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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2 361 It has been found that intelligence, of a feminine sort, as opposed to the pseudomasculine type of intelligence often found in women with large amounts of male hormones, is commonly linked, apparently genetically, with these two hitherto mentioned properties.
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1 326 "Obviously their intelligence, and their cunning, qualifies them as rational," I said.
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1 418 I saw intelligence in their eyes.
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2 40 "It would also be easier for them to approach us than many men," said Samos, "for, from our wars, such as they, and their nature and intelligence, are not unknown to us".
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13 867 Goreans, incidentally, do not object to intelligence in a woman.
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13 868 I trust that this acceptance of female intelligence is not surprising, or disturbing, to males of Earth.
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13 1358 Each master will train his own girl according to his own interests and tastes, and each girl, in the private and intimate context of the particular master/slave relation, by means of her intelligence and imagination, owned, will train herself to be his special slave, specifically and personally".
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13 1431 "It is a tribute to your intelligence," I said.
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Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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33 321 How simple and crude, how naive, sometimes seems the intelligence of men compared to the intelligence of women.
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2 64 Few men buy a slave for her literacy; her intelligence is another matter.
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2 65 Some highly intelligent men who hold reading and writing in contempt, however unreasonably, enjoy buying a sophisticated, beautiful, literate slave girl, once of high caste, and take great pleasure in ruthlessly mastering every cell in her beautiful body; though literate, and doubtless initially con...
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14 228 He had a strong native intelligence, I suspected, which, for too long, had been somnolent.
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14 465 She must see to it, with all her intelligence and beauty, that she is her master's attentive, sensitive, skillful treasure".
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25 165 They, like other loot strewn about, robes and saddles, must wait to see who it was who would pick them up, who it was to whom they would then belong, whom they must then serve, absolutely and unquestioningly, with every perfection and particle of their intelligence and beauty.
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28 79 For example, the meretricious proposal of a spurious peace, to lure the leadership of a people into a small area, there to be devastatingly attacked, while not beyond the intelligence or cunning of red savages, did not seem at all typical of their approach to military matters.
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32 140 It is a stroke worthy of Iwoso's high intelligence".
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33 318 How subtle and deep was the intelligence of women, I thought.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 282 In him I sensed a powerful intelligence.
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6 113 "The story of it," I had told him, seeking to impress him with my intelligence, "aside from the impressiveness of it, and the loveliness of its setting and presentation, is surely an unrealistic, silly one".
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24 137 The average man of Earth had not prepared me for the virility, the strength, the possessiveness, the intelligence, the will, the power, the force, the command of the men of Gor.
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28 80 On Gor it is the whole woman who is enslaved, in the fullness and depth of her intelligence and emotions.
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34 210 In particular, note the beauty of your face, its intelligence and sensitivity, and your softness and femininity, so different from that of more masculine women, those with larger amounts of male hormones, and the lusciousness of your slave curves.
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36 438 Were they, too, capable of humanity, not a humanity defined to promote political agendas, but a true humanity, one of strength, biology, intelligence, and rationality, a humanity emergent from nature, rather than one engineered to negate, frustrate and poison her? Surely, I thought, the men of Earth...
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36 470 "Yes," he said, "you, with your intelligence, your beauty, your vulnerability, your sensuousness, your glances and movements, your bondage skills, your insidious slave wiles, the perfections of your servitude, made it impossible not to desire you, not to lust for you, inordinately, not to want you, ...
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36 1279 In Gorean sexuality, at least amongst masters and slaves, there is a respect for patience, for exploitable, meticulous leisure, for high intelligence, for attention and scrutiny, for mind and body, for craft and subtlety, for a passion so profound that it fulfills and ennobles biology rather than in...
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36 1281 Gorean sexuality has a place for high intelligence, and rationality, and honesty, and truth, and profound, resilient human passion.
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 392 "You lack the talent, the intelligence of the slave," he said.
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2 1214 "Instead of an acknowledgment and compliance report it receives a request for clarification or confirmation, and that from an agent of high intelligence and proven efficiency.
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7 144 Much can depend on the girl, on her intelligence and imagination, on the stage of her training, on the specific occasion in question, and so on.
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8 156 Similarly they lack its intelligence.
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8 227 I now revised my estimate of the intelligence of the fellow who had struck down the leader.
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10 244 But all slaves, as slaves, regardless of the level of their intelligence, are to be held in effective and flawless bondage.
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10 245 No privilege whatsoever is extended to the slave on the grounds of her high intelligence, or even brilliance.
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10 864 I suppose this is a tribute in its way to their intelligence, as well as to their charming nosiness or busybodiness.
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10 902 It would be unfair, surely, to confine that delicious intelligence merely to the Lady Yanina and myself.
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16 1092 Her intelligence, which was considerable, tended to find its most natural expression in a different domain, in the modalities of the sensuous.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 169 She must see the man as her master not in the simple sense that he stands in some legal relationship to her, which she might recognize and acknowledge, but rather as, say, an animal might see a man as its master, provided the animal also had the high intelligence of a woman, and also had a clear con...
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1 244 And it says much for the intelligence of Earth girls brought to Gor as collar-cattle, so to speak, that they become quickly apprised of the alacrity and perfection now required of them.
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3 24 The first piece of bread he threw to the woman who had been the first to unhood and face-strip herself, perhaps thereby rewarding her for her intelligence.
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15 30 In him I sensed practicality, and mercilessness, and intelligence and power.
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18 84 And as she, with her high intelligence, is swift to learn how to move as a slave, with a slave's beauty and grace, and to serve and kneel, and perform obeisance, and to wear revealing tunics and silks, appropriate to her status, so, too, she is quick to learn how to wear chains, and move in them, an...
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19 315 She was obviously of high intelligence.
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25 358 Also, although I suppose the matter is neither here nor there, Goreans also tend to prize women for such things as their intelligence, emotional depth, charm and personality.
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Book 22. (22 results) Dancer of Gor

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22 77 I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...
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3 27 In them there had seemed an incredible intelligence, a savagery, an uncompromising ferocity.
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3 536 "But you do, doubtless, have some form of intelligence," he said, "in your small, nasty way".
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3 591 "Apparently you do have some intelligence," he said.
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3 695 "She has her tiny spark of intelligence, nasty, petty and small though it might be, which, hopefully, may perhaps facilitate her survival.
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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".
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4 234 How incredibly attractive he was to me! How weak he made me feel! I thought that I was, as human beings went, quite intelligent, but before this man, before such a man, I sensed that my intelligence was as nothing.
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4 235 I sensed, as I had long before, in the library, that he, in his power, intelligence, and maleness, was totally my superior, indeed, that I could at best be little more than an animal at his feet.
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4 301 To such a man I knew that I, even with all my refinement, education and intelligence, could never be more than a dog, a panting bitch, at his feet.
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9 488 I would have to bend all of my efforts, and all of my beauty, my charm, my grace, my knowledge, my intelligence, my tact, everything that I was, and could hope to be, to that end.
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10 181 I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling naked before him, so close ...
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11 711 The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts th...
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11 1020 This intelligence was greeted with raucous enthusiasm, shouts, and the pounding of shoulders.
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13 279 I did, in fact, have great respect for the judgment and intelligence of Hendow.
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13 299 Accordingly, such women, regarding themselves as unusually desirable by Earth standards, probably have little to fear from the slaver's noose, unless they can compensate in other ways, as by an unusual beauty of features or an extremely high intelligence.
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13 722 Too, it can be dangerous for the girl, as she is usually under the obligation, at least by the seventh Ahn, if he has not penetrated to the heart of the matter by then, which is usually the case, to inform the use master of her master's jest, which intelligence he might or might not appreciate.
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14 238 I feared him as my master, of course, but I also had a considerable respect for him, for the strength, the shrewdness, and intelligence I sensed in him.
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20 200 Whereas they welcome currently lower prices on produce and greater assurances of its variety and quantities, they also tend to regret the withdrawal or loss of the local peasantry, which provided them not only with a plethora of individual suppliers, tending to generate a free market, complex and co...
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22 76 I felt that my intelligence was small compared to that of most Gorean males, but I did not feel intellectually inferior, at least generally, to the women I had met on Gor, either girls from Earth, such as Gloria and Clarissa, who had been with me at Market of Semris, or those native to Gor, women su...
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22 82 "So, too," he said, "I think that your utility as such, even with your intelligence and beauty, at least in this area, may be coming to an end".
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24 513 "But this thing, I think," she said, "is not such a beast, not a human beast, not a man in the full power of his intelligence, vitality and animality, but some other sort of beast, something perhaps similar somehow, but very different, too".
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34 532 Too, which might surprise the men of your world, we tend to favor intelligence in women.
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Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 46 "What is your latest intelligence?" I asked.
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2 130 "It is a mystery to us," I said, "but doubtless to those with access to the proper intelligence, its movements and position are well known".
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9 347 This intelligence is not unfamiliar to males.
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11 173 "What does it say?" "It is an intelligence report," he said.
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11 256 This pretended intelligence report, absurdly conceived, is intended to lead us to despair.
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15 825 Too, the hood might, concomitantly, to some extent, though it seems a little late now, impair the functioning of their intelligence network in the city.
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16 218 In her intelligence she recognizes the falsity of this and disbelieves it, but she faces a bleak landscape, a vacant, gray horizon, beyond the house of this fabrication.
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20 297 There had been no dearth of intelligence as to the desperate situation of Ar's Station, however, in this vicinity, east on the river, and south towards Ar.
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21 238 As Gorean slave girls are selected for their intelligence, as well as their beauty of face and form, and their latencies of uncontrollable passion, they learn quickly.
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21 461 Similarly, it is not her fault if other women are not as favored as she with intelligence and wealth, and perhaps beauty.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 911 "No!" Properties such as intelligence and imagination are prized in female slaves.
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3 64 I assumed he must have left the camp expeditiously, as would have been wise, lest his putative affiliation with me be recalled, and then, after perhaps waiting a few Ahn in the vicinity of Teslit, not making his presence known, had hastened southward, that he might convey his intelligence speedily t...
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3 497 I betrayed no emotion, but I, too, was puzzled by this intelligence.
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17 4 Intelligence had arrived from the left.
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17 119 In a few moments I had managed to piece together the latest intelligence, this from the north, from the right.
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32 74 That had been an unwelcome intelligence, but one I did not find it hard to credit.
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36 29 After I had assured myself of the relative safety of Marcus and Ina, of course, it was my intention to venture to Torcadino, where I hoped to be able to convey intelligence of the affairs in the north to Dietrich of Tarnburg.
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40 17 Indeed, men might have died in his attempt to contain this intelligence.
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47 227 "Your insults," he remarked, "are more germane to my intelligence than courage, that you should think to so simple-mindedly manipulate me".
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Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 279 Such things, to the softness and intelligence of her woman's heart, spoke clearly to her.
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8 284 Among such properties are initiative, will, command, intelligence, strength, and power, in short, with characteristics appropriate to a master.
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11 398 "Accordingly," said Marcus, "its work is known, or likely to be known, but it is also made to seem that Cos fears the making broadcast of such intelligence".
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12 220 "I am young, but I am a woman, and alive! Do you think that intelligence and maturity are prerogatives only of such as you! No! I am quick at my studies! I am alert! I think much! I am dutiful! I want to make a man happy, truly happy, in the fullest dimensions of his being, not a part of him, leavin...
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12 222 She was undoubtedly of high intelligence.
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12 225 How much more tactful, sensitive and inventive are intelligent slaves! Indeed, the intelligence of some slaves blossoms in bondage, seemingly at last finding the apt environment for its flowering.
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12 265 Some free women claim that this book, which is supposedly written by Dina, "a slave," which continues to appear in various editions and revisions, because of its intelligence and sensitivity, is actually, and must have been, written by a free woman.
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12 272 As to the matter of the poetess' intelligence and sensitivity, I surely grant them to the free women, but maintain that such are entirely possible in a slave, and even more to expected in her than in them.
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12 274 When a woman is enslaved, for example, surely they do not suppose that her intelligence and sensitivity disappear.
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12 278 Also, it might be noted that many women are enslaved not simply because it is convenient to do so, the ropes are handy, so to speak, or because they are beautiful of face and figure, but actually because of their intelligence and sensitivity, qualities which appeal to many Gorean men.
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12 280 Also, as I have suggested, the intelligence and sensitivity of many women actually tends to blossom in bondage, finding within it the apt environment for its expression, for its flowering.
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12 628 "Beauty and intelligence are all well and good," I said, "but the best slave is she who loves most deeply".
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22 486 I was pleased that she had had the intelligence not to act as though she had been put at the ring "bound by the master's will" because her leaving the ring might then have elicited astonishment or comment.
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25 652 Why, then, was I not better satisfied? Whereas intelligence in a slave is commonly prized on Gor, it is not always without its drawbacks.
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Book 26. (17 results) Witness of Gor

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13 212 Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; ou...
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7 346 But, more importantly, we were, it seems, women like us, selected with various parameters in mind, such as intelligence, beauty, and heat.
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10 883 This was, as you might suppose, a piece of very frightening intelligence for me.
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11 916 Not only could my face and body, my beauty, if beauty it be, my dispositions, my talents, my capacities, my intelligence, my feelings, my emotions, my service, my pleasure, be sold! My heat, too, could be sold.
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12 172 That intelligence seemed strange to me, as it seemed her voice was quite near me.
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12 224 But I think she was pleased to have been concretely apprised of this intelligence.
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13 207 Demands are placed on her intelligence.
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13 927 Also, interestingly, as earlier suggested, sexual responsiveness in the slave is openly regarded as a desirable property, like intelligence and beauty.
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13 1097 "He is afraid to go to the surface," she said, "in spite of his intelligence, and his great strength, for there even children mock and ridicule him.
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13 1444 "Slavery has many effects on a woman," he said, "It softens her, it enhances her beauty, it gives her a profound sense of herself, it fulfills her, it increases, considerably, her sexual responsiveness, it increases a thousandfold her capacities to love, but one effect it does not have, it does not ...
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14 1446 "She has some intelligence then?" he asked, interested.
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14 1743 I saw that this intelligence much pleased her.
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19 888 And you will strive desperately with all your beauty and intelligence to please them".
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22 21 The masculinity that attracts us, and can overwhelm us, is one of intelligence, power and virility, one of ruggedness and might.
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24 605 In his size, his strength, his intelligence, his power, he had been fearsome enough, even then.
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29 306 "How quickly she learns! She is clever, no doubt! Oh, yes, she is highly intelligent, but now her intelligence will have a different object, not that of seeking wealth and power, but that of pleasing a master! Scarcely has she been branded and the collar put on her than she hopes to sway me with the...
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44 96 But now I was frightened, for I feared my value to this newcomer, he who had been announced to me as my master, had little to do with whatever features or properties I might possess as a woman in bondage, with such things as beauty, intelligence, character, personality or talent.
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Book 27. (32 results) Prize of Gor

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2 9 It does seem clear that their criteria include high intelligence.
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2 10 If one's intelligence is high, they seem to find that arousing, literally arousing, perhaps unaccountably to one accustomed to the criteria prized on my first world.
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2 14 Our intelligence then, like certain other properties, is sought; it is a desideratum.
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2 18 Too, if we are selected, or often are, at least in part, on the basis of our intelligence, one supposes that we would be more likely to be more alert, more sensitive, more inventive, more attentive than might otherwise be the case; we would be likely to be better, for example, one supposes, at readi...
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2 19 One quickly learns to apply one's intelligence, per force, to new ends, in new spheres.
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2 21 Their intelligence, incidentally, seems to us to be dimensions beyond ours.
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2 22 Intelligent as we are, our intelligence does not begin to compare with theirs.
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4 274 "But consider the possibility of alien life forms and exotic, alternative technologies, life forms of incredible intelligence, say, far beyond that of the human, with, at their disposal, enormous powers, the power even to influence, and manipulate, gravity.
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11 288 She was doubtless a woman of high intelligence and exquisite taste.
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11 314 "In certain parts of the world it still is," he said, "but, more to the point, the intelligence of the ancients and medievals, and such, was not inferior to our own, and, in many respects, most would grant, many of them, perhaps the majority, were morally superior to large numbers of our lying, chea...
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11 498 But surely he must understand that the intelligence of a woman did not disappear in the searing moment her flesh took the iron, or the instant that her small neck felt clasped upon it a steel band.
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11 830 Gorean men, she had learned, prize high intelligence in a woman, and seek it in their slaves.
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13 551 Stripped of all conventional and social dignities and merits, as well as of their clothing, bereft of all artificialities, what is for sale there is, generally, assuming that there is nothing special about the item, that it is not the daughter of a Ubar, or the daughter of one's worst enemy, or such...
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13 693 "What weapons have we, we, in our collars? Our weapons are our intelligence, our beauty, our body.
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15 55 Gorean men, she had learned, prized intelligence in women.
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15 406 Ellen, for whatever reason, because of her intelligence, or her dispositions, or whatever it might have been, had made the transition from freedom to slavery with relative ease.
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16 734 They, the most extraordinarily feminine of their gender, with their lively minds, their unusual quickness and high intelligence, as is well known, love to talk.
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17 1182 How strange, she thought, to be utterly at the mercy of others, to know that you are the slave and that they are the masters, and that you must obey them, and strive diligently, desperately, to please them with all your talent, intelligence and beauty.
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19 253 This intelligence startled Ellen.
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20 976 She feared that this intelligence boded ill for Ar, and perhaps for Portus and his fellows.
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24 675 What have we to offer, to bargain with, to petition with, but our beauty, our desirability, our intelligence, our passion, our desire to serve and love helplessly and wholly, asking nothing, giving all? I feel the music.
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24 747 Perhaps my records are in error?" I think we may grant, even within this narrative, despite the possible risk of a seeming impropriety, hopefully not one punishable, that Ellen had at least average, or reasonable, intelligence.
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24 749 More coercively, perhaps, we might note that intelligence ranks high among the selection criteria of Gorean slavers, of which, as noted earlier, we may assume that Mirus was one.
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24 751 The Gorean master, you see, looks for high intelligence in a female slave.
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25 204 She was grateful to 115, for her boldness, however deferentially it had been proffered, and the welcome intelligence she had managed to obtain.
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25 748 Tell them that! Then she wondered if her intelligence, really, was that much higher than that of her chain sisters.
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25 749 The brutes, she thought, they are taking my intelligence for granted.
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26 619 In any event she must strive to please him, and perfectly, with every bit of her intelligence and beauty.
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26 955 And slavers know that, she thought, the imperious, glorious, uncompromising, virile monsters! Even what I am doing, to do it well, she thought, requires sensitivity, attentiveness, intelligence.
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26 956 Even to serve as I am requires intelligence.
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27 73 Some obvious criteria, among several others, are beauty, intelligence, and a latency, at least, for arousable, helpless passion.
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29 310 "Many men will feel a fondness for a kaiila or a pet sleen, so why not for a slave? Let yourself strive with all your might, with all your intelligence, with all your zeal and diligence, with all your helplessness and vulnerability, with all your service and beauty, for the least touch, for a gentle...
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Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

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77 20 But she has a considerable intelligence, he thought, the sort of intelligence which a man can appreciate, the sort of intelligence he wants at his feet.
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1 149 In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals to be displayed on the holdin...
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1 702 He did not understand, of course, at that time, that she, whatever might be her native intelligence, which was surely considerable, lacked speech, and for a very obvious reason.
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1 1218 She had always had her way with men, and, too, had she not sensed, though to her indignation, how he had viewed her while feeding her? She knew she was a female of high intelligence, and she was quite well aware that she was also one of unusual attractiveness.
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4 67 "He is much like a Kur," said Cabot, "and many Kurii are of high intelligence".
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5 321 The translator pronounced these words precisely, clearly, unemotionally, in accents of Ar, but Cabot could tell that Arcesilaus deemed this an intelligence of some moment.
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20 266 Cabot was pleased with this intelligence pertaining to the former Miss Pym.
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24 184 "Slaves," said Cabot, "are commonly chosen not only for their beauty but for their intelligence.
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24 185 High intelligence much improves a woman's price on the slave block".
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24 186 This is, of course, not surprising, for the higher a woman's intelligence, provided it be conjoined with profound feminine needs, the better the slave.
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26 193 "Wait, for intelligence".
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35 132 "When soldiers of Agamemnon set forth upon intelligence furnished to them, to ensnare and punish conspirators, they dared delay no longer".
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35 133 "And what might have been the source of this intelligence, the betrayed names, and such?" asked Cabot.
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40 119 "Intelligence has been brought to Agamemnon," said Lord Grendel.
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44 32 This intelligence then, usually by runners, would be communicated to rebel positions, from which countermeasures, engagements or withdrawals, might be contrived.
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44 302 Humans provided much intelligence to the insurrectionists, and even major power weapons are ineffectual in the absence of targets.
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46 2 "Intelligence is clear," said Lord Grendel, addressing his group.
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46 5 It was difficult to attain such intelligence recently, for the cordons of purple scarves seemed ever more imminent, their patrols ever bolder and more intrusive.
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47 195 "It is unlikely," said Lord Grendel, "that without intelligence he would have anticipated, and prepared so carefully for, even to the removal of guards, so unlikely and bold a stroke as an attempt on the arsenal itself".
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47 214 "Intelligence had described the security at the arsenal.
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51 28 Better, if regroupings should occur, to gather intelligence on a dozen camps, on a dozen leaders, on a dozen strategies.
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57 68 "We were surprised in the Vale of Destruction! Agamemnon must have had intelligence of our plans".
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60 3 Others, too, rushed forward, to be apprised of whatever dire intelligence might be conveyed by their scout, Flavion.
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61 48 "You bring us intelligence?" said Lord Grendel.
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61 49 "Yes," said Flavion, "intelligence of enormous, and, I fear, transitory, import.
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73 200 This is an aspect of her often considerable intelligence.
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73 204 Let her be kept then in darkness, squirming and frustrated, her eager, high intelligence deliberately left without enlightenment.
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77 127 He had, of course, gathered some intelligence from her attempt.
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79 435 "Matched?" "Yes, by a vast intelligence, one beyond our grasp".
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81 46 One looks, then, for unusual beauty, high intelligence, helpless sexual needfulness, and such".
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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40 87 There is a correlation between her intelligence and her slave needs, between her intelligence and her helplessness, between her intelligence and her soon-to-be-discovered, uncontrollable, spasmodic helplessness beneath a master's touch.
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6 22 It resembled a yellow stain, such as might have resulted from talendars being rubbed on bark, but, examined closely, given its articulation, it was clearly the product of intelligence, of some intelligence.
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5 1 An Old Acquaintance is Renewed; A New Ship Arrives, and Discharges Passengers and Cargo; I Obtain Considerable Intelligence, But Not Enough He waded ashore.
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5 1015 Several of the girls looked startled at this intelligence.
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9 146 The slave, like any animal, is to be governed with understanding, sympathy, and intelligence.
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16 250 The importance of intelligence cannot be overestimated.
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18 175 To be sure, other theories might be proposed, too, for example that warfare conducted under such conditions might tend to improve the species, selecting for, say, intelligence, quickness, agility, and so on.
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22 27 It is not their fault that their intelligence is high, their features sensitive and exquisite, their figures shapely.
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22 34 To be sure, it is clearly not the case that every woman brought from Earth to the sawdust of the Gorean slave block is so innocent, guilty of no more, say, than her intelligence and beauty.
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22 591 "More is involved in these matters," I said to Pertinax, "than intelligence, a lovely figure, a particular coloring of hair and eyes, and such".
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22 673 Her intelligence was high.
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25 58 Is not the beautiful woman, curled at one's feet, avid to learn the secrets of a house, petulant and pouting if denied, ideally suited to gather the flowers of intelligence? Is it not a natural, and simple, and innocent thing to purchase one of their smiles, at so small a cost as an expression, an u...
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26 157 Cecily, adjudging her in the light of markets, and seasons, with which I was familiar, if put on the block, despite her intelligence, beauty, and passion, would not be likely to bring more than two silver tarsks.
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27 19 I did not begrudge the conveyance of this sort of intelligence to Lord Nishida, nor did I resent Tajima being the modality of its conveyance.
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39 12 I suspected we had crippled, or reduced, the intelligence of the enemy.
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40 86 Aside from the pleasures of owning and mastering such a woman, for it is a joy to possess one, a property so intellectually stimulating, one profits from an apparent genetic linkage, doubtless selected for over millennia, from the caves and markets onward, between intelligence and sexual responsiven...
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40 93 And relish her, all of her, every bit of her, her mind and her body, her sensitivity, her vulnerability, her feelings, her thoughts and emotions, her high intelligence.
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40 97 So much then for her intelligence, and such.
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Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

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33 85 To be sure, high intelligence, sometimes quite high intelligence, was often found in barbarian kajirae, as masters preferred it in their slaves.
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2 119 To be sure, interceptions were rare, and it was suspected that this had more to do with understandings and secret fees than faulty intelligence.
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3 13 Indeed, shore-bound intelligence might not realize a mother ship existed, let alone one such as the great ship.
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3 651 Nature has made us theirs! But we have our beauty, our wit, our sensitivity, our intelligence! Have not more men been conquered with a kiss than steel? It is no wonder, I thought, that they make us their slaves! The key's teeth cut, frayed, and severed a bit of the cord, and I whipped it away from m...
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3 1194 Too, is it not easier for a woman, in virtue of her sex, to win her way with a male, subject, of course, to the limitations of her collar, to placate him, to evade his whip or switch, to divert his wrath by pleasing him, with her softness, her beauty, her intelligence, her wit, and vulnerability.
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5 162 Who would act upon such intelligence? To whom would one remand Seremides of Ar? How would one petition for, or collect, the bounty? Who is there to pay, or act in this matter? Information which might mean wealth and power on the continent, information which might put armies on the march, which might...
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17 141 Differences in price would be more commonly a function of origin, education, intelligence, training, and such things, than beauty.
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20 234 This is common with high-grade slaves, delicate, well-formed, finely featured women, women of high intelligence, profound emotion, and active imagination, irremediably sensate, tactually enlivened women, women keenly alive, women profoundly stirred by the floor beneath their knees, by leather thrust...
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21 316 The slaves, save some, kept below, were on deck, and this intelligence was received with dismay.
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23 133 "Lords Okimoto and Nishida will go ashore, to greet Lord Temmu, to gain intelligence, and prepare for the sheltering of tarns.
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26 214 And who, possessing such information, would impart it to them? If they learn of such things, it would presumably be by inadvertence, or in passing, and she, given her keeping, would have had scant opportunity to obtain such intelligence.
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27 110 Too, whereas a tarn cavalry can acquire intelligence, strike unexpectedly, cut supply lines, and such, it is of limited value against a distributed land force.
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30 142 He may well have conveyed his intelligence to the Pani, particularly had he inveighed with Tereus, or others, to permit him to accompany the flight, and had had his request refused.
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33 96 As she learns Gorean, too, her high intelligence well serves her, for her master delights in her lyrical capacity to express herself, delights in learning of her feelings and thoughts, and delights in the joys of her intellectual companionship, though she may be chained naked at his slave ring.
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33 99 "Intelligence is often associated with the intensity of slave fires," said the stranger.
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33 102 So often are conjoined intelligence, vitality, sensitivity, and imagination with uncontrollable, inevitable responsiveness.
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33 160 And she was clearly of high intelligence, and her background, I thought, though of Earth, was of a sort which shared certain affinities with that of my caste.
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36 501 This produces the anomaly that many barbarian slaves, who are generally of high intelligence, will be literate in one or more of the barbarian languages, but illiterate in Gorean.
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37 857 "Surely," I said, "you could detect her intelligence, her sensitivity, her emotional depth, her readiness, her softness, her femininity, her needs, the incipience of her passions?" "I gathered something of that," he said.
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37 858 "Consider," I said, "such a one, with all her beauty, intelligence, and depth, and how helpless she will be when slave fires burn in her belly!" "I saw her look upon you," he said.
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Book 31. (24 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 120 This is not to deny, of course, that better information might be housed in various intelligence communities on Earth, evidence which it would be wise to treat with circumspection.
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4 282 You are very special young women, young women of high intelligence, education, refinement, wealth, taste, and breeding.
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5 26 Contrariwise, the girls taken from Earth are apparently selected with great care, for beauty, intelligence, and, I suspect, somehow, though I am unclear how it is assessed, for latent, and eventually uncontrollable, passion.
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5 303 "We take some who have little to commend them but their extraordinary beauty, their high intelligence, and latent, exploitable needs".
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7 80 I determined that I would show them what a woman of Earth could be, and a woman of my background, of my class, of my position, of my intelligence, and education.
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7 98 I would show them what a woman of Earth could be, particularly one of my refinement, intelligence, education, and class, and a member of my sorority.
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7 359 Or were they lying to me, as I was lying to them? From whence, to one of my intelligence, education, refinement, class, and breeding, could come such thoughts? I thought of the history of a race.
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8 1735 How helpless we are in the hands of men, if they but choose to be masters! How they play with us, and use us as they please! We are so different from them! We are so small, so helpless in their power! Yet I would not trade the Gorean man, with all his might and will, all his arrogance and power, all...
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8 1983 It was well known that high intelligence was one of the properties sought in slaves.
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8 2025 Was I not intelligent, was I not beautiful, at least amongst women of Earth, if not compared to Gorean collar girls? But is the word 'clever' not a mere disparagement, on the part of some, of true intelligence, that which is expedient, and prudentially wise, that by means of which one may pursue one...
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8 2083 "It is a shame," said Menon, looking down upon me, "that the slavers consider little more than intelligence, beauty, and helpless, latent passion.
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10 15 Surely it was an unfamiliar, fearful robe for intelligence to wear.
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10 217 There was something about her which, for all her intelligence, suggested the innocence of the animal, something wild and unconstrained, something immediate, direct, and untutored.
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10 883 She entrusted to me a message, which was written in black ink on cheap rence paper, in simple block letters, at that time almost childishly formed letters, as she, for all her dexterity and intelligence, was still far from adept in Gorean.
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10 886 There would be no doubt that their authors were women of refinement, breeding, sensitivity, taste, and intelligence.
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11 31 Part of this may well have been because it never occurred to her, in her unquestioning confidence in her own beauty and intelligence, to think of me, as other free women might, as some sort of rival.
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17 191 Supposedly the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, concerned to protect the two worlds of Tor-tu-Gor, in particular, Gor, a generally undamaged world, and their own, would allow this alliance, provided their weapon and technology laws were respected, laws designed to keep dangerous powe...
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27 92 It was my supposition, of course, that all this had much more to do with Lord Grendel than with the Lady Bina, who, for all her remarkable intelligence, was in some ways astoundingly naive; certainly she knew little of Gor, little of the channels of politics, little of the springs of power, little o...
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29 111 The kajirae here are for the men, and that has been made clear to my fellows, which intelligence does not please them".
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39 43 I had been aware, for some time, of the jealousy, envy, and resentment felt by many lesser Kurii for those placed above them, for whatever reason it might be, intelligence, energy, vision, some conception of merit, success in some form of competition, blood connections, the machinations of politics,...
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44 68 "Desmond is a fine leader, one of intelligence, power, and honor," said Grendel.
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46 61 It was difficult to tell whether these impositions and restrictions were rationally justified in terms of intelligence available to Agamemnon and his inner circle or were the fruit of unproductive suspicions carried to the pitch of self-destructive madness.
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48 262 Agamemnon knew the fraudulence of your charges but saw fit to reward you, that more honest informers might not fear to come forth, with more reliable intelligence".
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49 26 Indeed, it is quite possible, given the importance of the experiment, and its projected political aim, that of securing alliances with Gorean humans, that Agamemnon would have wished something of himself, his intelligence, vision, cunning, might, and power, to be incorporated in Grendel.
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Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

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40 31 "Barbarians are selected with several criteria in mind, surely beauty, and helpless responsiveness and passion, but also high intelligence, often quite high intelligence.
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2 18 All these things are indications of high intelligence in merchandise, and perhaps of something else, as well, something related, perhaps a welcoming, a readiness, a relief, an understanding, such things.
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4 74 Such things are indicative of intelligence, and even more so, perhaps, of understanding.
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4 222 This bespoke high intelligence.
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4 223 Intelligence is a major criterion in terms of which we select slaves.
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10 8 In Tyrtaios I sensed intelligence and power, and a prudential sense of instrumentality, unqualified by extraneous considerations.
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14 236 "Perhaps one," I said, "even one of intelligence, might not realize the impossibility of escape".
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22 45 "They are selected, in part, for their intelligence.
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26 131 "First, intelligence might be gathered".
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37 176 Indeed, he had, in the absence of other intelligence, organized a small army, recruited from a dozen cities, to close the mouth of the Alexandra, to prevent the exiting of this ship, should it exist.
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37 178 He was thus in desperate need of intelligence.
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38 240 Doubtless this intelligence was welcomed, particularly given the absence of guards or scouts in the area.
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41 57 Had not Master Genserich or Master Aeson kicked my knees apart, that I might understand I was, in that camp, a pleasure slave? We have our power, our beauty, our wit, our intelligence, and may use it to our advantage.
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43 79 Rather, with such intelligence at our disposal, and our possible use of it, I suspect our lives might stand in some jeopardy".
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43 496 And he did have the assurance that they would be unable to report back to their employer, whoever or whatever he might be, with an intelligence which might prove threatening to the great ship and its projected commission, errand, or charge.
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43 1070 Also, of course, within this interval, the great ship would presumably be abroad on Thassa, and any intelligence borne by the slaves would be outdated, irrelevant, and useless, even should they dare to impart it.
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50 727 If anything, I saw high intelligence and cleverness.
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51 30 "They were located," I said, "and are unlikely to report their findings, or, in any event, in time for their intelligence to be meaningful".
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52 606 They are selected for beauty and intelligence".
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Book 33. (37 results) Rebels of Gor

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57 67 In Daichi's absence, who now would read the bones and shells for him? Lord Nishida, I was sure, would urge pursuit; Lord Okimoto, I suspected, would advise restraint, until intelligence, and more intelligence, and more intelligence, might be gathered.
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11 201 The common understanding of its debacle was the superior intelligence of the enemy, an intelligence which, it was suspected, had its origin in the holding of Temmu itself.
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14 54 "But one based on a faulty intelligence," said Lord Yamada, "an intelligence which, if I am not mistaken, you share".
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1 47 On the other hand, even from Tarncamp in the northern forests, a world away, and from various incidents on the voyage itself, I had had ample reason to respect, and fear, the intelligence of the enemy.
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1 524 It would not do, of course, to systematically avoid the correct line, for what practice might more explicitly call attention to that line? I had every reason to suspect that the intelligence of the enemy was considerable, and acute.
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6 177 I neglected to convey this intelligence to Lord Temmu, as we were to discipline uncooperative retainers by means of the torch and sword.
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9 95 Any troubling lacuna in the intelligence available to the shogun would be brief.
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9 128 It had been stormed by picked troops, following which the tarn cavalry itself had been considerably reduced, this impairing its effectiveness as an agency not only of intelligence and attack, but of supply.
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10 138 "That is our intelligence," said Lysander.
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11 185 Given the reconnaissance of tarns, intelligence, commonly problematical in war, may be increased exponentially.
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11 191 "Intelligence," I said, "may be as crucial as steel".
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11 202 "But now," I said, "with tarns at our disposal, our intelligence should be at least equivalent to, if not superior to, that of the enemy".
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13 175 With advanced intelligence it would not be difficult to pave the road to impressive prophecy.
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19 263 I was pleased that Jane had had the intelligence to remain absolutely silent.
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20 17 One did suppose that her indiscretion would eventually be brought to the attention of Lord Nishida which intelligence, assuming him loyal to Lord Temmu, would terminate her usefulness in his quarters, as a spy.
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21 65 Accordingly, I thought it possible he was, as he had claimed, loyal to the shogun, and had chosen this means, that of a reading, to inform the shogun of a sinister intelligence.
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21 111 This intelligence having been brought to the attention of Lord Temmu and Lord Okimoto, a daimyo of Lord Temmu, it had been determined that she was to be cast from the parapet at a time corresponding to that at which her observed message had been delivered.
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21 114 In actuality, Lord Yamada, fearing his plans had been jeopardized by her clumsiness, had had her recalled not for her protection or for a new employment, suitable to her beauty and intelligence, but because he wished to visit his disappointment and displeasure upon her, in a most grievous manner, me...
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21 120 It was not difficult to come by this intelligence as the palace was alive with it that morning.
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21 243 ' I was pleased to hear this intelligence spoken.
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21 376 Certainly I had waited long enough for this intelligence, which I supposed Sumomo had relished withholding from me, until the last moment.
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23 254 "Unfortunately, noble one," he said, "as wise as your hope might be, that rendezvous was attempted, and failed, which intelligence I have also from the aforementioned peasant, a trap having been laid and sprung.
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29 354 How was it that she had failed to exercise a greater caution? How anomalous an action that had been for a woman of her obvious intelligence.
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30 1 We Have Paused at an Inn to Gather Intelligence "Sake, more sake!" said the Ashigaru, striking the low table with the metal cup.
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30 48 To be sure, we had been unable to obtain much intelligence from the villages.
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30 55 From whom more informed might we garner the intelligence we sought than from Ashigaru of the shogun himself? When three of them had spilled into the inn, Tajima had hailed them, greeted them like long lost brothers, and, to their pleasure, stood for several rounds of sake.
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30 258 This lack of intelligence was keenly frustrating.
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31 14 But decision and aggression, intelligence and vanity, authority and command, do not all have similar habitats.
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39 118 I trust he will have come upon some useful intelligence".
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44 340 "I think I know its lair," I said, "and the intelligence, or intelligences, which animate it".
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45 9 "I think I do," I said, "and I think I know the intelligence, or intelligences, which govern it".
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47 9 "Message vulos keep me informed, and I have intelligence by tarn, as well.
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47 181 Nodachi bowed, politely, slightly, acknowledging this intelligence.
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57 1 We Gather Intelligence; We Look Forward to a Decent Meal; We Wish to Find Nodachi; We Will Search for a Particular Room "You will kneel here," I said.
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57 75 Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity.
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61 63 "That is your intelligence," I said.
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61 954 In her great financial institution, she had functioned as a solicitor of investment capital, a project in which she well utilized the assets of her intelligence, beauty, and meretricious, seductive skills, promising much and delivering nothing.
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Book 34. (39 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 39 "They select for intelligence, beauty, and passion".
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6 345 Indeed, one of the criteria in terms of which you were selected is high intelligence.
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7 76 "They insult our intelligence," I said.
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9 135 In this way, self-esteem, pride, and high intelligence tends to be spread rather evenly throughout the population, rather than being drained, over generations, into a limited number of professions.
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9 136 Also, allegiance to a Home Stone, and frequent internecine warfare, tends to keep the Gorean population decentralized, so that ambition and intelligence does not, over time, gravitate toward particular cities, say, larger, wealthier population centers, to the detriment of other municipalities.
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9 546 There is the beauty of a slave's joy, that of her passion, and service, that of her submission, that of her lively, vital intelligence, so stimulating to encounter, she kneeling before you, that of her emotions and feelings, that of the all of her, that of the entire fair beast, now collared".
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10 142 "And barbarians," he said, "are selected carefully, with an eye to intelligence, beauty, and passion.
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11 88 I was not popular with the other girls, even more so than is common with "barbarians," I feared, doubtless because of my obvious superiority to them, in both beauty and intelligence.
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11 160 I, despite my beauty and intelligence, my Earth origin, was chained with others, barbarians, to a mill pole.
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20 192 That was a welcome intelligence.
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21 12 I had now realized, for the first time, perhaps belatedly, certainly foolishly, that intelligence, rationality, a capacity to calculate and plan, to pursue far goals, might not be limited to my species, but that the dark selections of evolution, in their impersonal, blind processes, without heart, m...
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21 13 Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ...
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22 42 What master would deny himself the wholeness of his property, the sight of her, the feel of her, the grasp of her, the sound of her, the intelligence of her, the emotions of her? Too, although she may be put to use briefly and abruptly, whenever and however the master wishes, as she is a slave, it i...
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26 84 On the other hand, he made little use of me, apparently busying himself, in various disguises, conducting inquiries in the city, attempting to garner useful gossip, or intelligence, at various taverns, and so on.
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33 227 "The intelligence of slaves is quick," said the fellow with the lantern.
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33 373 "I welcome the intelligence".
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33 808 I admire your intelligence".
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33 811 "We pick our slaves, in part, for their high intelligence.
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33 830 Too, as you should understand by now, unless you are quite stupid, more so than I feared, your intelligence is relished and makes you much more pleasant to own".
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40 148 I was not cheered to receive this intelligence.
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42 153 Slavers selected with high intelligence in mind, as well as beauty and passion.
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42 154 It is well known that high intelligence improves the price of slaves, and, similarly, of course, ignitable passions, which place us so much at the mercy of our masters.
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43 77 "She, however naively, intends to acquire fame, wealth, and power on Gor, an open world, one with many humans, through the weapons of her intelligence and beauty.
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44 91 It is not my life they want, but my claws, my intelligence, my knowledge, my connections, my relationships, my honor".
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48 138 I regarded this intelligence with some apprehension.
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48 184 Certainly I had gathered the intelligence I had been dispatched to obtain; the messenger of Decius Albus was not alone; two others were about, who might be watched for in the future, a free woman, in Merchant colors, who stood high in the house of Decius Albus, in charge of whom was the slave, and, ...
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50 37 I was not reassured by the receipt of this intelligence.
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51 13 She was then, after a time, her business seemingly concluded, conducted away, to be returned to her secret location in the palace, which secret location was now known to us, thanks to the intelligence afforded by the Lady Alexina, who had been only too pleased to be removed from Lyris' cage and retu...
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51 53 Were they not the prizes? Did they not bring the highest prices? The three major criteria for selection by Gorean slavers were beauty, intelligence, and passion, helpless passion, slave passion, a woman's slave needs.
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51 197 "Dear Lady," said Kurik, "I have no doubt that your intelligence is high, extremely so, but the data at its disposal, on which it must rely, is egregiously sparse, and bears little relation to the intrigues and complexities of this world.
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56 70 "I am pleased to be in receipt of that intelligence," said Drusus Andronicus.
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59 82 Who knows, I wondered, what waits, restless, behind those gates? Do not such gates make possible civilization, intelligence, and thought? Perhaps, in the case of the Kur, those gates had not been opened for a thousand years.
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60 61 "One is always pleased to encounter intelligence in a beast, particularly in one whose flanks are of interest".
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61 535 Naturally free women, in most cities, in their frustration, as would be expected, make the most of their prestige, caste rights, intelligence, beauty, and such, exploiting such things ruthlessly to consolidate and improve their position in society.
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63 36 Paula had been so shy, and quiet, seemingly dazzled by my vivacity and intelligence, seemingly admiring my verve, wit, and charm.
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63 134 He maintained a large network of informants, from whom intelligence might be gathered, upon whom gold might be lavished.
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64 95 And worthless, indeed! We are selected for our beauty, our intelligence, our passion, our needs, and our desirability! And we are clothed, if clothed, in such a way as to display us, to flatter our sex and show it as it can be, as men want to see it, exciting and vulnerable, ready and purchasable! D...
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67 27 Why should such intelligence be withheld from her? Surely she should be informed".
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68 164 Only on Gor had I come to realize how beautiful Paula was, with her high intelligence, her passion, her profound slave needs.
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Book 35. (19 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 275 I was surprised to learn that the acquirers value intelligence in a woman highly, more so, I fear, than the men of Earth.
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1 276 Indeed, they would often sacrifice beauty for intelligence.
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1 279 Also, having a far more sensitive body, she is much more responsive to punishment, which she will feel much more keenly than a more phlegmatic, duller woman, and will, accordingly, strive zealously, with all her intelligence, wit, beauty, and charm, to avoid it, by striving, to the best of her abili...
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3 466 "You see, noble masters," said the auctioneer, "our suppliers select not only for comeliness and high intelligence, as is well known, but for uncontrollable slave reflexes".
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4 163 "Doubtless you applied your high intelligence to well learn such lessons," she said.
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4 164 "I tried to master them," I said, "I paid attention, I applied myself, but I do not think intelligence was much involved.
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4 168 What slave does not wish to please her master? And she had better please him, or she will feel the lash! But I think intelligence is important.
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6 78 How naive I had been, no more, for all my supposed intelligence, than a pretty simpleton and fool! I had anticipated nothing! Then it had happened.
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13 213 Gorean slavers prize intelligence in a woman.
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17 164 What was he doing in Port Kar? Was this a coincidence? Did he still seek his Luta? Did he suspect she was in the city? Had he intelligence of that? Had he followed her here? Where was he bound? Certainly not to the Golden Chain.
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21 11 Only a few steps from the pantry, however, distraught and confused, the tunic in my hand, I turned about, wildly, and rushed back to the pantry, to beg him for some intelligence as to what this whole mad business, so curious and mysterious, might be about, but the pantry was empty.
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26 90 Were there an intelligence here, we would have been discovered.
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26 130 I wondered what sort of intelligence, with recourse to what sophisticated technology, could conceive of, and would dare to produce, so monstrous a thing, and for what purpose.
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33 138 And I had no idea of the nature of the intelligence that guided or animated that emergent metal beast, nor what might be its values, priorities, and purposes.
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33 300 "Whatever vast intelligence resides within or speaks through the dreadful housing before me, know that I have long sought your acquaintance," called Bruno of Torcadino.
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33 318 "We have much in common, mysterious intelligence," said Bruno of Torcadino.
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40 356 Did the feast not signal that? Much intelligence of interest had apparently been gained from the interrogation of Dorna.
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47 234 Intelligence, as is well known, raises a girl's price".
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47 368 "I am not clear on what intelligence informs that beast, or machine.
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Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 250 This was an unwelcome intelligence, indeed.
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6 81 Slavers select with several criteria in mind, for example, high intelligence, vitality, attractiveness, which is not always the same as beauty, and, at least, latent passion.
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9 6 "That would give us time to gather further intelligence".
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16 188 "Might some not serve as observation sites or posts, enlarging the compass of his intelligence, informing him of passing shipping, and such?" "I trust that such is not the case," she said.
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17 428 They will still be active, recruiting cohorts, gathering intelligence, and plotting new enterprises".
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21 43 "In Sybaris," I said, "I was amazed to discover that one such as you, one of your intelligence, family, experience, and talent, indeed, the famous Nicomachos of Cos, was on Thera".
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21 97 "Rumors fly about," he said, "and we must guard against being misled by contrived intelligence, supplied by the corsairs themselves, to confuse and baffle us, to lead us astray, to trick us into expending our resources fruitlessly".
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22 1 Intelligence is Gathered; I Form a Plan "I feared it might be," I said.
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28 1 Intelligence is Gathered at Sea I stood upon the stem deck of the Tesephone, looking about.
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35 179 "They sacrifice intelligence for security," said Thurnock.
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36 192 You took from us every particle of clandestine intelligence we had to give".
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43 13 "They will wish to gather intelligence".
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45 79 I did not rush through the door, wary as to the possible skill or intelligence of the assailant.
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58 216 "At the fair at Mytilene we arranged a mode of communication," I said, "how intelligence, if obtained, might be shared".
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