| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 126 |
Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. |
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| 3 | 114 |
This would be the normal supposition in any case, but what intrigued me here, perhaps for no sufficient reason, was the complex nature of the expressions involved. |
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| 3 | 210 |
I had begun to think in Gorean as well, and after a time I was conscious of a deliberate mental shift involved in thinking in English. |
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| 5 | 21 |
There was now an empire of Ar, a robust, arrogant, warlike polity only too obviously involved in the work of dividing its enemies and extending its political hegemony city by city across the plains, hills, and deserts of Gor. |
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| 10 | 124 |
Not only does this lubricant absorb much of the shock involved, but it tends, except under abnormal stress, to keep the seat of the saddle parallel to the ground. |
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| 19 | 133 |
While we touched blades almost as if involved in some bizarre ritualistic dance, there was the ringing, the clanging of fiercer swordplay around us, as the men of Pa-Kur engaged the men of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 157 |
I myself would not understand the intricate processes involved in the machine of which she spoke but the purpose of the machine and the theoretical principles that facilitated its purpose were reasonably clear. |
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| 17 | 64 |
Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 28 |
The consequences of my act, if I were successful, were too complex and fearful to calculate, the factors involved being so numerous and obscure. |
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| 6 | 63 |
But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by Priest-Kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on th... |
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| 7 | 27 |
I was pleased that there were no prostrations or grovelings involved in approaching the august presence of the exalted Kutaituchik. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n... |
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| 8 | 210 |
There is a priority of honor involved in being first rider, but points scored are the same by either rider, depending on his performance. |
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| 10 | 209 |
He could not, of course, compete in these contests, for there is status involved in these matters and only warriors of repute are permitted to participate. |
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| 12 | 271 |
There is a kind of implicit claim of ownership involved in putting a wench in slave steel. |
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| 13 | 154 |
Each of the four haruspexes then, after intoning an involved entreaty of some sort to the sky, which at the time was shining beneficently, suddenly cast a handful of something—doubtless grain—to the pigeons in the stick cage. |
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| 22 | 17 |
Do not take me wrong—I am rather fond, on the whole, of my hair—it is merely that one must, to be objective about such matters, recognize that it has, from time to time, involved me in various difficulties—beginning about my fourth year. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 295 |
"Have you any idea of the expense of acquiring a barbarian woman from beyond the cities—the distances involved? Normally they can be brought in only one at a time, on tarnback. |
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| 5 | 642 |
This sort of thing was trivial, but one never knew when something less trivial might perhaps be involved. |
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| 5 | 742 |
The slave goad, unknown in most Gorean cities, is almost never used except by professional slavers, probably because of the great expense involved; the tarn goad, by contrast, is a simple instrument. |
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| 5 | 743 |
Both goads, interestingly, emit a shower of yellow sparks when touched to an object, a phenomenon which, associated with the pain involved, surely plays its role in producing aversion to the goad, both in tarns and men. |
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| 9 | 52 |
The common thread in these various matters was that the House of Cernus was involved, either in presenting the sale or in sponsoring the races or games. |
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| 12 | 18 |
Many of them, too, were much involved in the race, for concealed in their trays or about their persons were doubtless the glazed clay tablets, purchased from the track merchants, redeemable at odds should their favorites finish in one of the four privileged positions. |
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| 15 | 386 |
Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attribut... |
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| 16 | 209 |
It might be noted, however, that a serious investment is involved in attempting to form a faction. |
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| 17 | 150 |
I knew myself involved in games of a dangerous sort, but I had agreed to play, not clearly understanding the object or the goal of what I did. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 100 |
I knew the distance involved and what she might do. |
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| 11 | 365 |
"Further," said Samos, "I propose that the council decree that all bonds among clients and patrons in Port Kar be now dissolved, to be reestablished only on the basis of mutual consent and explicit contract on the part of the parties involved, which documents, in copy, are to be placed with the coun... |
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| 11 | 573 |
"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent... |
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| 14 | 59 |
To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu... |
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| 14 | 87 |
The important thing, as I saw it, was not so much the absolute numbers of ships involved as the numbers of ships that could be applied at a given place and given time. |
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| 14 | 192 |
By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us. |
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| 17 | 84 |
I hoped that Chenbar might assume that many of the ships which had fled from Port Kar might have come about and decided to join the battle, or he might infer that he had, before he could ascertain the ships involved in the flanking attacks, seriously misjudged our numbers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 193 |
I had toyed with the idea of granting it, not for the hundred dollars, of course, but for piquant frisson involved, the tingling, flattering little thrill of such a transaction, me, Elinor Brinton, selling a kiss, the surprising, unexpected, naughty adventure of it, of pretending, for a moment, that... |
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| 11 | 309 |
Some prudish slavers, scandalized by ear piercing, refused to have it done to their girls, but Targo, doubtless because of the gold involved, had insisted upon it. |
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| 11 | 379 |
She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 129 |
"I might," said Samos, "if you could establish the pertinence of the procedure to the issues involved". |
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| 8 | 21 |
One of the simplest and least dangerous we had immediately rejected, because of the time involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 39 |
Other captains, other merchants, seeing the waxing of my fortunes, and understanding the commercial complexities involved, had offered this scribe considerable emoluments to join their service. |
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| 2 | 90 |
Their education, generally, is of little obvious practical value, with its attention to authorized exegeses of dubious, difficult texts, purporting to be revelations of Priest-Kings, the details and observances of their own calendars, their interminable, involved rituals, and so on, but, paradoxical... |
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| 4 | 135 |
I knew, of course, that game context was a decisive matter in such considerations, but only now, playing Forkbeard, did I suspect that there was another context involved, that of the inclinations, capacities and dispositions of the individual player. |
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| 6 | 401 |
Usually, however, because of the power and ferocity of the beasts, men would hunt them only to the borders of their own districts, particularly if only the loss of a bosk or thrall was involved. |
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| 10 | 55 |
I was pleased that I was not involved in the play. |
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| 11 | 187 |
It was Gorean Kurii that were clearly, substantially, involved. |
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| 17 | 132 |
I do not understand how they are earned, or what is involved in moving from the "second ring" to the first ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 289 |
If war should erupt their vassal tribes, such as the Char, the Kashani, the Ta'Kara, the Raviri, the Tashid, the Luraz, the Bakahs, would all become involved. |
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| 7 | 218 |
It might also, of course, attract the vengeance of Kurii on the community or district involved. |
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| 11 | 308 |
Though there are some token tributes involved, exemptions for Aretai merchants from caravan taxes, and such, the vassal tribe is, in its own areas, almost completely autonomous, with its own leaders, magistrates, judges and soldiers. |
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| 24 | 429 |
"And answer honestly," I said, "for discipline is involved". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 722 |
If more than one girl is involved, she who follows most closely on the left is generally taken to be in highest favor; girls compete for this position. |
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| 3 | 280 |
This sport of Girl Catch, interestingly, when matters of honor are not thought to be involved, has been used upon occasion by cities to settle boundary disputes and avert wars. |
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| 4 | 701 |
Moreover, waiting was involved in it. |
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| 9 | 1005 |
Though there are doubtless difficulties involved with caste structure the caste situation lends an individual identity and pride, allies him with thousands of caste brothers, and provides him with various opportunities and services. |
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| 9 | 1641 |
"There is more involved here". |
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| 12 | 661 |
There are no particular regularities involved in these matters and it is not unusual for a literate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves, nor for an illiterate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves. |
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| 15 | 346 |
"You are involved in a struggle," I said. |
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| 18 | 73 |
Can this be made clear, I wonder, to those of Earth? Categoricality is involved. |
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| 18 | 91 |
I think some nonslaves can sense what is involved, what it might be to be such a slave. |
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| 18 | 109 |
Then, in the confusion and noise of the brawl, she, pretending distaste at the activity of the ruffians involved, went to the gate, was released, and made away. |
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| 20 | 158 |
Better it were Clitus Vitellius in their place! But he was a noble captain of Ar, and would not be involved in the insignificant skirmishes on the Vosk. |
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| 22 | 27 |
It would be torture to belong to her, not only from the shame of being forced to serve her perfectly, but because she would expect me to adopt her values and conform absolutely to them, values which involved her proud, determined independence of men, and her contempt of them. |
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| 22 | 327 |
Considering what was involved and how it would be done, it seemed more straightforward and honest than less candid or more circuitous expressions, enveiling euphemisms. |
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| 24 | 105 |
In some cities, however, there is a slave praetor, who will make inquiries where the doings of slaves may be involved, and will be in charge of resolving squabbles, for example, in the market, assigning punishments for offenses, and so on, functions commonly thought beneath the attention of the civi... |
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| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 358 |
Some would see this as superstition; others sense that there is some sort of an inexplicable reality which is here involved, a difficult and subtle reality which the man of the sea can somehow sense, but which he cannot, and perhaps should not, attempt to explain to the satisfaction of men other tha... |
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| 3 | 26 |
This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement. |
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| 9 | 238 |
On the other hand, there are subtleties and realities involved in these matters which may elude the casual observer. |
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| 10 | 315 |
They did not carry shields, for their duties had only involved the supervision of a work crew. |
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| 18 | 3 |
It was not that he had been consciously counting, but rather that he had, doubtless from his experiences in such matters, a sensitivity to the rhythms involved, and the increase in their intensity, given the stress of the beast. |
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| 23 | 285 |
"Yet there seems much time and risk involved in recovering someone who is probably only a silver-tarsk girl". |
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| 23 | 339 |
When she tries to lie there is a fear involved and this fear, in subtle ways, in subtle drawings back, in tensenesses, is manifested in her beautiful body, proclaiming it that of a liar. |
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| 37 | 112 |
A nuclear device, or a nuclear-type device, it seemed, had been involved in the destruction of the complex. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 203 |
"Calculations performed by the black geographer, Ramani, of the island of Anango, suggested that given the elevations involved the two rivers could not be the same. |
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| 1 | 587 |
On the other hand, men of Lydia might possibly have been involved in its founding. |
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| 2 | 204 |
He was also involved in hardware, paper, wool, and salt. |
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| 6 | 346 |
A result, of course, of the narrowing, the amount of water involved being the same, is an increase in the velocity of the flow. |
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| 7 | 161 |
Uchafu undoubtedly, because of the prices involved, understood that she was of some importance. |
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| 8 | 88 |
He met it squarely, however, and I myself, no Centius of Cos, was soon involved in perplexing difficulties. |
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| 8 | 123 |
Certain figures are formed with the hands and beads which have symbolic meaning, much of which was lost upon me, as I was not familiar with the conventions involved. |
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| 10 | 31 |
But if there were truth in this I think there was, too, a higher truth involved. |
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| 11 | 163 |
She apparently had little sensitivity to the aesthetic incongruities involved or, perhaps, she wished merely to reassure herself by this device that she was truly of Earth and not Gor. |
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| 12 | 41 |
This confirmed in my mind the soundness of the speculation of Samos that the false ring involved some serious threat or danger. |
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| 14 | 16 |
The common denominator of these customs, of course, is that the slave must understand that force, either explicitly or implicitly, is involved, and that she will enter the stronghold of the master, and as a slave, whether she wills to do so or not. |
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| 17 | 26 |
"I had heard rumors of such a project but did not understand the nature of the ships or that this ubarate was involved. |
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| 27 | 191 |
They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. |
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| 32 | 497 |
There was some group involved. |
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| 32 | 995 |
It is a practice of which even many of those involved in cultural studies are ignorant". |
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| 34 | 190 |
"I did not even begin to understand at that time," she said, "what might be involved, the almost total impossibility of escape and the drastic nature of the penalties which Gorean men might, without a second thought, so casually inflict upon me. |
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| 34 | 376 |
"For most practical purposes the expression 'slave object' is not well chosen to express the realities involved. |
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| 47 | 22 |
Conservatively some dozens of millions might be involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 85 |
The second major ambiguity in the politics involved was the paradoxical combination of hostility toward men coupled with envy of men. |
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| 1 | 103 |
"There is little if any concept involved," I said. |
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| 20 | 108 |
It was not merely that his own champion had been defeated and that he had lost a goodly bit of coin on the wagering involved, but that he had been, in the past, like several other young swains in the vicinity, an unsuccessful suitor in the matter of the companionship, for the hand of the Lady Floren... |
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| 21 | 237 |
A woman had been involved. |
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| 25 | 260 |
"The entire Salerian Confederation may become involved," said Kenneth. |
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| 32 | 119 |
Whereas it was doubtless true that the position of the pleasure slave in itself was terribly arousing to a woman, there was much more involved here. |
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| 32 | 120 |
As some may not be familiar with the subtleties involved, it may be helpful to mention some of them. |
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| 32 | 135 |
But it is not just the position, but the entire milieu involved, as well, culturally, socially, psychologically, physically, and so on. |
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| 32 | 278 |
Many subtleties are involved. |
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| 32 | 307 |
"Such things are not involved here. |
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| 32 | 345 |
"It is madness!" "No madness is involved," I said. |
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| 32 | 348 |
But, being Gorean, she should surely realize that no more would be involved than in selling a verr or tarsk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 |
More than four thousand men were involved. |
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| 4 | 121 |
Many men, despite the theories pertaining to such matters, and accepting the risks involved, enjoy taking them. |
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| 4 | 123 |
Indeed, it is thought by some, perhaps largely because of the additional risks involved, and the interest in seeing what one has caught, that there is a special spice and flavor about taking them. |
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| 6 | 22 |
They were not, thus, involved in the action which took place shortly afterward northeast of Vonda. |
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| 10 | 157 |
The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ... |
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| 30 | 40 |
"You are involved in the conspiracy of Tasdron, taverner of Victoria, who is in league with Glyco, of Port Cos," said Policrates. |
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| 31 | 156 |
It takes less time to close the gate than open it, but that, too, because of the weights involved, the windlass stress and the need to control the windlass, requires a considerable effort. |
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| 32 | 89 |
That a single ship had been involved suggested a certain complacency on the part of the western pirates. |
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| 32 | 233 |
One such parry might be fortunate, but that two such parries should follow one another, apparently so clumsy, and yet, both, similarly effective, would surely appear to defy the probabilities involved in such matters. |
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| 33 | 159 |
"What are the numbers involved?" I asked. |
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| 33 | 226 |
"Yet," said Callimachus, "if the Tamira were truly the scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard, and if she crossed the chain westward four days ago, and a rendezvous was made in the river, in the vicinity of the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, the times involved are not inappropriate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 39 |
Third parties, thus, in such matters, are not involved, and he knows precisely, at least in such instances, how much money is involved, and where it is being spent. |
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| 4 | 206 |
Hundreds of oars, like sticks, had been snapped in the stresses involved, even against the hulls of their own vessels. |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
In the distance involved, at full strike, with the lost port rudder, we could not have come about in time to attain the attack course. |
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| 7 | 58 |
The infantrymen of Ar, in their numbers, inordinate for the vessels involved, and their skills in war, uncommon on the river, stiffened the resistance of the remnants of our small fleet. |
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| 14 | 42 |
"Two who were involved in this miserable business," said Policrates, "surmount now, as stripped and helpless prisoners, the shearing blades of my vessel". |
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| 17 | 831 |
"Many things are involved," she said, "and sometimes some things and not others". |
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| 17 | 851 |
But many things are involved. |
10 |
| 17 | 917 |
To be sure, there are often prosaic parameters involved, as well, such as a flattering garmenture, a lovely posture, graceful movements, proper rest, suitable exercise, a good diet, and such. |
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| 19 | 14 |
She had not been involved in the game, but had only been watching it. |
10 |
| 19 | 418 |
Too, there can be many dangers involved for the slaver in the capture of women for slave markets. |
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| 20 | 41 |
She knew only that she was in some way to be involved in my entertainment. |
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| 20 | 356 |
"Victoria was centrally involved in the resistance to the pirates," said Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 694 |
The idea of the performance, then, as well as most of the details involved in its presentation, must have been that of my little dark-haired slave. |
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| 20 | 1644 |
Can they be so stupid as not to see what is being done to them, and the motives and agendas involved, so stupid as not to see who is profiting from their diminishment or extinction? But, alas, as men come into ruin, so, too, do women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 680 |
To be sure, values are involved here, and one must make decisions. |
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| 1 | 701 |
"Yes," said Samos, guardedly, "but they are not likely to be involved in matters of the sort with which we are here likely to be concerned". |
10 |
| 1 | 712 |
At the least they would be certain that he would be significantly involved in the affairs of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 1064 |
The more danger and risk that is involved in a deed, on the whole, the greater is the concomitant glory of accomplishing it. |
10 |
| 1 | 1070 |
Indeed, there are also, in many tribes, practical considerations which also become involved in these matters. |
10 |
| 1 | 1123 |
Needless to say, it is extremely dangerous to fall from one's kaiila in hunting kailiauk, because one is often closely involved with numerous stampeding beasts, or the given beast one is pursuing may suddenly turn on one. |
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| 2 | 89 |
In such a collar, had it been in place, two planks would be involved, both flat and horizontal, each of which would contain five matching semicircular openings. |
10 |
| 5 | 141 |
They were not intimately involved in the hide traffic and, if they had been, as merchants, their procedures, initially, at any rate, would have been mercantile and not military. |
10 |
| 6 | 46 |
It could not cover the distances involved in the times that would be necessary. |
10 |
| 8 | 60 |
I smiled to myself at the artifice involved in this transaction. |
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| 13 | 822 |
"I think," I said, "in spite of other possible considerations and advantages which might have been involved in her behavior and attitudes, she was trying to be kind to you, trying to make it clear to you what you were, trying to encourage you to be true to your own nature". |
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| 14 | 81 |
Not only are tensions eased but vanities are less likely to become involved in the trading. |
10 |
| 14 | 275 |
There are two answers to this question, and the division between the answers is primarily a function of the time involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 1357 |
The girls, in their neck shackles, of course, did not know of our decision, nor of what might be involved in it. |
10 |
| 15 | 16 |
The smoke produced is then regulated in its ascent by the action of a robe or blanket, the manner of its releasing being a function of the conventions involved. |
10 |
| 15 | 284 |
"We were not involved in the action," said Grunt. |
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| 17 | 73 |
In passing, one might note a type of light neck yoke occasionally used in the march when more than one girl is involved, usually three to five. |
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| 19 | 163 |
Too, she realized that tension had been involved in her claimancy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 185 |
The stereotype of the taciturn red savage is one based, usually, on encountering him in guarded situations, where he is uneasy, perhaps meeting strangers, or is, say, being careful, perhaps being involved in trading. |
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| 4 | 342 |
This is a function, of course, of the lodges involved. |
10 |
| 16 | 11 |
The first offense involved being turned over to the women of the red savages for days of torment and torture. |
10 |
| 26 | 110 |
Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'. |
10 |
| 27 | 101 |
Cuwignaka's speculations as to the numbers involved in the recent skirmish was congruent with my own estimations. |
10 |
| 28 | 308 |
From the point of view of the target, of course, which may even be off balance, it is difficult, in the interval involved, to set itself for a second evasive action. |
10 |
| 37 | 267 |
Such rigor, however, is usually involved only in the breeding of expensive, pedigreed slaves. |
10 |
| 37 | 268 |
Most slave breeding is at the discretion of the private master or masters involved. |
10 |
| 37 | 278 |
In the matter of bitterness of taste, there is little to choose from between raw sip root and slave wine, the emulsive qualities of the slave wine being offset to some extent by the strength of the concentrations involved. |
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| 43 | 216 |
Is this not the sort of thing which is involved in the ringed candles, in the tiny stream of water in the clepsydra, in the falling sand in the Ahn glass, in the alternation of day and night, and in the calendar of the stars? I stirred up the fire again, so that I might better see what I was doing. |
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| 43 | 345 |
Surely some sort of high coup would be involved, dragging a high lady of the Yellow Knives, one of their own proud free women, in a sack, up and down, back and forth in their own promenade lane, like a common slave girl. |
10 |
| 43 | 355 |
Commonly a slave would be enclosed completely in the sack and a free woman, if no risk were involved in doing it, would be bound in the sack only from the neck down. |
10 |
| 44 | 585 |
The delicate balances of tribal power would not have been sustained for generations, in my opinion, had radically disparate distributions of martial skills been involved. |
10 |
| 47 | 174 |
As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke. |
10 |
| 47 | 436 |
Clearly their best interests were involved in doing so. |
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| 50 | 88 |
Matters such as intention, as I have earlier indicated, are in such cases irrelevant to the legal enactments involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 |
Yet, if one thinks about it, at least in the case of many coins, a coin is a way in which a government or ruler certifies that a given amount of precious metal is involved in a transaction. |
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| 3 | 485 |
"If self-evidence is involved here," she said, "it is surely self-evident that it is not wrong to own human beings. |
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| 3 | 775 |
"The technology involved is more sophisticated, more advanced, than that with which you are familiar," he said. |
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| 3 | 820 |
Perhaps I could somehow use it as a prize which I might award for gain, or as a bargaining device in some negotiation in which I might be involved. |
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| 4 | 25 |
The bowl upon inspection, the merchant becoming suspicious as to the weights involved, had turned out to be merely plated. |
10 |
| 4 | 307 |
To be a proper guard for a Tatrix, however, surely involved more than being quick with a sword. |
10 |
| 6 | 382 |
These involved such things as races, javelin hurling and stone throwing. |
10 |
| 6 | 391 |
As they thrust at one another and fended blows, moving with great speed and skill, in their swift passages, under the watchful eye of the referee, backed by two independent scorers, I could scarcely conjecture what would be involved in actual swordplay, with steel unencumbered with sheaths. |
10 |
| 12 | 12 |
Surely there would then be time, and time enough, given the distances involved, to close the gate. |
10 |
| 21 | 54 |
The similarity of the two wagons and the chaining arrangements suggested that a single company was involved. |
10 |
| 23 | 309 |
This was not a simple matter of sentience, incidentally, but involved an entire matrix of feeling, thought and emotion. |
10 |
| 23 | 311 |
But, too, it must be admitted that powerful physical feelings were also involved. |
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| 26 | 243 |
Some reasons, I gather, for the veiling of free women, aside from questions of modesty, is to mark their distinction from slaves and render them less likely to be targeted by, and predated upon by, professional slavers, who, it is supposed, will, considering the risks involved, be then more likely t... |
10 |
| 26 | 287 |
Intense emotions, sensations and feelings are involved. |
10 |
| 26 | 372 |
"Would this be involved with the enterprises of Mintar?" asked a man. |
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| 31 | 323 |
There was something of this involved in his command, the having to kiss the walls of his room, the furniture there, and such, but the form of the command was presumably motivated primarily by the consideration that compliance with it would guarantee a full and adequate negotiation of the room's inte... |
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| 33 | 771 |
"There are two worlds involved, Master," she said, "Gor, and the world called Earth". |
10 |
| 33 | 795 |
"Intermittently, it is my understanding, for generations, they have been involved in combat. |
10 |
| 33 | 829 |
That there were actually two women involved was a carefully guarded secret, known only to a handful of trusted followers. |
10 |
| 34 | 78 |
But, as I suggested, the words pertaining to these things are inadequate, woefully inadequate, to even suggest what it is like to be involved in such a ritual. |
10 |
| 34 | 79 |
If you have so served, you know whereof I speak; if you have not so served, perhaps you can sense what might be involved. |
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| 36 | 1374 |
Too, deception was involved in my post. |
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| 18 | 499 |
The principle involved is that certain surfaces are reflected in such a way that the observer is led to misinterpret his visual data; for example, he is led to take a reflected surface, a mirrored surface, in a given location, for an actual or real surface in a different location; he normally does n... |
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| 1 | 102 |
In connection with the fees for such matters, it is not uncommon that bribes are also involved. |
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| 1 | 103 |
This is particularly the case when small committees are involved in the approvals or given individuals, such as a city's Entertainment Master or Master of Revels. |
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| 1 | 104 |
There is little secret, incidentally, about the briberies involved. |
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| 2 | 181 |
In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu... |
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| 2 | 443 |
Less risk is involved in playing for a draw than a win, of course. |
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| 2 | 634 |
"More than a silver tarsk is actually involved, Captain," said the officer. |
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| 2 | 756 |
Similarly, of course, they would be less efficient in manifesting the results of the deeper competitions involved, those competitions in which women desperately strive against one another, each to prove themselves more desirable to men than the others. |
10 |
| 2 | 854 |
I turned my steps, curious as to what might be involved, toward the purple booths. |
10 |
| 2 | 1010 |
I did not think Vart, the slaver whose booth this was, was likely to be involved. |
10 |
| 2 | 1012 |
If he was involved he would have been stupid to use his own booth. |
10 |
| 2 | 1144 |
"When the first message arrived, some days ago, I was certain there was some grievous error involved. |
10 |
| 2 | 1169 |
Some terrible mistake must surely be involved". |
10 |
| 2 | 1520 |
"There is a principle involved here". |
10 |
| 3 | 85 |
Most female slavers, incidentally, are not involved in field captures. |
10 |
| 3 | 100 |
First, there are very few women involved in such things. |
10 |
| 3 | 106 |
The number of guards on hand, too, which was five, was really too small to manage a normal work gang, not because of the ratios involved, but because of the necessity of maintaining night watches. |
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| 6 | 353 |
"Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well". |
10 |
| 6 | 983 |
Yet one had the distinct impression, in the lovely conventions involved, that they were getting closer and closer. |
10 |
| 6 | 1114 |
Two desiderata are involved, suitable helplessness, and full protection of the game. |
10 |
| 9 | 108 |
Perhaps there was a vengeance of sorts involved. |
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| 10 | 641 |
I understand, of course, what is involved. |
10 |
| 12 | 475 |
"You have made it a great deal clearer to me what may be involved here. |
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| 12 | 691 |
If intent is involved in such an omission, it can be an occasion for death by torture. |
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| 14 | 216 |
"Do not permit us to sway your decision," said Flaminius, "but it has been our usual experience in similar situations, that the individual involved waits until the sleen are almost upon him and then, seemingly almost uncontrollably, runs into the pack. |
10 |
| 14 | 354 |
It, too, presumably, was intimately involved in the pack's general response, its defense response, or stranger-rejection response, so to speak. |
10 |
| 14 | 372 |
Some very clever individual, or individuals, must have suspected the mechanisms involved. |
10 |
| 18 | 283 |
They must be involved in this!" "They did not go toward their quarters," called out a man, near the door. |
10 |
| 18 | 482 |
I want everyone who can recognize him, who knows him, guardsman or not, male or female, free or slave, involved in the search!" "Is he so important, Ubar?" asked Flaminius. |
10 |
| 18 | 507 |
The recessing of the pole, with the joining of the mirrors behind it, made it impossible, because of the angles involved, for an observer to see his own reflection in the mirrors unless, of course, he were to come into the niche himself. |
10 |
| 19 | 132 |
Its manner, considering the sort of entity which had been involved, had almost suggested refinement. |
10 |
| 19 | 135 |
The whole business, in its manner of accomplishment, suggested an almost terrifying patience and restraint, given the size and needs, the ferocity and energy, of the entity involved. |
10 |
| 21 | 124 |
"That," I said, "the distance involved, would seem to be a flaw in your plan". |
10 |
| 22 | 237 |
"But you have no clear idea of the numbers involved?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 261 |
"Members of the high council of Brundisium, other than Belnar, are involved. |
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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... |
10 |
| 1 | 188 |
It might be mentioned, in passing, as there may be misunderstandings involved in these matters, that the Gorean master seldom, if ever, hurts a slave gratuitously. |
10 |
| 1 | 190 |
But let us return to the ambivalences involved. |
10 |
| 4 | 12 |
Also, not unoften, depending on the numbers involved, and particularly when traversing, or sojourning in, dangerous countries, verr, tarsk and bosk may also be found within the wagon enclosure. |
10 |
| 5 | 457 |
Once this sort of thing is understood, one begins to realize something of the psychology involved, certainly at the least that it would be a mistake to overlook or underestimate the psychological concomitants of binding, chaining, and such. |
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| 6 | 11 |
I hoped earnestly that if these dealings were found out that any penalties which might be involved, in particular, such things as torturings and impalements, would be visited upon the sutlers and not on their customers, and particularly not on folks who might be traveling with their customers. |
10 |
| 6 | 111 |
I did, however, for at least a moment, feverishly consider the practicalities that might be involved in doing so. |
10 |
| 14 | 25 |
This inclination, incidentally, is not all that uncommon among individuals whose fortunes tend to be intimately involved in such matters as importation and exportation, the location and exploitation of foreign markets, and, in general, the overseas trade, the Thassa and island trade. |
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| 16 | 1043 |
"I think he does not quite understand what is involved," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 1137 |
I thought it possible that any guards who might have the duty of supervising our exit from the city, or perhaps the duties of inspecting or searching us, might, given the numbers involved, be somewhat lax or a bit less diligent in their efforts by the time we reached them, and we were not so far bac... |
10 |
| 16 | 1526 |
To make certain that there are no possible confusions or misunderstandings involved in such cases the master usually gives the female a brief opportunity to speak, usually only a few Ihn, in which she must make her pleas, hoping to win his favor. |
10 |
| 18 | 139 |
Whereas Boabissia's vanity may well have been involved in this, clearly she did not seem to be of Alar blood, and, as I had heard, the caravan in which she had been discovered as an infant had indeed been one of size and presumed opulence. |
10 |
| 18 | 272 |
"Then you might see her act, considering all that is involved, the bold confession, the loss of status, the stern nature of bondage, the now belonging helplessly and totally to a master, how free women will now treat her and look upon her, as the act of a very brave woman," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 101 |
Most carriers would not accept the risks involved. |
10 |
| 22 | 389 |
Perhaps, too, there is something of a masculine conspiracy involved here. |
10 |
| 24 | 207 |
"Had I made a counterfeit, I would have done it, not knowing any better, in your modern fashion, and then you would have been able to detect, from the time involved, that the disk was a forgery, that it was fraudulent". |
10 |
| 25 | 344 |
This doubtless has something to do with the naturalness of the institution, for it is a civilized enhancement of a fundamental biological complementarity, and the tendency of the slave, categorically dominated and uncompromisingly possessed, as she longs to be, to fall in love with the master, and t... |
10 |
| 25 | 530 |
"But you understand something of what is involved, do you not?" asked my hostess. |
10 |
| 25 | 2322 |
"Still one might regret the tragedy involved, even in the case of the idiot". |
10 |
| 26 | 186 |
Accordingly, in entering the tunnel I had determined, from the beginning, in the event it was unlighted, that I would prefer to arrange matters in such a way that the considerable risks involved be taken by the other fellows. |
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| 26 | 624 |
The chemistry involved in such a device, interestingly enough, is forbidden on Gor. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 860 |
I suppose that this might have been an effect only of the startling alarms of my imagination, they informing me with some vividness as to what it might be to feel its stroke, but I suspect, really, that there was more involved. |
10 |
| 5 | 105 |
There had been seven of us involved in this matter. |
10 |
| 6 | 273 |
I think all of us were terribly frightened, and perhaps the Gorean girls more than the Earth girls, for they surely must have known more of what was going on, or was involved, than we naive Earth women, so new to our collars and chains. |
10 |
| 9 | 276 |
I had some inkling, by now, given my training in the house, of the sorts of things which could be involved in "training," many of which we had not even had time to touch upon. |
10 |
| 11 | 261 |
I supposed that there would have to be a judicious sense of timing involved in such matters, that the time must be long enough to bring the audience to a point of eager readiness, perhaps even impatience, without, on the other hand, dallying so long that they became unruly or hostile. |
10 |
| 11 | 903 |
Many things were doubtless involved. |
10 |
| 11 | 905 |
The dancing of a slave is a thousand times more sensuous than that of a free woman because of the incredible meanings involved, the additional richness which this furnishes, the explosive significance of this comprehension, that she who dances is owned, and, theoretically, could be owned by you. |
10 |
| 11 | 913 |
But I think, too, more simply, that there are skills involved, and that I was an excellent dancer, even at that time. |
10 |
| 11 | 1184 |
This custom is dictated by considerations similar to those involved in the hooding of mating slaves, considerations having to do with the preclusion of interpersonal complications. |
10 |
| 13 | 1208 |
I did not really want to be involved in them. |
10 |
| 14 | 186 |
I did not really want to be involved in these intrigues. |
10 |
| 17 | 144 |
"Interestingly," said my master, "this monument celebrates a victory in which Market of Semris was only indirectly involved. |
10 |
| 17 | 341 |
I did not want to be involved in this. |
10 |
| 20 | 247 |
It would be quite unfortunate for him, I had gathered, if he were to be discovered to have been involved in such work. |
10 |
| 20 | 250 |
For example, he was not directly, personally, involved in these things. |
10 |
| 20 | 265 |
Who could prove that he had been involved in these things? My own testimony, even if it were dragged out of me on the rack, would be only that of a slave; his men would presumably not betray him; and he could always claim that his tavern, the basement, and such, had been used without his knowledge. |
10 |
| 23 | 61 |
It would doubtless be far worse, of course, if I were the actual girl who had been involved in their capture". |
10 |
| 34 | 317 |
"Are the beasts," I asked, "involved in the slaving?" "In a way, yes," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 587 |
The extent and nature of such feelings, I think, are largely a function of the individuals involved. |
10 |
| 2 | 60 |
"What are the numbers involved, and your speculations as to the outcome?" "It is you who wear the scarlet," he said. |
10 |
| 2 | 356 |
They had a typical free woman's misconception of what was involved in total female slavery. |
10 |
| 8 | 578 |
Four or five fellows must have been involved. |
10 |
| 8 | 874 |
Too, of course, she is in fact literally helpless in them, and she realizes that, as well, but the interesting point, here, is the feelings involved. |
10 |
| 9 | 151 |
My second plan, or the second portion of my plan, involved the women from the Crooked Tarn. |
10 |
| 15 | 215 |
But I had little doubt that she sensed what might be involved. |
10 |
| 16 | 45 |
The effectiveness of such a device, however, given the weights involved, and the loss of force in the draw, is much compromised by the necessity of extreme proximity to the target. |
10 |
| 16 | 284 |
To be sure, given the weight involved and the smoothness of the pole she will be unsuccessful. |
10 |
| 16 | 393 |
Although there are various legal qualifications involved, which vary from city to city, effective, or active, possession is generally regarded as crucial from the point of view of the law, such possession being taken, no other claims forthcoming within a specified interval, as conferring legal title... |
10 |
| 16 | 399 |
To be sure, there are risks involved in this sort of thing. |
10 |
| 17 | 422 |
He was in age no more than a lad and she was a mature, fully grown, beautiful woman but in accord with nature's decisions, given the differential parameters involved, those of his size and strength, contrasting so markedly with hers of slightness, delicacy, softness, and beauty, he handled her with ... |
10 |
| 17 | 627 |
The head of the ram was so constructed, and the horns on it so curved back, that it was unlikely, given the forces involved, that it could become lodged in the door. |
10 |
| 18 | 519 |
First, many feel that they are much less secure than, say, slave bracelets, because of the diverse ratios involved, of wrist to hand, and of upper thumb to the thumb joint, at their location points. |
10 |
| 20 | 310 |
"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved in this operat... |
10 |
| 21 | 503 |
"They might be involved, for example," he said, "in a trial". |
10 |
| 21 | 1246 |
One cannot suppose, of course, that just any who chance upon these passages, should such be the case, will understand the institutions and practices involved. |
10 |
| 24 | 479 |
But, too, interestingly, this is not simply a matter of not wishing to see other women exempted from strictures to which they are themselves uncompromisingly subject, but also because they have come to understand not only the gratifications and fulfillments of, but also the fittingness, the justice ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 189 |
Although large-scale slaving was involved in these wars, and was doubtless a sufficient condition for them, hence the name, other considerations, as would be expected, were often involved, as well, such as the levying of tribute and the control of trade routes. |
10 |
| 1 | 527 |
A quarter of an inch, where hundredths of an Ihn are involved, can be a considerable advantage. |
10 |
| 1 | 1242 |
Slavery to the woman is more than a sexual matter, though sexuality is intimately and profoundly involved in it, essentially, crucially and ultimately. |
10 |
| 4 | 65 |
I did not know if Gnieus Lelius was involved in the treason now rampant in Ar or not. |
10 |
| 14 | 165 |
"And Saphronicus is involved?" he asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 174 |
"And you know what is involved in such formulas?" I asked. |
10 |
| 28 | 593 |
There are also certain other considerations involved, such as encouraging her to concentrate on her sensations themselves, in all their incredible particularity, and not on classifying or explaining them. |
10 |
| 31 | 99 |
"Then he was involved in the attacks?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 31 | 194 |
I suppose he was appreciative of this not only for his own sake, but, too, because of certain delicacies of honor involved, these having to do with his family and its importance in the marsh. |
10 |
| 31 | 451 |
Also, it is understandable that many women find it difficult, at first, to adjust to the dramatic volte-face involved in the transition from a lofty, respected free woman to that of a property at the feet of a master. |
10 |
| 32 | 163 |
Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body. |
10 |
| 37 | 143 |
Involved here, too, are questions of identity and meaningfulness. |
10 |
| 37 | 190 |
Nature is involved; I wonder if that is really so hard to understand. |
10 |
| 40 | 32 |
"It must be understood clearly," said the man, "that what I speak now is spoken generally, and spoken by hundreds of others, and thus, if any breach of security is involved in this, it is not one for which I am responsible. |
10 |
| 40 | 33 |
Further, I am not intentionally breaching any confidence, nor, as far as I know, is security even involved in this matter, at least now. |
10 |
| 42 | 15 |
"That I should have been involved," said he, irritably, "seems to me manifest, if, indeed, I be truly your friend". |
10 |
| 44 | 138 |
"You are well aware that honor is not involved in this". |
10 |
| 45 | 67 |
Interestingly enough, such labors, too, given their meaning and what was involved in them, were extremely sexually charged for her, rather like the carrying out of a specific task commanded by a master, except on a more regular, pervasive basis. |
10 |
| 45 | 113 |
The ways of nature are involved here. |
10 |
| 45 | 117 |
The ways of nature are involved here. |
10 |
| 47 | 7 |
I would suppose that this business of the sudden presentation of the slave before the master, as he may never have seen her before, and the suspense and revelation, and delight, involved, tends to increase sales. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 128 |
I was certain, however, from information I had obtained at Holmesk, at the winter camp of Ar, that the high general in the city, Seremides, of Tyros, was involved. |
10 |
| 3 | 11 |
Psychological subtleties, and strategies, are involved. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
I considered my purposes in coming to Ar, the dangers that would be involved. |
10 |
| 3 | 663 |
Only too obviously was this a trained dancer, and yet, too, there was far more than training involved. |
10 |
| 8 | 781 |
On the other hand, despite the niceties involved in such matters, the allocations of power, the legalities, and such, I had little doubt that Phoebe, and, indeed, thousands of other slaves, had a great deal to do with whether they were kept or not. |
10 |
| 8 | 909 |
"No dishonor is involved in such a thing," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 666 |
The instrument which is played by the flute girls is a double flute, too, but I had little doubt that the player involved would not be a flute girl but someone associated with one or another of the theaters of Ar. |
10 |
| 11 | 285 |
"Surely you do not believe the merchant is involved with the Delta Brigade," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 39 |
Various techniques, timings, rhythms, mixings of tongue and lips, and teeth, are involved. |
10 |
| 13 | 170 |
The mistake of the Central Cylinder in this case, of course, was in attempting to impose such reductionism on adult males, even defeated ones, who actually understood what was involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 35 |
If she were a free woman, of course, fitting or not, there would be no legal proprieties involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 431 |
Tonight, I thought, there would be at least four astonished fellows in Ar, and four slaves who, by morning, if only by teaching themselves, by their own actions, would have a much better conception of the profundities, and sensations involved, and significances, of their condition. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
I am fond of such things, and a great admirer of the subtlety, the adroitness, dexterity and skills which are often involved in making them possible. |
10 |
| 17 | 78 |
The throat is not only an ideal aesthetic showplace for the symbol of bondage, displaying it beautifully and prominently, but one which, because of the location, at the throat, and the widths involved, is excellently secure. |
10 |
| 18 | 282 |
It was not that I could not do such things, depending on the weight of the wagon and the various ratios involved, those of the diameters of pegs and holes, and such, but I did not want Marcus to get the wrong impression. |
10 |
| 18 | 523 |
"If I thought there were the least bit of danger involved in this, surely you do not think I would even consider it, do you?" "I think you might," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 524 |
"It all depends on the fellow involved," he said. |
10 |
| 18 | 534 |
"There are serious risks involved," I said to the fellow. |
10 |
| 18 | 549 |
"It should be commensurate, of course, as you are the patron, with your concept of the risks involved and not mine". |
10 |
| 18 | 552 |
"Then I trust that my estimate of the risks involved is a good deal more accurate than yours". |
10 |
| 19 | 613 |
"And yet," I said, "as a highly intelligent woman, you must have realized that some danger would be involved". |
10 |
| 19 | 1376 |
"There are complex ideologies involved," I said, "the purport of which is that nature and biology are mistaken, and the ideologies, whatever they happen to be, for there are several of them, even if contrived and inconsistent, are correct". |
10 |
| 20 | 106 |
"You see," I said, "there are feelings involved". |
10 |
| 20 | 463 |
In such a relationship the first note, if there were to be notes, given the risks involved, would surely issue from the free person. |
10 |
| 21 | 323 |
Naturally this escapade, which is no more than a racy jollity to the young fellows involved, may be viewed with less good humor by the object of their attentions. |
10 |
| 22 | 276 |
"There are other sorts of points more involved. |
10 |
| 22 | 557 |
Was the handsome fellow in some sort of danger? Were there risks involved which might be clear to them, if not to others? She then put her head to the side, brushing up the purple tunic with the side of her head, kissing and licking at his thigh beneath the tunic. |
10 |
| 22 | 634 |
Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local. |
10 |
| 23 | 15 |
When Goreans get the idea that honor is involved they suddenly become quite difficult to deal with. |
10 |
| 23 | 324 |
"There are special circumstances involved". |
10 |
| 24 | 172 |
Thus, the radical chasms involved are not sensed, or appreciated. |
10 |
| 26 | 126 |
In this way that there is a permission involved is explicitly acknowledged. |
10 |
| 26 | 229 |
He would not recognize the note, of course, but he would immediately realize it must have had some role in my business, in which he was now so deeply involved. |
10 |
| 26 | 282 |
Tauntings, it might be mentioned, are usually involved in such denials. |
10 |
| 27 | 344 |
To be sure, much seems to depend on the city and the particular weights involved. |
10 |
| 28 | 62 |
Yet she must know that some in Ar would know that secret, that some would even have access to the papers involved in its proof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1536 |
I presume there were several reasons for that, for example, that we might learn how to concentrate on the tactual sensations involved, that we might be able to kiss well in the dark and, when we were using male slaves to practice on, that we should not become involved with them personally. |
10 |
| 4 | 334 |
But you must understand that much more was involved here. |
10 |
| 4 | 335 |
It was not merely that the line of us, the fifty of us, or so, were well revealed in this position, excellently and uncompromisingly exhibited, but there was involved here more profound meaningfulnesses. |
10 |
| 6 | 175 |
The vulnerability of the palms is a part of the symbolisms involved. |
10 |
| 7 | 279 |
Normally there was little concealment, or secrecy, involved in our movements. |
10 |
| 7 | 343 |
If wars were involved here, women such as I had clearly lost them. |
10 |
| 7 | 975 |
In all intrigues within the garden, involving the outside, a guard, or staff member, is almost always involved. |
10 |
| 9 | 14 |
It seemed to me most likely that she would have been bond, as it did not seem likely that free females, in a world such as this, would be involved in tasks so lowly as the care of prisoners. |
10 |
| 9 | 161 |
I supposed, but I did not know, that there were two women involved with the carts, one for each. |
10 |
| 10 | 489 |
For example, if stalking, or careful hunting is involved, or if an escape must be made quickly, then the robes of concealment, as they are often called, might give some pause to a hunter. |
10 |
| 11 | 968 |
I had gathered one from Earth might once have been involved in some shift in her fortunes. |
10 |
| 11 | 1025 |
But I did not think that was involved here. |
10 |
| 11 | 1350 |
I do not think this is merely because we wish to be purchased by more affluent masters, which suggests that our life may be easier, but because of the personal vanities involved. |
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| 12 | 454 |
The "silver tarsk," I supposed, was a coin, and being a "silver-tarsk girl" would presumably mean that I might be expected to bring as much as a "silver tarsk" to whoever sold me, but all this was not that illuminating as I had no clear idea of the values involved. |
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| 13 | 694 |
I thought I detected something else which was involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 475 |
"There are many symbolisms involved," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 619 |
"Yet," I said, "perhaps now you have a sense of what might be involved". |
10 |
| 14 | 1023 |
"I have haltered your breasts high," I said, "the better to emphasize the line of your body, and the better to show you as one subject to bonds, but it is clear, from the way in which this is done, that deception is not involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 1858 |
"It would not do at all if some fellow on the surface, taking you for a mere slave, and insensitive to the civilities involved, should simply throw you to the stones and put you to his pleasure". |
10 |
| 18 | 93 |
Did they not permit themselves to be captured? Well, then, let them remain in bondage! That is where they belong, and should be! And furthermore, given the irritations and embarrassments involved, they are likely to be considered the lowest of slaves, and treated with great severity and harshness. |
10 |
| 18 | 179 |
Taste is doubtless involved, as the pretty woman dresses up the compartments of the free woman, much as does exquisite furniture, attractive appointments, and such. |
10 |
| 19 | 139 |
Involved, it seems was a matter of umbrage, one of offended pride, indeed, a matter construed somehow, correctly or incorrectly, as one of honor. |
10 |
| 19 | 342 |
If he became involved with her I had little doubt that it would not be he, but it would be she, particularly if she were a slave, who would be found at fault. |
10 |
| 19 | 371 |
I sensed, from the time involved, and from tiny movements, and adjustments, of those about, that the gaunt figure was now no longer facing us. |
10 |
| 19 | 413 |
In this, interestingly, the study of mathematics seems to be essentially involved. |
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| 19 | 475 |
Enough to spill a few drops from the first cup, a libation, honoring Priest-Kings, or perhaps, in the name of Priest-Kings, for what is involved here may have many names, what might hold sway over both men and Priest-Kings, the fates, the mystery. |
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| 23 | 13 |
I do not think I would have thought much about the garmenture if it had not been for the significance involved, from my point of view, at least. |
10 |
| 23 | 14 |
But, you see, there was a principle of sorts involved here. |
10 |
| 23 | 62 |
Oh, yes, I think there was a lesson involved, but I think, too, that the pit master had thought the whole thing rather amusing. |
10 |
| 24 | 898 |
There is sometimes a double frustration involved in these things, that of the slave whose master will not sell her to one to whom she wishes to belong, and that of the fellow who wishes to own her, to whom she will not be sold, for one reason or another, perhaps for spite, perhaps because the owner ... |
10 |
| 31 | 356 |
Their design is such, in short, as to overreach shorter weapons and yet, in virtue of the weights involved, penetrate the defenses of less wieldy blades. |
10 |
| 38 | 110 |
Two guards were at the far end of the long table, also involved with Kaissa. |
10 |
| 39 | 5 |
Too, he had seemed involved in various mysterious arrangements of which we pit slaves could make nothing, comings and goings, and conversations with various functionaries. |
10 |
| 40 | 202 |
"You understand what is involved here," said the officer. |
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| 46 | 243 |
But more astonishingly rewarding to me was the now-present suspicion, if not revelation, that the chemistries involved, the fitting together of parts, must have been mutual. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 271 |
"Doubtless, as an informed, intelligent person," said the young man, "you are aware of the existence of many worlds, and the overwhelming statistical probability that many of these, indeed, given the numbers involved, millions of them, are suitable for life as we know it, and that, further, given th... |
10 |
| 1 | 85 |
She would surmise that the city involved, and such, may be sufficiently obvious, even concealed beneath the cloak of an imposed discretion. |
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| 4 | 275 |
With this power, they could, for example, move their planet from star to star, as it seemed appropriate to them, and, when they wished, if they wished, they might conceal its presence gravitationally, by affecting certain fields involved. |
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| 7 | 120 |
Aesthetics were surely involved here, but, too, other matters, matters having to do with deeper things, meanings and such. |
10 |
| 7 | 135 |
Cooking, here, involved cooking, actually, and not, for example, the simple heating of tasteless materials extracted from colorful packages. |
10 |
| 10 | 142 |
Delicate considerations are sometimes involved, and much depends on a given context, the occasion, the location, who is present and such. |
10 |
| 11 | 254 |
It involved, as well, she was sure, a sense of exultant triumph, that had much to do with their biographies. |
10 |
| 11 | 394 |
The concerns, or tentacles, of whatever combine or conglomerate, or organization, was involved seemed to have far-reaching ramifications, ramifications affecting worlds. |
10 |
| 11 | 491 |
But the utterance had clearly involved no suggested recognition of Ellen as a person, suggesting that she might be a human being in her own right, instead of the animal she was, for that would have been improper, and would have frightened Ellen, particularly as she was in the presence of her master. |
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| 11 | 977 |
"Involved are the fates of two planets, Earth and Gor". |
10 |
| 13 | 56 |
She did not understand at that time that the considerations which had been involved in the design of the city were not merely aesthetic, and such, but military, as well. |
10 |
| 13 | 536 |
It might be noted that the guard had paid little explicit attention to the slaves involved in these transactions, though he had kept track, noting that five slaves had been taken from Treve recently. |
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| 19 | 5 |
He is not involved". |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
To be sure, what all these approaches seem to overlook, though it is probably understood well enough by all, is that much which is very personal, even "chemical," so to speak, is involved in these matters. |
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| 23 | 171 |
Personal reasons were involved, no, not what you think, for she is meaningless". |
10 |
| 26 | 326 |
The psychological aspects involved in these matters have been hinted at. |
10 |
| 26 | 587 |
There would have been too much risk involved, surely, to justify a mere gesture, even for a Gorean. |
10 |
| 26 | 1236 |
There are also subtler needs involved, those to belong, to be ruled, to be owned. |
10 |
| 27 | 72 |
Selections are usually involved, often severe and rigorous selections. |
10 |
| 27 | 84 |
But how is it that she will become even more beautiful in bondage? A number of things are involved, and only three will be mentioned, and but briefly. |
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| 27 | 1159 |
Indeed they, and others, were involved in its seizure and concealment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 137 |
The staging area, however, was destroyed, and somehow, in some way, Tarl Cabot seems to have been involved in its destruction. |
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| 1 | 158 |
I personally suspect that this lapse of attentiveness or this seemingly tolerant permissiveness, or this seeming lack of zeal, on the part of Priest-Kings, and their ships, presumably mostly automated and remotely controlled, has less to do with technological limitations than with some reordering of... |
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| 1 | 236 |
This may be an adaptation to facilitate heat loss in long-distance pursuit and pack hunting, or, again, it may have to do merely with preferences involved in sexual selection, or both. |
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| 1 | 328 |
In order to understand the nature of this torture, one might note that the two females involved had not been selected for their role in this matter at random. |
10 |
| 1 | 439 |
There could be no doubt as to the relationships involved, nor as to the rankings of species, nor as to her own nature, and the appropriateness of it, that of a harmless, caressable pet. |
10 |
| 1 | 461 |
Little of a symbolic nature was involved here. |
10 |
| 1 | 769 |
But certainly more was involved here than merely the eyes of a dominant male, regarding a female. |
10 |
| 1 | 770 |
To be sure, that in itself might have been shocking to her, to find herself looked upon as one might look upon a property, something desirable that one might own, and would be appropriately owned, but a great deal more was involved. |
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| 1 | 1051 |
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes. |
10 |
| 1 | 1173 |
Aesthetic and psychological features are commonly involved, as well, in these matters. |
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| 8 | 156 |
"Who would not be?" "Kurii must be involved subtly in these campaigns, at least at first," said Agamemnon. |
10 |
| 16 | 29 |
Had not the selections, the machinations and subtleties, of Priest-Kings been involved in that remarkable, astonishing juxtaposition? And, too, he wondered if he might have been chosen to stand to her rather as she to him. |
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| 16 | 30 |
Could there have been calculated polarities involved? Might Priest-Kings have been so cruel? Surely not. |
10 |
| 18 | 37 |
The general pervasiveness of the conjunction of the lips amongst humans suggests that something more than simple cultural idiosyncrasy may be involved, presumably on a level not immediately accessible to consciousness, a level in which the act is understood as symbolic, and analogous to, and suggest... |
10 |
| 18 | 69 |
The act may have spoken to her below the daylight of consciousness, like a whispering in the secret night of her belly, but, too, perhaps there was involved no more than a calling of blood to blood, so to speak. |
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| 20 | 13 |
"One supposes it is possible," said the prosecutor, "that a terrible mistake is involved in all this, for the defendant is Kur". |
10 |
| 22 | 170 |
She is goods, and honor, I assure you, is no longer in the least involved". |
10 |
| 26 | 103 |
"There are risks involved, of course," said Peisistratus, "once we have landed the cargo, our selections, the slaves, and have forgone the use of superior weapons". |
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| 29 | 137 |
"The phenomenon is so widely spread, if not absolutely universal, that there must be genetic predispositions involved". |
10 |
| 30 | 87 |
"Yes!" "There are skills involved in all slave acts," said Cabot, "even in so simple a thing as the kisses of slaves". |
10 |
| 32 | 287 |
If she is permitted on the surface of the couch, there is often a ritual involved, in which she kneels at the foot of the couch, or toward its foot, on the side, and lifts the coverings, and kisses them humbly, and then, when permitted, crawls to the couch's surface, from the bottom, or near the bot... |
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| 34 | 227 |
"I suspect the Lady Bina is involved in this," said Grendel. |
10 |
| 36 | 183 |
"If authority were involved, he should have given it to Lord Grendel, if only that he might give it to another". |
10 |
| 53 | 99 |
Charges are precious, and, at the distances involved, would be unlikely of much efficacy. |
10 |
| 53 | 181 |
One supposes some sort of biological engineering was involved, something intended to free the Kur female from some of procreation's more grievous burdens". |
10 |
| 61 | 211 |
I only hoped then that a fellow would not be involved whose name consisted of three syllables, as well, and my heart sank, when I learned her accoster was named Cestiphon. |
10 |
| 63 | 82 |
There would thus have to be a purpose other than her own involved in all this. |
10 |
| 63 | 119 |
We might suppose that given the odds involved and the importance of Lord Grendel that the Kurii of Agamemnon would have been charged with his capture, that he might be later exhibited and dealt with according to the dictates of the war and day, but it seems they had no such charge. |
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| 65 | 31 |
"Humans are not involved in this". |
10 |
| 79 | 469 |
"Such things are irrelevant to the realities involved," he said. |
10 |
| 79 | 520 |
"There are forces involved here which you do not understand, forces concerned even with worlds". |
10 |
| 80 | 196 |
Cabot, and some humans, it might be noted, do not seem fully aware of the momentous distinctions involved in such matters. |
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| 81 | 44 |
"There are usually a number of parameters involved," said Peisistratus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 59 |
"I do not see how honor is involved in this sort of thing," I said, "courage perhaps, but how honor?" "For us, honor is involved," said Tajima. |
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| 22 | 413 |
What might be involved in these plans was not clear to me, but I was confident they involved, ultimately, no local objective. |
10 |
| 1 | 265 |
Two other factors, too, I suspect, were involved. |
10 |
| 1 | 270 |
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo... |
10 |
| 2 | 139 |
Doubtless a value judgment is involved in such things. |
10 |
| 3 | 778 |
There were doubtless several possible networks involved in such matters. |
10 |
| 4 | 41 |
There was nothing unusual in this, and the circumspection and alertness involved, the care taken in one's passage, would have been typical of one of my caste, and certainly in negotiating an unfamiliar and perhaps dangerous terrain. |
10 |
| 5 | 261 |
Needless to say there are codes involved, which may be changed when deemed appropriate. |
10 |
| 5 | 326 |
From Lady Constantina I had learned that a ship was somehow involved, and tarns. |
10 |
| 12 | 82 |
The two names given were used by humans on the Steel World in question to refer to the individuals involved. |
10 |
| 12 | 93 |
The ships of such slavers were furnished currently, or originally, as the case might be, by the Steel Worlds, as the sophisticated technologies involved would be far beyond that of Gorean humans, and, currently, at least, beyond those of Earth, who were not even subjected to the weapon and technolog... |
10 |
| 12 | 117 |
He would not be involved in the complex arrangements which had surrounded the arrival of Miss Wentworth on Gor, her application to a particular deceit, and so on. |
10 |
| 12 | 179 |
When I first came to Gor I saw a tapestry depicting the tarn hunting of such beasts, and, from the sizes involved, I had thought the tapestry to be based on some fantasy or myth. |
10 |
| 14 | 30 |
These injuries seemed to be accepted with equanimity, save where it was suspected that intent was involved. |
10 |
| 14 | 114 |
One could assess the probable arrival of the quarrel from the reaction of the archer, the stock pounding back against his shoulder, and the distance involved. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
Certainly the recruitments of the Pani here and there, the several landings on the northern beaches, the numbers of men involved, the securing and importing of supplies, would be difficult to conceal. |
10 |
| 16 | 115 |
If one is familiar only with the sham of combat one might well panic in a different situation, when no charade is involved. |
10 |
| 19 | 141 |
This was possible, I supposed, but I would not have cared to be the fellow involved in the demonstration. |
10 |
| 22 | 22 |
One interesting case involved a woman's intention to arrange for the capture and enslavement of a hated rival, but it was she instead who found herself stripped and chained, and was delivered to the rival as her serving slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 29 |
One supposes more is involved in such things than the turn of a hip, the rounding of a calf, or forearm, the slimness of an ankle, the slenderness of a throat, such things. |
10 |
| 22 | 110 |
A free woman might, of course, look upon the former Miss Wentworth and, in virtue of the brevity of a tunic, perhaps, or a brand, or a collar, easily see her as slave, but they might sense, too, to their jealous fury, that something less visible and far more profound was involved, that she now, supp... |
10 |
| 22 | 249 |
The skills involved in such a display are rare. |
10 |
| 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". |
10 |
| 23 | 112 |
When a great deal of food is involved, particularly in the open, or in large halls, as in Torvaldsland, the fires are almost always narrow, and long, as this increases the amount of food which can be simultaneously prepared, and allows easy access to it, from both sides of the fire. |
10 |
| 25 | 150 |
To be sure, risks are involved, as the male animal is usually wary, alert, aggressive, large, and armed, so to speak, wickedly horned, sharply hoofed, and such. |
10 |
| 26 | 49 |
But I did not think Lord Nishida was involved in this. |
10 |
| 31 | 22 |
They will not be involved in the selections". |
10 |
| 31 | 25 |
"He is not involved". |
10 |
| 33 | 35 |
"I think," said Lord Nishida, "that a wager is involved, or perhaps a contest of sorts, amongst spirits, powerful beings". |
10 |
| 34 | 69 |
"That was not clear at the time, I gather," I said, "but it seems reasonably clear now that the agency involved must be the Pani, say, Lord Nishida, or Lord Okimoto, or those in whose behalf they labor". |
10 |
| 38 | 99 |
Three areas were involved, each on its own deck. |
10 |
| 38 | 101 |
Three ramps were involved, one leading from the third lower deck to the second lower deck, one from the second lower deck to the first lower deck, and one from the first lower deck to the top deck, or open deck, once a great hatch had been rolled back. |
10 |
| 38 | 303 |
Clearly Lord Nishida's plans involved tarns beyond those of the present cavalry. |
10 |
| 43 | 127 |
More was involved here than bladecraft. |
10 |
| 43 | 128 |
Much was involved here which might well give a leader pause. |
10 |
| 43 | 166 |
Yet there was a hunt, a sport involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 558 |
A negligible gift thus, at least, demonstrated that Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot understood and respected his feelings, acknowledging, in this way, the accepted disparity involved, that the values involved were incommensurable. |
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| 1 | 480 |
It was not as though boldness, or intention, had been involved. |
10 |
| 3 | 166 |
She, and many others like her, both men and women, had been involved in the conspiracy by means of which Ar had fallen, in the opening of Ar's gates, in the razing of her walls, in the machinations by means of which Ar had been subdued and looted for months. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
A distraction is involved. |
10 |
| 7 | 83 |
To be sure, unless honor is thought to be involved, which may lead to blood and death, such matters are usually resolved amicably, perhaps by an apology and the payment of a use coin, A's putting one of his slaves, B's choice, at the disposal of B, or such. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
There was secrecy with respect to the figures involved, as would be expected, as with the number of catapults, and such, but rumors suggested a current count of something like one hundred and seventy healthy tarns on board. |
10 |
| 9 | 140 |
I wondered if Tyrtaios or Seremides was involved. |
10 |
| 9 | 228 |
Perhaps, I thought, they, in so small a number, will merely attempt to hold the door, to prevent mutineers, should things turn against them, from withdrawing through it, perhaps to discard weapons somewhere, and thence to lose themselves amongst hundreds of others, innocent others not involved in th... |
10 |
| 9 | 402 |
I sensed that it had been only after the great ship had been at sea for a time that the risks involved in assembling such men were better understood. |
10 |
| 9 | 403 |
The Pani, I suspected, perhaps because of their cultural background, in which certain values might be presupposed and never questioned, might have underestimated the dangers involved. |
10 |
| 12 | 118 |
But, too, I thought, and shivered, perhaps more was involved, more than I had suspected? Might it not be I, Callias, who would serve to lure Seremides in? Clearly there was bad blood between the tarnsman and Seremides. |
10 |
| 12 | 332 |
Where large numbers of men are involved they are particularly important, as one is not likely to know everyone. |
10 |
| 12 | 545 |
This commonly occurs, and, doubtless, a number of reasons are involved, ranging from the physiological to the psychological, from the physical to the emotional. |
10 |
| 12 | 548 |
Also, that there were clearly two men involved is worth noting". |
10 |
| 17 | 55 |
Not only is the barbarian slave often intelligent and beautiful, such things involved in their selection, but, commonly, as well, she is hot, devoted, and dutiful. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
"I need only broadcast the matter of your former identity, your fugitive status, the bounty involved, and such". |
10 |
| 25 | 7 |
In this way, the two former highest, richest women in Ar, both traitresses, both muchly involved in the Great Treason, both wanted in Ar, both now slaves, were forced to confront one another, in their current humiliation, shame, and degradation. |
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| 25 | 110 |
In this way, the two former highest, richest women in Ar, both traitresses, both muchly involved in the Great Treason, both wanted in Ar, both now slaves, were forced to confront one another, in their current humiliation, shame, and degradation. |
10 |
| 25 | 327 |
A similar act, perhaps more clearly symbolic, is involved when the slave, kneeling, licks and kisses the master's whip, held to her lips. |
10 |
| 28 | 65 |
To be sure, the fellows were well aware of the restrictions involved. |
10 |
| 30 | 66 |
"How would you know of it, had you not been involved in the matter?" "If I designed the matter," said Seremides, "why would I betray it, and thus preclude its fruition?" "Perhaps that one you fear might be thereby slain," said Tereus. |
10 |
| 36 | 81 |
"A personal enmity, or resentment, may have been involved there," said the stranger. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
"The profit involved in such a transaction," said the captain, "may be considerably outweighed by a possible loss". |
10 |
| 36 | 348 |
"Assassins are involved in this," said a man. |
10 |
| 37 | 1249 |
"Is there not some sort of monstrous mistake, or deceit, or fraud, involved in all this?" I asked. |
10 |
| 37 | 1349 |
Subtleties or secrecies seemed to be involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 81 |
"If even one were secretly involved here, providing ships, supplies, personnel, weapons, and such, matters might precede apace, and if one were to be successfully involved, it seems then there might be another, and another, and so on". |
10 |
| 5 | 18 |
Something more was involved here, of course, than the simple animosity of women, particular and generalized, for rivals, or the usual suspicion of that which is other than oneself, or different. |
10 |
| 7 | 345 |
I had needs, of course, but little more was involved, at first, than curiosity and uneasiness. |
10 |
| 8 | 693 |
Yet, at times, how meaningless are these prudential, mercenary considerations! Does the slave not hope that she will be purchased by a strong, handsome, powerful, virile master, rich or not, who will know well what to do with her, before whom she will know herself well in her collar? Are we not all ... |
10 |
| 8 | 1834 |
One thing I did not realize originally about your bridges is the military utility involved in their design, that they may be blocked and defended by small groups of armed men; five may defend against a hundred, because of the hundred only five can engage at a time. |
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| 8 | 1913 |
"There is a politics involved in such things," said Astrinax. |
10 |
| 10 | 187 |
A double cruelty is involved in this. |
10 |
| 10 | 264 |
Accordingly, it would be difficult for one of my former world to understand the cataclysmic reversal of fortune involved should such a creature, formerly so powerful, exalted, and revered, suddenly find herself stripped and collared, a caught beast, helpless at a stranger's feet. |
10 |
| 10 | 627 |
The point of appearing impoverished was involved in this, as well, as the impoverished attract less attention and are less likely to be the target of aggression. |
10 |
| 10 | 839 |
How could she understand so little? Might it not have been better if she had undergone some frustrations and disappointments? Had she no sense of her place, or her limitations, or that limitations even existed? Did she think that only a dozen or so individuals might be involved, as in a tiny village... |
10 |
| 10 | 865 |
"But surely," she said, "companioning is not always involved in such matters". |
10 |
| 11 | 51 |
All in all, as you may have surmised, my bondage in their loft, if one may so characterize it, was a fairly light one, save, of course, for labors involved in the business of the laundering, which business did accrue, from month to month, a small store of copper tarsks, some delivered, some collecte... |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
"Some fear a Kur may be involved," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 95 |
Sometimes a master's vanity is involved, and he chains the girl publicly in order to display her, that he may be envied, that his good fortune may be recognized, or such. |
10 |
| 15 | 105 |
Aside from the indubitable perfection of the custody involved, it is also a ritual of the mastery, in which the master shows the slave that she is a slave, an animal, and a possession, which may be chained at his pleasure. |
10 |
| 15 | 108 |
Too, of course, the chaining has its effect on the slave, who is fully aware of what is involved. |
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