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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	115	He paused, noting my lack of comprehension.	10
3	259	Black tarns are used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicolored, resplendent tarns are bred for warriors who wish to ride proudly, regardless of the lack of camouflage.	10
10	62	"Is she of High Caste?" asked Mintar, apparently puzzled at my lack of interest in his bargaining.	10
12	60	I knew that I would not, some days hence, reach the delta of the Vosk and the cities in the delta except perhaps as a bound corpse, withered by exposure and the lack of water.	10
18	59	There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, ...	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	80	This was contrary to the ways of Gor, for normally only the habiliments of outlaws and exiles, men without a city, lack the identifying devices of which the Gorean is so proud.	10
7	63	"That I can see by the lack of insignia on your shield and tunic".	10
9	88	What struck me most about them had nothing to do with caste, but rather their lack of spirit.	10
9	112	Disbelief, lack of comprehension, was written on their features.	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	73	It is eaten with much the same lack of attention that we normally breathe air.	10
14	163	Misk looked at me and his antennae had a certain lack of resilience and the golden hairs had seemed to lose some of their sheen.	10
23	22	Because of the lack of coldness in the body I listened for a long time for a heartbeat.	10
27	109	I was already familiar with the astounding patience of Priest-Kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of Priest-Kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	305	I supposed, in spite of their apparent lack of concern, the hearts of most of the Turian girls were beating rapidly.	10
15	5	Indeed, envoys had flown on tarnback to the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci, assuring them of Turia's lack of hostile intentions towards them, envoys accompanied by rich gifts.	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	100	Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...	10
1	66	His head was totally devoid of hair, even to the lack of eyebrows.	10
7	73	The ship was disklike, as are the ships of Priest-Kings, but it had observation apertures, which the ships of Priest-Kings lack.	10
11	114	"Surely," said Flaminius, "you do not think we lack men who are familiar with the world from which these slaves have been brought.	10
17	140	Gangs of men, often armed, roamed streets and bridges, apparently undisturbed by Warriors, their depredations not curbed; and, startlingly, when captured and sent to the Central Cylinder, or to the Cylinder of Justice, pretexts would be found for their release, customarily on legal technicalities or...	10
17	756	There was a rawness in her play, a lack of polish, but I sensed myself in the presence of one for whom the game might have been created.	10
19	47	The girls, when brought to the Curulean, are braceleted and naked; they have been chained in slave wagons; they are brought to a large, heavy, barred gate in the rear of the large building, through which they are led; the bracelets are, of course, to secure them; the lack of clothing is simply to sa...	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1266	I wished that I might have some opportunity to show my lack of fear of her, my contempt for her, that slave! In these days, as our training in the Koroban pens drew to its conclusion, I forgot both about Haakon of Skjern and Rask of Treve.	10
12	433	Moreover, I had had an opportunity to be revenged on Verna, before whom I had demonstrated my superiority and lack of fear.	10
16	260	Mistresses, like Masters, do not brook the least lack of deference in their properties.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	116	With a similar lack of ceremony Marlenus had fastened her collar on her.	10
15	275	From one of the abandoned crates, discarded now because of its weight and its putative lack of utility, I spilled a quantity of chains to the grass.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	450	Interestingly, because of the lack of surface water, the nights, the sun gone, are cool, even chilly at times.	10
5	794	Let such weaklings rejoice in their unmanning, and pride themselves on their lack of virility.	10
10	238	"We of Two Scimitars," said the merchant, "cannot be held accountable for the lack of sophistication in such simple rogues".	10
18	113	"I hoped," said T'Zshal, "to teach you the sun and the lack of water, that you might be dissuaded from your madness".	10
18	114	"You have well taught us, T'Zshal," said I, "the lack of water and the meaning of the sun".	10
25	432	"Of great danger to us now," said Hassan, "is her lack of a brand".	10
26	269	They lack the legalities, and the collar.	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	547	Unfortunately for these entrepreneurs, their greed and lack of control over the metal shops resulted in the widespread proliferation of the dina brand.	10
4	261	That lack, I supposed, could be simply supplied.	10
5	154	Women, of course, it might be noted, lack the strength to bend this bow.	10
5	590	Lack of compliance by a slave girl to a command in the Gorean world is unthinkable.	10
7	675	Doubtless they would lack the patience and skill to get all from a girl.	10
10	136	Once I had nearly had my throat cut for my lack of knowledge of "Bina," or slave beads.	10
22	164	Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell.	10
24	97	"And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.	10
25	146	"Add to this," said he, "the convenience of a simple substitution cipher, the absence of the necessity for a code book, the lack of need for cipher wheels or deciphering tables, and you have an arrangement of circumstances which maximizes not only security but, under the appropriate conditions, ease...	10
26	223	Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the Home Stone of the city as his own.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	302	This lack, however, is supplied by numerous public kitchens and tables.	10
6	887	I lack only the brand and collar!" "Interesting," said Ram.	10
13	1	Imnak Broaches to me a Topic of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu One of the problems in approaching tabuk on the tundra is the lack of cover.	10
31	147	They take their lack of appetite, their incapacity to feel, as a merit.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	576	"I have heard," I said, "that on that world women are piteous slaves, only that they lack masters".	10
14	577	"That lack," she said, "in my case, on this world, will surely be made up".	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	763	You lack their aggressiveness and belligerence, which are probably indexed to an unusual amount, for a woman, of male hormones in their bodies.	10
10	184	She had done these things with the same habitual routine, the same lack of attention and concern, with which she might have hung up a piece of wearing apparel or replaced a comb and brush on a vanity.	10
12	215	I had discounted such matters in virtue of what I had conjectured were consequences of Gorean influence and a lack of practice, over years, in the language.	10
34	165	Perhaps of greater interest is the fact that, despite their lack of legal standing, and their strict status as no more than a vendible commodity, no more than a curvaceous, collared property, they are acclaimed and celebrated, and relished and sought after, with gold and leather, with lust and intel...	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	26	Ar's committed infantry had been outnumbered but its mobility and its support by their tarn cavalry had compensated to some extent for its lack of weight as a striking force.	10
24	310	Manhood among them is measured by its lack.	10
29	142	"Does this lack of opposition or interference on the part of pirates as powerful and well organized as those of Ragnar Voskjard not seem puzzling to you?" "Yes," said Callisthenes.	10
29	143	"What would you conclude from this lack of interest or action on their part?" I asked.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	82	This lack of privacy, to be expected, given the lowly condition of the slave, is revealed even in details so obvious as almost to be taken for granted, such as the fact that slave kennels and slave alcoves are almost invariably barred, rather than given opaque portals, say, with observation aperture...	10
20	198	At her least pretension or lack of deference any free person might beat her.	10
21	839	"Yes, Master! I am now happy! I now rejoice! I have my collar! And I pity so the poor slaves who lack theirs!" "Perhaps they will find their collars," I said.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	582	In their way, given my lack of knowledge in these matters, they had been trying to take advantage of me.	10
13	501	But they were not aware, of course, of the reason for my lack of promptitude, which reason, naturally, I dared not confess to them.	10
13	985	"Similarly," I said, "you will learn to serve in whatever position your master dictates and in whatever garb, or lack of garb, he pleases".	10
13	1513	"To be sure," I said, "'white' in the context of 'white-silk girl' tends less to suggest purity and innocence to the Gorean than ignorance and naiveté, and a lack of experience.	10
18	173	I now, for the first time, fully, understood Grunt's earlier noticed lack of ease.	10

Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	7	The lack of braiding, thus, usually, draws an additional distinction between the slaves and free women of the red savages.	10
14	171	They are flowers and, it seems, lack the senses which would enable them to understand such things as hungers and storms.	10
35	179	Similarly, the lack of activity on the part of the vision seeker may not be stimulatory to the sleen's attack response, Akihoka tells a story about his own vision seeking.	10
37	168	How lasciviously, how desirably, she lay before me, and yet with what seeming indifference, with what a seeming innocence, with what a seeming lack of awareness! She sighed, and smiled, and looked away.	10
37	189	How shamelessly she lay before me, and yet with what an apparent lack of awareness! The she-sleen was cunning, and delicious.	10
47	197	Due to lack of competition their battle skills, originally developed in connection with the kaiila, would presumably have declined.	10
47	198	Similarly, due also to a lack of competition, and the merciless selections of war, they had not yet become to the tarn as the normal warrior in the Barrens is to his kaiila, namely, a member of a matched fighting unit.	10
54	171	During their time with the Sleen apparently Max and Kyle Hobart, unable to help themselves any longer, and finding the girls staked out, naked, in a desolate place, presumably as punishment, perhaps for some minor infraction, or some supposed lack of total pleasingness, had raped them.	10

Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	233	I considered the lack of springs in such a vehicle, the high, iron-rimmed wheels, with their lack of cushioning, the primitiveness of the roads it must traverse.	10
1	304	Too, I can sense that you lack her incisive intellect, her ferocity, her hardness, her cruelty".	10
3	535	"Here," she said, "in point of fact, aside from all questions of legality or moral propriety, or the lack thereof, putting all such questions aside for the moment, for they are actually irrelevant to the facts, people are, I assure you, owned".	10
4	77	At any rate, whatever might have been the reason, the people, reassuringly, from my point of view, seemed neither scandalized nor surprised by my lack of a veil.	10
6	517	But here on Gor I was clearly aware of my lack of fulfillment, instead of, as on Earth, usually only vaguely or obscurely aware of it.	10
7	86	How keenly must slaves be aware, I thought, of the nature of their attire, and its meaning, of its revelatory brevity and its lack of a nether closure, of how such an apparel publicly brandished their beauty and, dismayingly, denied to their sweetest and most delicious intimacies the least of shield...	10
7	92	It will also make plausible your lack of a brand, should the matter arise.	10
21	41	Too, it is expensive to rent sleen, and Speusippus, who was a poor man, might even lack the means to do so.	10
36	638	This suggests space, and certainly a lack of clutter.	10

Book 20. (14 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	314	"Do you hesitate," she asked, "because of some lack of certitude as to my nature, for fear of some impropriety or subtle lack of fittingness in such an action?" Samos shrugged.	10
1	760	Given her lack of training, a lack which could, of course, be easily remedied, she was not bad, really.	10
1	392	"You lack the talent, the intelligence of the slave," he said.	10
2	878	The curtain itself was drawn shut, but it did not appear, from the look of it, from its lack of tautness, to be secured from the inside.	10
6	354	"Your generosity overwhelms me," cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd.	10
8	155	They also lack the tracking capabilities of the sleen.	10
8	156	Similarly they lack its intelligence.	10
10	633	"Forgive me, Lady," I said, "the lack of a proper slave hood".	10
12	93	Further, sometimes to my irritation, he often, too often, in my opinion, seemed to produce these things with an apparent lack of effort, with an almost insolent ease, with an almost arrogant nonchalance.	10
14	352	Indeed, the lack of the pack odor apparently triggered the attack response.	10
16	665	"It is only that some lack the collar and brand".	10
16	1084	Bina looked down upon it with a lack of understanding.	10
20	147	I know of no way to prove the existence of glory to those who lack the senses for its apprehension.	10
21	105	Given their relative accessibility and their apparent lack of value common thieves would not be likely to find them of interest.	10

Book 21. (12 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1613	It has to do, I suppose, with the venomous jealousy of a woman who has taken an unhappy path, a road commended to her by many but one which she has discovered leads only to her ultimate frustration, misery, and lack of fulfillment.	10
18	212	Too, given her arduous labors, her intimate performances, her total service, her absolute obligations, her distinctive clothing, or lack of clothing, her collar, her brand, her entire mode of life, there is little danger that she will forget that she is a slave".	10
20	18	I smiled at their childish enthusiasm, at their lack of maturity.	10
21	135	If he had flaws as a regent presumably they might be due to his lack of information, or perhaps to a certain unwarranted optimism, or untutored innocence or naivety.	10
22	400	Too, of course, the lack of veiling permitted the slave makes her the more likely target of roving tarnsmen, brigands, slavers, and such.	10
24	476	You have now discovered your antecedents and connections, so to speak, and your exact place, or, perhaps better put, your exact lack of a place, in civil and social relationships".	10
25	968	The culture with which she had been familiar was, at that time unbeknownst to her, for lack of a contrast or alternative, a gray, arid, unnatural, mechanistic culture.	10
25	1373	These things would be connected with her lack of feminine fulfillment, she not finding herself in her place, in her natural biological relationship, that of submissive to dominant, to the male of her species.	10
25	1375	Too, they sometimes produced an envy and resentment of men, whom she then, perhaps with some justice, would blame for this lack of fulfillment.	10
26	955	All you lack are some minor legal technicalities, such as the collar".	10
29	38	It had been the lack of sleep, I gathered.	10
29	52	Gorean garments generally lack pockets.	10

Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	206	My anger, my frustration, is motivated, I think, not by their manhood, and that I am not a man, as seems to be the case almost universally with the women you despise, if we can believe physicians in the matter, but rather by their lack of manhood, which denies me as well as them, which keeps me from...	10
5	203	In the latter range of our studies some of the girls were even instructed in the rudiments of what, perhaps for lack of a better word, might be described, using the Earth expression, as "ethnic dance".	10
10	177	To be sure, this lack of self-division, of self-conflict, tends to be characteristic of Gorean males.	10
10	442	If these things were so, then I supposed that it was natural that my virginity, or lack of it, might also, at least in some cases, affect my price.	10
11	1611	My needs, and my reality, were now revealing its lack of soundness, its historical eccentricity, indexed to outmoded ideologies and conditions, its idiosyncrasy, its absurdity, making it obsolete, and overthrowing it.	10
13	460	I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b...	10
20	185	Accordingly, for various reasons, such as lack of citizenship, an inability to properly exercise it, resulting in effective disenfranchisement, or, most often, a fierce independence, repudiating allegiance to anything save one's own village, the farmers, or peasantry, are more likely to suffer from ...	10
29	182	There is a Gorean saying that only Priest-Kings, outlaws and slaves lack Home Stones.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	612	Most Gorean garments, a notable exception being those of artisans, lack pockets.	10
5	255	"We might speak of such things as your lack of womanliness, your arrested or stunted femininity, your belligerent self-denial, your paucity of gracefulness, your mannish pretensions, your subtle clumsiness, your subtle awkwardness, your various inhibitions, your tightness, and such," I said.	10
6	320	"I would not trouble myself, if I were you," I said, "about my lack of slave attractiveness".	10
17	638	In this, however, they would lack the momentum generated by the full movement of the ram, utilizing the full arcs of the leather cradles.	10
21	322	"The charges, if you are a free woman," he said, "are several, such as the intent to deceive with respect to caste, the jeopardizing of fellow citizenesses by discarding traditional concealments and modesties, to your own advantage in the event of the taking of the city, for example, going barefoot ...	10
21	947	There are a number of reasons for this, for example, they tend to eschew face veiling, thereby shamelessly exposing their features to public inspection, a convenience, incidentally, for woman hunters; they think little of baring portions of their body unthinkable to the Gorean free woman, particular...	10
21	1208	The usual lack of sleeves in slave garments is presumably to reveal more of the slave, and it also attests to the Gorean's recognition of the soft beauty of a woman's arms.	10
23	152	"Then, if you will not punish me," she said, "permit me to serve you as abjectly and intimately, as beautifully, as lovingly, as shamelessly as I can, within the limitations of my ignorance and lack of training".	10
24	579	"Thus, by such means as provocative dress and habiliments, baring even her calves, hoping then to be taken for a lowly, beautiful, meaningless maid, by even refusing to cut her hair on behalf of the city's needs, an act by means of which she hoped to appear more attractive to strong men, more attrac...	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	926	"I would well chastise him, and with blows, did he not retract his judgment, belabor him for his lack of taste!" In fairness to the burly fellow, it had been Temione the free woman against whom he had leveled that charge, not Temione, the slave.	10
14	63	You lack supplies and support.	10
18	318	More than one fellow has been retaken due to carelessness, due to a lack of vigilance, due to haste, within no more than a few hundred yards of safety.	10
28	30	Had Ina been a slave I think she might have been disturbed by this lack of attention to her, and active consideration of her not inconsiderable charms.	10
31	558	To be sure the youth, had it not been, presumably, for his haste, or lack of experience, might have done far better for himself than he had.	10
36	35	This was, in spite of the lack of sleeves, clearly the garment of a free woman.	10
45	53	The lack of such a closure increases their sense of vulnerability, and is, in its way, a subtle reminder of just how much they are always, and immediately, at the mercy of their masters.	10

Book 25. (18 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	375	For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with ...	10
4	23	"Yes, indeed," I said, rather loudly, for I saw some fellows look about at Marcus, "it is a cursed lie for any to suggest that the men of Ar might lack courage.	10
6	41	In further defense I might point out that many warriors, for no reason that is clear to me, seem to take pride in a putative lack of literacy.	10
9	375	Would the Hinrabian be suitable, did they think, as a conciliatory offering, or a partial reparation payment, to the offended Cosians? Would she be acceptable? Would she be adequate? Or would such an offering insult them, or offend them, in its lack of worth, in its paltriness? I smiled.	10
10	371	On the other hand, most Gorean slavers are anxious to bring this usual lack of veiling on Earth to the attention of their customers.	10
10	373	Who would not relish getting his bracelets on such a shameless, lascivious slut, so natural a slave, one so meaningless and despicable, one so little deserving of respect or dignity, one so appropriately and perfectly destined for bondage, one belonging in the collar? And needless to say, the common...	10
12	59	Second, the employment, or lack of employment, of the whip.	10
12	76	Secondly, one might allude to the employment, or lack of employment, of the whip.	10
12	406	At the root of their hatred, perhaps, lies their own unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, their envy of the slave, joyful in her rightful place in nature.	10
13	174	Irreparable damage would result to the gene pool and the human race might actually, interestingly, eventually, for lack of will and joy, cease to thrive, and perhaps later become extinct.	10
16	8	"Certainly an apparent lack of judgment," I granted him.	10
22	137	Stayed, the small group awaited the arrival of the palanquin, which now approached them in a stately fashion, the bearers impressive in their lack of haste, befitting the undoubted dignity of the palanquin's occupant.	10
22	439	The natural woman was led, strangely enough, to deplore herself for her lack of unnaturalness.	10
22	649	A similar, interesting historical detail, though not particularly pertinent to Gor, as most Gorean garments lack buttons, is that, on Earth, men's shirts, jackets, coats, and such, have the buttons on the right side, so that the opening of the garment is held down, and to the right.	10
23	376	I did not feel it was really fair of Boots to call attention to my possible lack of expertise in these matters.	10
24	178	That, too, gives the Gorean free woman status, and its lack on the part of a woman of Earth places her much on the level of animals and slaves.	10
27	1101	And perhaps in secret, slave, you should practice it, for a lack of deference, or perceived deference, in a response in the future, when you find yourself publicly collared, might earn you a beating".	10
28	87	And interestingly, it seemed that many of Ar, particularly the young, the less experienced, the more gullible, the more innocent, and, too, perhaps, the most fearful of hardship, responsibility and danger, and their attendant risks, those unaccustomed to such things, those who had always received an...	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	66	Perhaps it was the lack of diffidence, the lack of apology, in their speech, which struck me.	10
10	996	The sows are smaller and lack tusks.	10
11	1620	To be sure, I think there are others who also lack caste, really.	10
18	142	On Earth, the garb in which we found ourselves, its brevity, its neckline, its lack of a nether closure, and such, would presumably have been regarded as scandalous, particularly in busy, public places.	10

Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	670	Use it! Trust in it to compensate for your lack of training, for your lack of skill, in slave dance.	10
2	4	It is true however that such as she, and her sisters, so to speak, under discipline, are quickly brought into line, the gentlest and the sweetest, and those who hitherto, perhaps in their unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, in their vanities and impatience, and haughtiness, were not only permitted ...	10
2	153	As her body grew older, and began to dry, and wither, and tire, and began to regard her ever more reproachfully, and sadly, in the mirror, and she went through her change of life, which had been a terrible and troubling time for her, in her loneliness, and in her lack of love and children, she remai...	10
4	139	"I thought that subscribers to your ideology methodologically affected bellicose facades of what they mistakenly believe to be masculine body language, for example, leaning back, and throwing the legs apart, indicating, supposedly, their masculinity, and openness, their lack of inhibitions, and such...	10
4	336	She now realizes that much of her earlier malaise, her headache, and such, if not associated with the alcohol she had imbibed, which seems unlikely, was presumably associated with her lack of nourishment.	10
7	15	She suspected that she could now better withstand, and resist, the lack of food, at least for a longer time.	10
11	528	"I suspect," said her companion, "that there is more excitement in store for you, and I doubt that you will, in the future, lack for stimulation.	10
11	857	"Master?" "Surely you remember my earlier remarks," he said, "when I was explaining the lack of attire in a charming waitress".	10
12	243	She fears she might be chided for a lack of candor, and perhaps with the leather.	10
12	290	Certainly those on her former world who most shamelessly exploited the rhetoric of freedom did not lack freedom, but rather wanted to use such rhetorics, and allied pressures and subterfuges, in order to have goods, unfair advantages, special privileges, and such, given to them, such as economic res...	10
16	863	She, though perhaps scarcely clad, or stripped, and kneeling, must be in many ways very "ladylike," for lack of a better word.	10
18	112	She had been switched more than once for her lack of skill in such matters.	10
18	364	It occurred to her that she had perhaps been fortunate, given her unimportance and her lack of value here, to have been purchased by a tarnkeeper.	10
19	360	They can do whatever they want with us! How fortunate, she thought, that this fact has been concealed from the men of Earth, that they, perhaps in their simplicity, perhaps in their lack of imagination, perhaps in their naively uncritical acceptance of imposed conditioning programs, are unaware of i...	10
26	184	How much tragedy there was on that barren world! Did the women there not understand the meaning of their anxieties, their depressions, their displacements, their projections, their confusions, their sense of futility, their anomie, their emotional starvation, their sense of loss, of estrangement, of...	10
26	186	The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw...	10
27	3274	At least, she thought, it is common rope, and not a leash of knotted leather, or knotted binding fiber, because she knew that knots in such materials might be drawn so tightly that her small, delicate fingers, those of a woman, might lack the strength to undo them.	10

Book 28. (21 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10
1	238	A consequence of this lack of hair, or fur, is that the species, in its wanderings and migrations, certainly into colder areas, must clothe itself.	10
1	589	Shortly thereafter, she seemed to understand, perhaps in part from her distraught reflection in the barrier, with a sudden, poignant and alarmed fullness of realization, her complete lack of covering, and she became, too, then, perhaps for the first time, more acutely aware that she was not alone in...	10
1	658	But in certain cases, with rational creatures, this lack of communication is deliberate, and calculated to unravel, so to speak, its victim, who, perplexed and frightened, is denied an accounting of his alleged faults or charges.	10
1	812	He spoke to her, it seemed not pleasantly, and doubtless in Gorean, for she shook her head, negatively, indicating her lack of comprehension.	10
1	895	Surely she must be a slave! But there were so many anomalies in her behavior, her attempts to cover herself, the absence of lovely symbolisms of servitude, such as obeisances, her failure to request permission to speak, her general lack of deference, and so on.	10
2	239	But this connection appears dubious, for a number of reasons, primarily having to do with the lack of evidence.	10
2	262	To be sure, in a pleasure garden, in virtue of this lack of height and weight, as trifling as it might have been, she would have been subject to several of the other, larger girls, who might have beaten her when they wished, subject, of course, to the intervention of the attendants.	10
3	84	Such tunics, too, despite their brevity, lack a nether closure.	10
5	111	A more aware kajira would have doubtless been punished seriously for her lack of instant obedience.	10
5	332	"The habitat," said Cabot, "would lack an atmosphere".	10
18	43	This initial lack of concern with facial nudity commonly arouses contempt in not only Gorean free women for Earth-origin female slaves, but the contempt of Gorean female slaves, as well.	10
19	64	Wild animals are on the whole smaller, lack stamina, are malnourished, infested with parasites, and short-lived.	10
19	118	It went lastly to the largest of the hunters, he who had commanded the others, and he who had assured Cabot as to the lack of animosity resident in his dark mission, and bit off his head, as well.	10
35	23	This lack, however, was well remedied by Lord Grendel who, several Ahn from the cave, muchly concealing his deformed hands, in a tiny habitat village, had encountered a small smithy, and, with some of Cabot's silver coins, obtained from Peisistratus in consequence of a wager, had arranged with the s...	10
43	335	"You lack only the collar," said Cabot.	10
43	494	"You lack only the collar," said Cabot.	10
63	173	"They lack the means".	10
67	52	The edging of a footprint, its sharpness or lack of sharpness, may have its tale to tell.	10
76	12	To be sure, regardless of her dress or lack of it, the slave is expected to kneel, at least initially, in the presence of free persons, for example, when addressed, when entering rooms in which they are present, and so on, until, and if, permitted to rise.	10
81	61	They lack only the brands and collars".	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	399	For example, as they commonly lack a nether closure, with the exception of the Turian camisk, the slave is constantly, implicitly, advised of her delicious vulnerability as a property, and reminded of one of her major concerns, which is to please the master, instantly and without question, to the be...	10
2	100	They should be distinguished from claims, or seeming claims, which are noncognitive, namely, which lack either truth or falsity.	10
2	125	Unfortunately, too, several of these children will suffer confusing stress, as they lack the emotional maturation to relate comprehensibly to the needs and demands of their grown bodies, bodies hastened beyond the horizons of a child's understanding.	10
4	65	I had little doubt she was trying to spy on me, though, given her clumsiness, and her apparent lack of awareness of the trail I had left, the word is perhaps more complimentary than it needed be.	10
10	114	"The appropriate background, the appropriate characteristics, egotism, ambition, greed, a lack of scrupulosity, and such?" "Yes," said the blond fellow.	10
12	152	"Perhaps others might serve as well," said Thrasilicus, "a possibility which I lack the expertise to dispute, but the Priest-Kings have chosen you".	10
12	354	Courtesy, or politeness, you see, must not always be understood as a lack, a debility, or insufficiency.	10
17	34	They would be, I supposed, little used to riding together, and would presumably lack familiar, common signals and maneuvers.	10
18	275	"How can she be slave, if you are not master?" "I fear I lack the courage, the strength, to be a master," he said.	10
23	94	"They are without females, they lack incubators".	10
29	41	I occasionally erred in these rituals, but these lapses tended to be accepted with good grace, being attributed to my innocent lack of couth, and that no affront was intended.	10
43	141	One would expect, as well, cunning, astuteness, a will of implacable force, and, I supposed, given the nature of the traitorous party, remorseless ambition, and a useful lack of inhibitive scruples.	10

Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	223	"No," she said, "a thousand times no! I have known the emptiness, the loneliness, of freedom, the pretensions, the selfishness, the uncertainties of freedom, the confusions, the lack of place, the opacities and ambiguities of freedom, the lack of purpose, the lack of meaning and identity!" "It is tr...	10
3	270	She perhaps referred to the extraordinary brevity of such a garment, its capacity to cling to a slave's body, its brazen scantiness, its shameful display of the slave's body as that of the animal she is, the lack of a nether closure, that she may know herself at the pleasure of masters, and such.	10
3	679	Put a rope on her neck and she is yours! But I must not be brought back to Ar! As soon as I was stripped, as I would be, as a slave, my lack of a brand would be obvious, and then there would be inquiries, and the proscription lists would be certain to be examined.	10
3	939	Although the switch was occasionally used with them one can do only so much with women and the switch, as, despite their earnestness and fear, they lack the stamina and speed of men.	10
6	57	That, I supposed, explained her lack of agitation.	10
8	383	But, after a time, even Gorean women, as well as barbarians, in bondage, think little of their lack of veiling, at least when not in the presence of a free woman, particularly of high caste.	10
8	385	Commonly though, they, and barbarians, as well, come to revel in the lack of veiling, and, indeed, in the shame of their commonly brief and revealing garmenture, if allowed garmenture, become insolent in their shameful pride, so deplored by free women, of revealing their beauty, of both face and bod...	10
12	183	Discovered to lack a brand, that omission is soon rectified, and she is sent to a market.	10
12	667	What is her will compared to the weight of society? Too, is it not easy to make a virtue of necessity, that ice should commend cold, and the stone its lack of feeling? How natural then that she should, with all innocence and conviction, often with a raging earnestness, praise the treachery which has...	10
21	64	I looked to the side, with a studied lack of concern.	10
23	21	Surely, to have the chance of defending oneself is to be preferred to the lack of such a chance.	10
24	309	A similar claim might have been made of thousands of free women, and with considerably more justification, given their revelatory garmenture, their total lack of veiling, and such, of tens of thousands of slaves.	10
27	194	Both halls were small, and pleasant, each appointed with the spare taste, the lack of clutter, the movable, painted screens one expected in such places.	10

Book 31. (19 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	658	I took this lapse, if lapse it be, on the part of the beast, as an indication of indulgence or weakness, or perhaps merely a lack of interest, and, on the part of the Lady Bina, to be a consequence of ignorance, of her lack of familiarity with Gorean customs, and the attitudes and behaviors expected...	10
6	82	I was blinded with smoke, half strangled, with a lack of air.	10
7	454	"Already," said another, "perhaps unknown to yourself, you are beginning to stand, and move, and kneel, and carry yourself, with the loveliness and grace of a slave, with her subtlety, her lack of pretense, her softness, her deference, her awareness of what she is, her profound and vulnerable, and h...	10
10	838	Once again I wondered about her background, her seeming lack of socialization, and such.	10
10	873	"You lack a Home Stone".	10
11	44	She would doubtless have been recognized as barbarian, suspected to lack a Home Stone, and one thing might have led to another.	10
12	54	"Who are you?" I expected to be told that curiosity was not becoming in a kajira, but the small, exquisite Lady Bina, despite her selfishness and vanity, her almost charmingly innocent lack of concern with the feelings and lives of others, was often pleasant, and communicative.	10
17	433	I heard movements about me! I sensed the agitation, the diverse partisanships abounding about, the excitement of the crowd, heard the cries, the cheering, the stamping, the screams and shouts, and I could see nothing! It does not matter I said to myself, reassuring myself of my lack of interest in s...	10
18	982	Many roads, particularly small ones, lack pasang stones altogether.	10
27	37	Occasionally, under certain circumstances, physiological or social, perhaps the lack of a Dominant, the Nondominant may occasionally become a Dominant, in effect, a true male.	10
27	217	I am not sure to what factors, perhaps several, these transformations might be attributed, but I suspected they might, at least in part, have something to do with the naturalness, the openness, the honesty, the lack of hypocrisy, of the Gorean world itself.	10
33	112	She had been for them no more than a piece in their games, of value only for her possible effect on Grendel, but now, given his lack of concern for her, even his contempt for her, she was no longer even that.	10
35	272	"Perhaps a single explanatory sheet, to which we lack access?" I suggested.	10
46	124	No killing is done yet, for the men lack weapons.	10
48	74	The thought of Agamemnon and his adherents appears to have been that the putatively small number of remaining dissidents who might conceal themselves in such passages would perish for lack of water, or be starved out.	10
49	186	Given his downfall in the Voltai it would, at least for a time, lack central direction.	10
49	249	To my surprise, and lack of ease, I felt slave bracelets snapped on my wrists.	10
51	120	This recollection did little to assuage my lack of ease.	10
52	226	"She would lack the depth, the force, the power, for such calculations, such intrigues, and risks".	10

Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	8	The difference, rather, in most cases, is various, wonder, uncertainty, hesitation, timidity, inertness, woodenness, a lack of grace, a lack of presentation, of readiness, of eagerness.	10
4	5	Those who behave so deplorably, so stupidly and futilely, so foolishly, are usually those who are only a day or so off the marching chain, who have not been in the houses, but in the camps, those who lack instruction, those as yet deprived of training.	10
4	53	How well they display the house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather th...	10
9	207	Among these ways clothing or its lack, as the nature of bonds, food, quarters, and such, may figure.	10
9	235	The free woman is a person, a citizen, and may possess a Home Stone; we are animals and properties, marked and collared as such, and we lack Home Stones, for such are denied to beasts.	10
17	98	What, on Earth, did they lack but a distinctive garb, and the collar? I had not seen a Gorean free woman but I had heard much of them, particularly from my instructresses in my house of training.	10
21	81	A forester might have noted such things, the lack of sound.	10
23	56	Such garments, too, of course, lack a nether closure.	10
25	86	These were not men of Earth, conditioned for years, for political purposes, into devirilized, malleable weaklings, males taught to deny their blood, taught to pride themselves on their lack of manhood.	10
43	754	I kiss and lick your thigh, hoping that you will forgive my mediocrity, my ordinariness, my lack of interest".	10
50	513	Too, it would doubtless lack a nether closure.	10
52	956	"They lack goods, and supplies; they give no indication of preparation for flight".	10

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	62	"Surely, given its shape it would lack the penetration of a blade," I said, "and, given its shape and weight, it would lack the distance and accuracy of an arrow".	10
6	171	Tyrtaios, too, seemed, surprised at the lack of response amongst the Pani.	10
10	205	"We have already noted," I said, "two things of interest, the likely inertia of a peasantry, which would allow limited defensive precautions on the part of Lord Yamada, and the lack of an authorization for raids, which I suspect is as well understood by General Yamada as by those who stand high in t...	10
12	115	* * * Whereas I had been willing, under the force of circumstances, recognizing treachery in high places, and the lack of practical alternatives, to conduct the cavalry as a rogue arm, aflight on behalf of Lord Temmu, I was unwilling to transform it into what would be in effect a brigade of bandits ...	10
15	50	On the other hand, I would later learn, interestingly, that this lack of an obvious warning arrangement, first, was intended to encourage an approach through the garden to the courtyard, which would then facilitate the entrapment of intruders between the double walls, those of the courtyard and thos...	10
17	4	To me it was unfamiliar, given its lack of what I would have supposed to be the natural symmetry of such a weapon.	10
26	48	Who knows where the prisoners have been taken, how long they will be held, and what is being done with them in these unknown locations? By such means an authority may see to a population's alarm, lack of ease, and intimidation.	10
27	106	Tajima, I recalled, had been annoyed at the lack of Pani slaves held behind those stout wooden bars.	10
30	258	This lack of intelligence was keenly frustrating.	10
30	500	"Dullness, inertness, a lack of feeling, insensibility, passivity, dormancy, the suppression of nature, self-fear, self-denial, frigidity, torpidity, and such, is acceptable in a free woman," he said.	10
30	527	"Do you think it is merely a lack of clothing, a ring or band on your neck, a mark on your thigh?" "Let me go," she begged.	10
35	41	I did not know if this apparent lack of care was a function of the distance from the lands of Temmu, a sense of the weakness of the forces of Temmu, or was merely to be attributed to the arrogance of a mighty shogun.	10
61	187	If the altercation between these two houses was indeed wagered on by mysterious gamblers, perhaps treading the depths of a vast nest in the Sardar, or in orbiting worlds of steel, it would lack a resolution.	10
61	429	Indeed, without discounting the sometimes marvelous beauty of the daughters of peasants, whose sales tend to fill the ranks of contract women, Lord Yamada suspected, given not only her features and lines, but the obscurity of her antecedents, and her lack of family, that she may not have been origin...	10
61	650	Indeed, I have sometimes suspected that the low status of the "free woman" on Earth, together with her common lack of veiling, the freedom with which she reveals her wrists, hands, ankles, and such, have led many Goreans to regard her as open slave stock, as opposed to, in the view of some, conceale...	10

Book 34. (23 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	795	I did not think it had been wise for the Lady Bina to acknowledge her lack of a Home Stone, and, in particular, her lack of that of Ar.	10
1	177	"I am not a slave!" "Do you think I do not know a slave when I see one? You lack only the collar".	10
3	33	"Surely she was too short, too widely hipped, too amply bodied! Did she not dress poorly? Did she not lack flair, and dash?" I could see now that the second man had gone into the bedroom and was rummaging through drawers.	10
6	25	"You lack the key," called the fellow who had opened the cell door, who seemed to be the leader, or spokesman for the others.	10
6	53	"Do you think I do not know a slave when I see one? You lack only the collar," he had said.	10
6	202	Thus, in their tepid, or embarrassed, or hostile, responses, or lack of responses, you might have learned something about other women, and, if you were to permit yourself to look into your own heart, you might have learned something about yourself, as well".	10
7	398	One was a violent rage at what had been done to me, a rage rife with shame, degradation, humiliation, frustration, and an acute sense of a lack of recourse, a sense of an utter helplessness, and the other, even stronger, was a sense of its fittingness.	10
8	253	Consider the lack of veiling and concealment, the brazen display of their faces, the frequent flaunting of ankles and calves, even of arms and shoulders, the styles of summer wear, the garments of beaches, the nature of night wear, the sheerness of hose, the pleasantries of lingerie, the use of cosm...	10
15	173	A whip is used with bosk or kaiila, but it serves little purpose with tharlarion, given the thickness of their hide, and their comparative lack of responsiveness.	10
28	47	It is not that the streets lack names, only that the names are not likely to be known by strangers.	10
30	187	"Or of naivety, or of a lack of reflection," he suggested.	10
34	115	Still, despite their passivity and aloofness, their singular lack of imperialism and aggression, they will protect the integrity of their habitat to the death".	10
41	63	No one seemed to feign, perhaps too studiously, a lack of interest in a mere kajira, one doubtless bound on some trivial errand for her master.	10
46	77	"But it seems, great lord," said Lord Grendel, "however far flung your interests, deep your plans, and plentiful your allies, that you lack even a body".	10
46	211	I could not understand the sternness, the lack of feeling, on the part of Lord Grendel, who had hitherto shown even me, a slave, consideration and kindness.	10
46	377	That he was not then killed immediately, to at least deprive Lord Arcesilaus of a valuable friend and ally, demonstrated that this possibility, a lack of cooperation in the matter of Eve, had been anticipated and prepared for.	10
49	28	Interestingly, some Goreans of the upper castes, notably the Warriors, prided themselves on their lack of "letters," regarding reading and writing as scribes' work and beneath their dignity.	10
51	202	How could you then expect, in a state such as Ar, rich and populous, to so simply ascend a throne? You lack family relations, connections, position, and power.	10
52	66	Doubtless, from the point of view of Surtak, such an exchange was an indication of simple madness or an incredible lack of perception on the part of Lord Grendel, to return Lyris, an unusually beautiful Kur female, I had gathered, for a monstrosity, part human and part Kur, Eve.	10
52	89	However, I had not thought it amiss to let Drusus be aware that I possessed this skill, one that he might well lack.	10
59	1	It was hard to see, for the lack of light.	10
62	164	Slave garments almost always lack a nether closure.	10
68	456	Slave tunics lack pockets and so, too, do most Gorean garments, a prominent exception being the tunics of craftsmen.	10

Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	310	Men, in their cruelty, in their lack of concern for a slave, do things to her which make her ever more helplessly a slave.	10
8	240	I did not doubt but what had brought them together, in one place or another, in one city or another, in one tavern or another, in one brothel, or another, was a sense of what they had in common, ambition, a lack of scruples, opportunism, and greed.	10
14	4	A girl may be demoted from the floor to the kitchen, particularly if she is seldom alcoved, this suggesting a lack of customer interest.	10
25	52	I do not know why you cannot speak, but I do not think that lack will much diminish your utility to my plans".	10
33	602	A more remote possibility, but not one to be ignored, was death by exposure or from a simple lack of sustenance.	10
37	67	Many such buildings, incidentally, lack walkways, and can be reached only by water.	10
41	87	How furious he might be, to learn of so egregious, though understandable, a lack of readiness.	10
42	219	At the first opportunity, in privacy, might I not be done away with, to protect a secret I had no wish to share? Commonly the slave's protection is her collar, and her standing, or lack of standing, as a domestic beast, her marketability, and such.	10

Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	28	"The net has been cast widely, time and time again," said Archelaos, "but, as yet, always with a lack of success".	10
7	162	"Dear Statercounter," said Archelaos, "please ignore the discouragement, the lack of enthusiasm, the disinterest, and even the pessimism, on the part of my esteemed colleague, Admiral Nicomachos.	10
7	177	I was, of course, disappointed in the lack of responsiveness on the part of the Admiral.	10
18	161	At the great Sardar Fairs on the continent, associated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are many permanent structures and no lack of amenities, such as fountains, inns, and paved streets.	10
31	4	What was unusual was the lack of activity in, and around, the enclosure.	10
32	9	Perhaps, however, the corsairs, puzzled as they might have been by the lack of contact with the village raiders, now pinned within the palisade of the burned village, did not believe anything might be seriously amiss.	10
33	52	"As we are both lovers of peace," he said, "and both lack amity with Cos, resenting its exploitations and villainies, we should be friends, and allies, not foes".	10
34	46	"There is not so much of a lack there as we might hope," said Clitus.	10
35	96	"They lack irritability.	10
49	152	"They know well what they themselves lack," I said.	10