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Book 1. (15 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 21 One of the colleges to which I applied, one perhaps somewhat less perceptive than the rest, a small liberal arts college for men in New Hampshire, entered into negotiations, and I had soon received what was to be my first and, I suppose, my last appointment in the academic world.
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1 29 Fortunately, my departmental chairman, a gentle, bespectacled man, whose speciality was American economic history, knew even less than I did, or, at least, was considerate enough to allow me to believe so.
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2 37 Less gravity.
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4 27 It tends to become less effective if often used, and the rider is then at the mercy of the tarn.
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4 36 "Do you seek to climb to the Moons of Gor?" I suddenly realized I felt dizzy, or slightly so, but the magnificent black tarn was still climbing, though now struggling, his wings beating fiercely with frustrated persistence against the thinning, less resistant air.
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5 135 If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.
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6 182 Better to steal slaves, where the guilt is less and the charms of the captive are more readily ascertainable in advance.
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6 185 I also noted, though with considerably less pleasure, that the daughter of the Ubar was several inches taller than myself.
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9 57 It gradually became clear that the road was becoming less traveled.
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10 59 He seemed less pleased.
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10 118 Moreover, they needed far less water than tarns.
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15 232 "She would have brought a bride price of a thousand tarns," said Marlenus bitterly, "and now she is of less value than a trained slave girl".
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18 17 In a matter of perhaps less than a minute I hovered over the summit of the interior wall near the great gate.
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18 130 In less than a few seconds the first of the scraggy tarns had lit on the floor of the cot and poked his ugly head through the door.
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19 102 But this time the gesture was less grand; it seemed a bit hysterical; it seemed pathetic.
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Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

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8 63 In spite of this conviction, incomprehensibly, I found myself depressed by Tharna, and wondered if it, in its way, were not somehow, subtly, more barbaric, more harsh, less human than its ruder, less noble, more beautiful sisters.
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2 45 Accordingly, to be of a city is, in a sense, to have been a part of something less perishable than oneself, something divine in the sense of undying.
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3 54 "Tal," he said, his voice thick, almost less than human.
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3 89 What I said, I knew, would be less important than the fact that something was said, that he had not been alone again.
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6 49 Too often they are seen less as persons, human beings with rights, individuals worthy of concern and regard than as potential pleasure slaves, silken, bangled prisoners, possible adornments to the pleasure gardens of their captors.
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8 18 Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ...
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8 57 This was perhaps because the cylinders were, on the whole, less lofty than those of other cities, and much broader, giving an impression of a set of squat, accumulated disks, so different from the lofty forests of sky-challenging towers and battlements distinguishing most Gorean cities.
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15 162 "You will be simply another slave girl among slave girls," I said, "neither more nor less".
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16 46 "Less," said Dorna the Proud, "would insult our Beloved Tatrix".
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21 80 To them she was just another wench on their chain, perhaps more poorly trained and less docile than most.
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21 232 Were these marvelous creatures, each of whom already wore the graceful brand of the slave girl, any the less worthy than she? "No," I said to Targo.
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22 124 For the first time in my life my senses were kindled—for the first time I could feel the movements of clothing on my body, for the first time I noticed how an eye opens and what, truly, is the feel of a hand's touch—and I knew then that I was no more nor less than he or any other livin...
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22 166 And, of course, as the captors came gradually to care for their slaves, the desire to subjugate them became less, for few men long desire to subjugate a creature for whom they genuinely care, unless perhaps it be they fear to lose her should she be free.
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22 167 Yet as the status of these women became more ennobled and less clearly defined the subtle tensions of dominance and submission, instinctual throughout the animal world, tended to assert themselves.
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24 159 The purplish patches that marked his yellowish face seemed less pronounced now than before.
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Book 3. (25 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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7 39 On the other hand these generalizations are imperfect, for Gorean speech is no less complex than that of any of the great natural language communities of the Earth nor are its speakers any the less diverse.
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13 21 With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, a...
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16 207 "We have managed to retard her aging considerably but eon by eon it has been apparent that our efforts have been less and less successful, and now there are no more eggs".
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2 38 It was a depressing sound, and not made less so by my realization that in this case it was I who had entered the mountains.
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2 120 This ridge can be penetrated by the spear but anything less than a perfect cast will result in the weapon's being deflected through the cheek of the animal, inflicting a cruel but unimportant wound.
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5 158 The machine she spoke of would be a brain-scanner of some sort which would record three-dimensionally the microstates of her brain, in particular those of the deeper, less alterable layers.
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6 38 The Older Tarl had guffawed in recounting this anecdote and was scarcely less pleased by its sequel.
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7 38 Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather belligerently simp...
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8 148 Having come for grain and not war, the men of Treve would then turn back, and seek out the fields of a less well-defended city.
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11 29 Many of these signs would be far less obvious than the ones now displayed in the throes of anger.
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14 35 Had I been less ill I would undoubtedly have been more offended.
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14 78 It was perhaps a bit less coarse than Mul-Fungus.
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17 26 He might have asked Mul Translator Engineers for such an expression and an explanation of it, and I supposed they might have given him the expression "friend" and explained it for him, more or less adequately, in terms of the normal consequences of the relation designated, such things as tending to ...
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17 72 I suggested to Sarm that satellites would be less expensive to maintain in flight but he denied this.
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20 205 The Gorean man, as a man, cheerfully and dutifully attends to the rescuing of his female in distress, but as a Gorean, as a true Gorean, he feels, perhaps justifiably and being somewhat less or more romantic than ourselves, that he should have something more for his pains than her kiss of gratitude ...
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22 79 "This will be a great deal safer," he said, and added, unnecessarily to my mind, "and probably a good deal less noisy".
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26 252 This seemed to me only a bit less doubtful.
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27 5 I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the ...
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29 18 Gor is somewhat smaller than the earth and, accordingly, its gravitational pull is less.
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29 40 In less than a few Ihn I had brought the ship into the large Nest complex where the ten ships of Sarm still followed their grim, precise, destructive pattern, as placidly and methodically as one might paint lines on a surface or mow a lawn.
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29 81 Just as the three ships burst into the open of another huge complex I caught up with them and opened fire on the third ship but my fire seemed less effective this time and though I gave it a full burst the charging of the tube seemed at last almost exhausted.
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30 163 "Do you think a Priest-King is incapable of love?" * * * * Now my imprisonment on the rubber disk seemed less irritating than it had.
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30 199 And I noted that some of Sarm's Priest-Kings were less golden than I had known them, having now a slightly brownish cast on the thorax and abdomen, signs I knew to be associated with thirst.
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31 114 In less than a minute I had kicked open another grille and dropped inside the great domed room of the Power Plant.
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34 113 "If I loved you only a little less," she said, "I would find Talena of Ar myself and thrust a dagger into her heart".
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Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 58 I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
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2 104 It requires less food, of course, than the tarn.
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8 67 Kamchak then rode, and he, like Conrad of the Kassars, deftly took the fruit from the wand; indeed, his lance entering the fruit perhaps a fraction of an inch less than had Conrad's.
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8 406 "This wench," he said, "has never been snared in less than thirty-two beats".
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8 442 I recalled Albrecht had said that the girl had never been snared in less than thirty-two beats.
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8 484 I wondered how it could be that such a girl had never been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times.
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8 486 Then I remembered the intelligence of her eyes, her confidence, that never had she been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times.
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10 292 I saw that Hereena, of the First Wagon, stood Third Stake, though, as far as I could note, she was no less beautiful than the two Kassar girls who stood above her.
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12 211 The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon.
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12 214 One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
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12 419 At times he would permit her to draw back again, but never to the full length of the chain, and each time he permitted her to withdraw, it was less than the last.
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12 506 He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains.
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19 17 "I think," said he, "an hour or so will be sufficient—perhaps less".
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21 149 For four days I remained with the girl, and each day, once at noon and once in the evening, we would stroll by one or more of the gates of Turia, to see if the guards might now be less vigilant than they had been the time before.
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23 69 I did not wish to remain on the crest of the hill long enough to allow the left and right flanks of the Paravaci—rapidly assembling—to fold about my men and so, in less than four Ehn—as their disorganized, astonished center fell back—our bosk horn sounded our retreat and ...
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24 6 I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.
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25 395 "Yes," I smiled, "her surrender is won—often by a master who will be satisfied with no less".
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26 391 "It is said," remarked Kamchak, "that the sword of Ha-Keel is scarcely less swift and cunning than that of Pa-Kur, the Master of Assassins".
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27 59 "Each of you," he said, "the Kassars—the Kataii—the Paravaci—have your own bosk and your own wagons—live so—but in time of war—when there are those who would divide us—when there are those who would fight us and threaten our wagons and our bosk and wo...
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Book 5. (29 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 65 Many other diseases, which presumably flourished centuries ago on Gor, tended to be neglected, as less dangerous and less universal than that of aging.
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2 280 "How can this house of which you speak," asked Kuurus, "undersell so consistently? Is it that the number of slaves is so great that the profit taken on each is less?" "I have thought long on it," said Portus, "and that cannot be all of it.
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2 298 "True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".
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2 359 "The business of Priest-Kings and such," said she, "is surely less important than our present activities".
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3 66 A result tended to be that those susceptible to many diseases died and those less susceptible lived on, propagating their kind.
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3 133 Goreans often play without the board and pieces, though generally they prefer them because then less effort need be expended on the purely mnemonic matters of keeping the pattern in mind, move to move.
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5 20 Another form of lock, providing perhaps even less security, is the notched beam lock which may be opened by a heavy sickle-like key which is inserted through a hole in the door, fitted into the notch, and then rotated to the left or right, depending on whether the door is being locked or opened.
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5 235 Interestingly, Elizabeth learned to read Gorean in the Nest, and in less than an hour.
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5 483 "No more so for me than for you," she said, "and perhaps less for me".
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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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5 674 I did not tell her, of course, but Warriors are trained to tie that knot, and most can do it in less than three Ihn.
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6 100 It is less common to bind a girl during the day because then there is much work to be done.
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9 21 Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...
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9 72 Then I stepped back for I noted, coming along one of the curving walks, two lovely girls, clad in white, their hair bound back with white silk; they were quite young; perhaps less than eighteen.
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12 96 Usually these birds fly more slowly and are less vicious than the war tarns or racing tarns.
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13 171 "Men have been impaled in Ar for less".
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16 1 The Tarn Less than a month following the downfall of the House of Portus, Cernus had become the undisputed master of the slave trade in Ar.
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17 233 Caprus, who had become more affable, and apparently somewhat bolder, following the enthronement of Cernus, perhaps because Cernus was less often then in the House, informed me that he had made contact with an agent of Priest-Kings.
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17 239 Elizabeth, predictably, did not care to leave without me, but she recognized the plan as a good one; if she could be independently removed from the House there would be less for Caprus and me to worry about; further, she naturally wished Virginia and Phyllis to have the same opportunity for freedom ...
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17 744 In less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in ...
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17 748 I became now less concerned to suggest improvements in her play and more concerned to protect my own Home Stone.
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17 810 While I was setting them up I thought it well to change the subject, and perhaps to interest her in some less exacting pastime, something more suitable to her feminine mind.
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18 83 "Love," asked he, "for Ho-Tu, less than a man?" "You are my love," said Sura, "and have been so for many years".
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19 5 Many were the furious Gorean slave girls who found themselves, early in the Love Feast, forced to ascend the block while buyers were still waiting, before the larger quantities of gold would be spent, to be sold for prices less than they might otherwise have won for themselves under the conditions o...
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19 77 I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...
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19 139 A girl in the Curulean is seldom sold for less than two gold pieces.
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19 291 There were some cries of protest, perhaps from less-affluent bidders, that the girls were not of High Caste.
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20 231 It would be one less to die.
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24 474 "It is less than an hour to sundown," said Hup.
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Book 6. (26 results) Raiders of Gor

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11 110 Already it seemed to me there was less smoke, less fire, from the area of the arsenal.
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1 20 The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept se...
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1 32 Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be.
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3 10 In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...
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4 149 "The difference between the collector of taxes and the slaver is sometimes less than clear".
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5 177 But, as I watched, and the young men shouted, the dances became less stylized, and became more universal to woman, whether she be a drunken housewife in a suburb of a city of Earth or a jeweled slave in Port Kar, dances that spoke of them as women who want men, and will have them.
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8 84 The fact, delightful to me, that Telima's skill was such that actual marsh gants frequently responded to her cries was, I expect, less delightful to those of Port Kar.
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8 244 One is, accordingly, in such cases, less likely to lose the point in the body.
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9 141 I was becoming drunk, my thoughts less connected.
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10 15 There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.
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10 73 He had not seen me before, though I had seen him, at the Curulean Auction House in Ar, something less than a year ago.
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10 144 On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero...
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10 161 The amount of time spent in actual work, however, is far less.
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10 175 Beyond this, lastly, it might be mentioned that Gorean society, on the whole, tends to be tradition bound, and that there is little questioning of the wisdom of one's fathers; in such a society individuals usually have an identity satisfactory to themselves, and a place in which they feel comfortabl...
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11 320 "Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, in measured words, "may, however, find that the council is less inclined to lenience than he".
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11 498 "I have less interest in piracy, I gather, than many of my colleagues," I said.
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13 50 "When," snarled Lurius, "you find yourself chained in the rowing hold of a round ship, you may, my fine captain of Port Kar, bethink yourself less brave and clever than now you do".
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13 385 But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul.
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14 51 The thole ports in a given group of three are about ten inches apart and the groups themselves, center to center, are a bit less than four feet apart.
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14 81 Accordingly, her goods, to the dismay of her merchants, were becoming less competitive in the markets of Thassa.
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14 284 Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet.
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14 308 Further, she is less seaworthy than the round ship, having a lower freeboard area, being more easily washed with waves, and having a higher keel-to-beam ratio, making the danger of breaking apart in a high sea greater than it would be with a round ship.
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14 394 "My maidens," said Vivina, "will also be ransomed, though their ransoms will be less than mine".
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18 113 I have fought with warriors who were less swift than you".
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18 772 And I do not doubt that the Lady Vivina would have found the couch of the Ubar of Cos less joyful than did the slave girl Vina the blanket and the mat of the kitchen boy, Fish, in the house of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar.
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18 939 If you were not the highest, you would demand to be the lowest; if you were not the best, you would be nothing less than the worst; if there was not the myth there was to be nothing".
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Book 7. (22 results) Captive of Gor

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11 650 But she would not have felt it as cruelly as I would have, for she was more common than I, less sensitive, less delicate.
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13 402 She was less, far less, than I.
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14 426 Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almost guaranteed t...
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3 52 We can reach point P in five hours with less traffic.
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3 313 It occurred to me that I should not follow the parkways, but seek less traveled roads.
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5 194 In perhaps less than a minute the creature, and the men, emerged from the ship; they, together with their fellows, then swiftly re-entered the silverish ship.
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7 24 On the other hand, if worth a good deal less, they are much more easily acquired than a high-caste free woman.
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7 223 She treated them all as though they might be less than the dirt beneath her feet.
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8 532 I was such that men would find me so desirable that nothing less than the full owning of me would satisfy them.
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9 211 I was other than, and less than, they.
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10 59 That decision had alarmed me, but, too, it had appealed to my vanity, and I do not think I would have cared to have been sold as anything less.
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10 324 "It was, incidentally, much less expensive".
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11 621 We spent more time together, and I talked less with stupid Ute and skinny Inge.
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11 1016 I suspected what might be the joys of love and service, the pleasures of kneeling and obedience, the pleasures, too, of being a will-less, subjugated, helpless sexual toy, forced, a writhing slave, to endure whatever lengthy, maddening raptures might be inflicted upon me, a rightless property and po...
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12 370 I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please...
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13 172 But I was less eager to sample the small amphibians she caught in her hands or the fat, green insects she scooped from the inside of logs and from under overturned rocks.
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13 703 I would have been a thousand times less than he, even had I been free.
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13 1009 How angry, how resentful, must free women be, at the sight of a female slave! Who could blame them, seeing the exposure of her beauty, and knowing how she must obey? Too, we must understand the nature of the Gorean male, who finds women so attractive, so maddeningly desirable, that nothing less than...
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13 1011 I wonder how many women of Earth are so powerfully desired, desired so avidly, so greedily, so rapaciously, are so ferociously wanted, that nothing less will satisfy the male than having her fully, than having the literal owning of her.
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14 375 I think, however, that girls in slave tunics are raped less frequently in the streets".
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14 443 Other Goreans tend to be less tolerant about these things, and feel that if a woman is stupid enough to allow herself to be captured, then she should be a slave.
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15 1355 Then the feasting grew less, and the warriors, taking what wenches pleased them, went to their tents.
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Book 8. (36 results) Hunters of Gor

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4 308 "You seem harder now," she said, "less soft, less gentle hearted".
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5 157 The tide from Thassa, lifting the river, makes the entrance to the Laurius less troublesome, less hazardous.
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2 269 "I refuse to sell for less than eight gold pieces each," said Arn.
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2 365 I can understand why it is that such women hate men, but it is less clear to me why they hold such enmity to women.
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2 437 He knew less than I of the normal habits of Verna and her band.
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3 104 Lydius is one of the few cities of the north which has public baths, as in Ar and Turia, though much smaller and less opulent.
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3 105 It is a port of paradoxes, where one finds, strangely mingled, luxuries and gentilities of the south with the simplicities and rudenesses of the less civilized north.
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4 293 She knew I had forced her to serve precisely as a paga slave, no more nor less.
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5 120 If she should attempt to escape again, the master's patience is usually less willing to be presumed upon.
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5 275 They are then less likely to be recognized.
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5 337 When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest.
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6 327 Above Laura the river is less navigable than below, particularly in the late summer.
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6 751 "I myself," said he, ruefully, "am less patient".
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9 243 "We were following an enemy panther girl," she said, "one less skilled than yourself, of the band of Hura, who would take my land from me".
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10 212 Nothing less will satisfy him.
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11 450 "You will be less pleasing to men".
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12 83 Some high-born women are less free than the most abject of slave girls.
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13 54 In this fashion, the easiest hits are saved for last, when there is less danger of losing a kill.
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13 56 They are thus less aware of their danger.
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13 246 It is a reasonably common practice to separate officers and men, in order that prisoners have less unity and direction than might otherwise be the case.
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14 269 It is as great as that of the male, I expected, perhaps greater, for she is less satiable, and the tissues of her womanhood are widely spread, and intricate and deep.
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15 208 On the march, however, they would discover, to their dismay, that there was even less protection.
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15 348 It would provide some protection from cold night rains, and some protection, though less, against panthers and sleen.
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15 371 Later, if their flight became more precipitate and less rational, we might simply make their route ours.
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15 437 Grenna's neck knot was tied as tightly as that of any of the other girls; her wrists were confined no less securely behind her back.
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15 588 "To me you seem less worthy, more slavish".
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15 745 She tore the pleasure silk back that there be less between us.
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15 926 A she-verr, a tarsk sow, a tabuk doe had no more nor less name than she.
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16 37 Even the panther girls in charge of the coffle of captive females struck them less now with the switch.
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16 54 They struck the girls in the coffle less frequently now.
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17 14 "That way there will be less for us to carry".
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18 204 The less that a slave can know or see the more easily controlled he is.
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19 205 "I trust," I said, "that you, and men of Tyros, are less mad".
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20 199 "Yet that there be less bloodshed we are prepared to be merciful.
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22 441 Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have been were there no caste of thieves in the city.
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22 716 Similarly, sexual selection, as well as natural selection, is a significant dynamic of evolution, without which it is less comprehensible.
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Book 9. (33 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 102 This is a consequence of Gor's simpler culture, in which there is literally less to do, less to clean, less to care for, and so on, and also of the fact that the Gorean master, if pleased with the wench, takes care that she is fresh and ready for the couch.
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10 625 This is, it seems to me, an intelligent custom; the host, giving first, and knowing what he can afford to give, sets the limit to the giving; the guest then makes certain that his gifts are less than those of the host; the host, in giving more, wins honor as a host; the guest, in giving less, does t...
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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1 141 Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? ...
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1 331 "Your status now, whether you know this or not, is less than that of the meanest peasant wench, secure in her caste rights".
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1 342 Yet, to be sure, it was less than she would have brought if expertly displayed on the block in Turia or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Tharna, or Port Kar.
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2 120 For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
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3 171 Two of the men of Torvaldsland had, from their left shoulder to their right hip, that their right arms be less impeded, a chain formed of slave bracelets; each pair of bracelets locked at each end about one of the bracelets of another pair, the whole thus forming a circle.
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3 174 They are less ornate and finely tooled than those available in the south.
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3 228 "Less mad I expect than Ivar Forkbeard," I said.
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4 128 Too, the Ax is regarded as less valuable in the end game".
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4 137 People would be less used to defending against it in the end game; its capacity to surprise, and to be used unexpectedly, might be genuinely profitable at such a time in the game.
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4 174 Many such ships, however, are sailed by the men of Torvaldsland, particularly late in the season, when the ship is less tight from months of the sea's buffeting.
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5 40 It is seen less frequently in the north.
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5 242 I had less confidence in the weights of the man of Torvaldsland.
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6 209 The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.
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6 451 "Now," laughed Ivar Forkbeard, "I expect that these nights Svein Blue Tooth rests less well in his furs".
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8 43 Fashions in Ar are eagerly inquired into; a garment "cut in the fashion of Ar" may sell for more than one of better cloth but less "stylish"; "as it is done in Ar" is a phrase often heard.
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8 219 In less than another Ehn, soaked and cold, teeth chattering, I had crawled over the bulwark of the longboat and joined the Forkbeard.
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10 50 He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to me later; he d...
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10 101 Yet, I think their labors less than those often performed by the wife of Earth.
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10 103 An overworked, weary woman, despondent and tired, is less responsive to her master's touch; she does not squirm as well.
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10 108 Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde...
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10 153 When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ...
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10 315 If the thrall had been nothing in Torvaldsland before, he was now less than nothing; his status was now, in effect, that of the southern male work slave, found often in the quarries and mines, and, chained, on the great farms.
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11 65 It is also said to possess great stamina, but of this I am much less certain.
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12 27 He had done less well in singing, poetry composition, rhyming and riddle guessing.
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13 138 It is only to recognize that her power in the south is less explicitly acknowledged.
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15 237 Two others were far down the slope, where it was less sheer.
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18 302 That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co...
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18 538 Then, when the month is done, I will turn her over to the crew, and she will be, then, as my other bondmaids, no more or less".
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22 160 With them, less pleased, was the "golden girl," she with dark hair, and earrings.
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22 169 When she had learned to be more pleasing, more radiant, her movements would be less restricted; I had little doubt that, by the time we reached Port Kar, she would be precisely what the Forkbeard wanted her to be.
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Book 10. (38 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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7 527 I suspect they will favor a plainer, but more intelligent, girl over one who is less intelligent but less plain.
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9 172 Slave girls, less guarded, less protected, are more easily acquired.
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1 218 This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate...
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1 420 A poorly loaded kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed.
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2 327 They are less expensive than the lock variety; also, they may be tied at various places on the body, about the neck, the wrist, the ankle, about the thigh, about the arm, etc.
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2 431 I expected that less than half of them would reach the pits.
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4 179 It is not unusual for a woman to fear her womanhood; what is less generally recognized is that many men fear their own manhood; they conceal their blood; they pretend it does not exist; it is even dangerous, in such a society, to suggest that men consider honesty in such matters, to suggest that the...
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5 651 "Less," he said.
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5 711 I, too, in my way, though doubtless less skillful than the noble Ibn Saran, was a connoisseur of slave girls.
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7 357 Among the less pleasant aspects of Klima is that you will not see females.
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7 410 "But now it may matter less?" I asked.
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7 427 Now the girl was less innocent.
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7 715 "Be less bold.
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9 173 Slave girls, too, are less likely to be the objects of determined rescue attempts.
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9 180 Who would care to risk his life for a free woman, who, stripped, might prove disappointing, when, for less risk, he could get his capture loop on a known quantity, a girl who has quite probably been trained like an animal to deliciously satisfy the passions of a man, a girl who, responsive, helpless...
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10 376 The girl, one among thousands less fortunate, had encountered a male, surely, too, one among thousands, who could be, and was, to her and for her, her absolute and natural master, the ideal and perfect male for her, dominant and uncompromising, who could, and would, demand and get her full, yielding...
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10 379 The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...
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11 72 In less than four Ahn, twittering, fluttering, small, tawny, sharp-billed, following the black clouds, came flights of zadits.
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11 96 The camps of nomads were becoming less frequent.
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12 131 What man would want his collar on anything less precious? "Yet, Tarna," I suggested, "does not seem to be obtuse".
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12 450 "If you knew more men," I said, "true men, the experience would be less unfamiliar".
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13 371 Only you are less wise than I, for you do not serve upon that side which will taste the salt of victory".
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13 426 To be sure, these almost generic cruelties to which Earth girls in Gorean bondage so often found themselves subjected, such strictures, have tended to subside somewhat in the past year or two, as Earth girls become less exotic, and become a more familiar commodity in the markets, are more visible on...
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14 377 Perhaps Vella, even now, had been returned to her quarters, perhaps adjoining a larger area for the keeping of less-favored female slaves; where she would wait until commanded by men, perhaps to her exercises or bath, or silks, or cosmetics, to her beautification, or to small, suitable servile tasks...
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16 17 It may thus be used with less fatigue.
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20 6 It had lasted only a bit less than one day.
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20 9 We had gone perhaps less than a pasang when we fell, rolled from our feet, and lay in the sand, protecting our heads and the water.
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21 20 Did he not know I was not a Kur? He, shielded by the fur, was less exposed to the sun.
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23 127 This drift is much less pronounced, but still exists, in cavalry engagements.
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24 265 "Having a slave's beauty, you are likely to be at somewhat less risk than you might be otherwise, other things being equal, considering what you are".
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24 454 I do not even know if there are many masters on Earth, true masters, masters who know, treasure and love women, for what they are in themselves, not for their conformance to some images alien to their deeper nature, men who so desire and lust for such creatures that they are content with nothing les...
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24 457 Is it not enough to own and master, and have the whole slave of her? I think the culture makes them that way, that it twists them from the power and force, and the magnificence, of the mastery to smaller, more petty, less worthy concerns, and that they seek lamentable, misdirected vengeance on innoc...
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24 468 "But you are less reluctant to show your slave to true masters?" "Of course," she said.
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26 357 An Ihn is slightly less than an Earth second.
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26 462 The strap or coiled rope he carries is used less often to hasten, in a humiliating fashion, a girl who might otherwise dally on the way to discipline, though it may serve this purpose, than it is to drive other girls from her.
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26 667 Suddenly her voice, her lips moving beneath the silk, became less certain.
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26 987 You will be subject to discipline, and liable to punishment for the least infraction of house policy and rules, or for any failure whatsoever to be less than fully pleasing.
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Book 11. (48 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 134 It had been only less murky, less dismal, only a sign of what a world might be.
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4 189 It gave me pleasure to assume this posture before my master, who had full body rights to me; it gave me less pleasure, in the beginning, to assume it before free men generally; yet, eventually, I did it naturally, and pleasurably; it is a position that not only makes the girl more attractive to the ...
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5 333 It was night, and, even in the morning, her trail would be less fresh, less obvious.
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2 592 In part it is doubtless a matter of a plainer, simpler diet, containing less sugar; in part, I suspect, the culture, too, may have a role to play, as it is a culture in which undue chemical stress, through guilt and worry, is not placed on the system either in the prepubertal or pubertal years.
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2 1055 If I had had a weapon, a civilized weapon, even so slight as a small pistol, which I might have grasped, steadying it, with both hands, I might have feared less, but I had nothing, absolutely nothing.
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3 72 Some of the comments, I sensed, were less than completely flattering.
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3 111 As I would later learn, the value placed on girls such as we were, a Judy Thornton or an Elicia Nevins, girls of our quality, would commonly be a tiny sack of copper coins, a few more, a few less.
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3 290 She must, following the rules, move at least once in every five Ihn, which is a little less than five seconds.
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3 402 Afterwards, however, once the iron is pulled out of her body, and she is fully marked, Gorean males are less likely to accord her such consideration for her feelings.
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3 403 They are less likely, then, to be so indulgent with her.
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3 435 The pain was now less.
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3 482 Yet the most profound consequences of the brand seem to be less social than intensely individual, personal and psychological; the brand, almost instantaneously, transforms the deepest consciousness of a girl; I resolved to fight these feelings, to keep my personhood, even wearing a brand.
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3 531 That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
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4 202 After that we could attend to our less important tasks.
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4 664 Surely no one would think less of a slave for that.
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4 1114 But, in less than a quarter of an hour, I had felt sensations overwhelming me which I could not resist.
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5 187 I was only a slave, but I did not think myself much less free than the Lady Sabina, whose beauty was being bartered for commercial and political power.
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6 79 On the other hand, I feared slave rape less than abduction.
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7 67 Less than a pasang from the camp we had come to a small tree.
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7 126 As a slave, she would be less than they, on most blocks.
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7 143 But return to me now my veils, and my sandals, too, for my ransom surely will be less if it be understood my modesty has been so grievously compromised.
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7 317 I was examined with less respect, being a slave, than would have been accorded to a bosk heifer.
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7 370 Given the opportunity to relate to a true man, few women will settle for less.
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7 602 The flesh of a girl would be less likely to slip from their hands.
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7 848 In this way I hoped to be less conspicuous, to be more difficult to detect.
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7 1045 And yet I sensed that my intelligence was indeed far less than his, and that of most of the Gorean men I had met.
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9 599 But in less than an hour I had collapsed in the traces, unconscious.
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9 1142 "I will sell her to you for less," said Melina.
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9 2211 "Tomorrow," said Thurnus, "you will have less time to think, and more time to work".
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9 2363 Once a man understands that a woman can be a pleasure slave how will he ever thereafter want her as anything different or see her as anything less? Sandal Thong then herself knelt before Thurnus, she, too, as a pleasure slave.
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11 325 They held less valuable, bulk goods.
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12 489 Gate after gate I tried along the passageway below the steel door, those gates giving access to the storage areas for larger, less valuable merchandise, but all were locked.
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15 192 It was as though each of us desired to appear more frigid and less passionate than the other, as though the restriction or impairment of our natural sexuality were somehow desirable or meritorious.
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20 66 Intelligent women are more quickly and easily trainable; they learn more quickly; they are quickly apprised, for example, of what the whip can do to them, and so they are almost immediately zealously eager to please; accordingly, they are less likely to be frequently whipped; they tend, too, to have...
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20 210 It is one less thing to concern herself with.
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21 76 They carry much less cargo than a round ship, but lean and shallow-drafted, they are much faster.
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22 69 Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ...
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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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22 370 "You think I could not be 'slave naked'! You think then I am less beautiful than a slave!" "Forgive me, Mistress!" I wept.
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22 448 The slave without a collar is, of course, no less a slave.
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26 599 "To be feminine is to be less than a man!" she said.
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27 325 There are many ways of conveying these needs, other than a glance, a seemingly inadvertent touch, and such, many of which are more or less stylized, and some of which involve clearly established conventions.
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27 364 Perhaps he wanted to try to think of me more as a woman's slave than a man's slave, or as more of a tower slave than a pleasure slave, so he would be the less attracted to me.
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27 447 He had made a profit on Slave Beads whom he had had, I understood, for less than one silver tarsk in the market, and had yet retained the good will of Thandar of Ti, a valued customer.
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28 11 You are not special, you are only another slave, a bit more or less pleasing than others.
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28 63 When it takes longer to sell a girl it usually means that she is less interesting to the buyers, and that the bids are slow, or that she, an unusual beauty, is being more elaborately displayed, with the object in mind of intensifying and driving up the eventual bids.
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28 125 For one thing, it meant that the auctioneer would be in a good humor and that, thus, he would probably be less cruel with us on the block.
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28 128 Even when a girl is not sold, if the sales have gone well, she is less likely to be whipped.
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Book 12. (46 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 197 His games, in recent years, had seemed less battles, less cruel, exact duels, than obscure attempts to achieve something on the Kaissa board which even many members of the caste of players did not profess to understand.
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1 219 Had it been longer on my scent I think I might have had less time for its hunting frenzy would have been more upon it, a function in part of the secretions of certain glands.
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1 371 This makes her happy, not simply because then she knows she is less likely to be punished, but because she, in her heart, being a woman, truly desires to please one who is her complete master.
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2 15 "Kurii were ready once," said I, "or some party of them, to destroy Gor, to clear the path to Earth, a world they would surely favor less.
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2 607 Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
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3 20 The young women, who are free, if the rules permit, as they sometimes do not, commonly wear masks, that their modesty be less grievously compromised by the brevity of their costume.
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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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3 886 "We would have less to fear from a woman," said the girl on the end.
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3 1110 In his left hand he carried a bundle of furs, smaller now, than it had been, and a sack, which was now less bulky than it had been when I had seen it earlier near the puppet theater.
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4 200 It was the luminosity of his reputation which had seemed to make the grandeur of Scormus less glorious.
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4 254 At the least the opponent is less likely to be familiar with these supposedly obsolete, refutable beginnings.
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6 498 In bending, in submission, in total, will-less submission to a master, they find themselves free for the first time from the chains of egoism, liberated from the grasping pursuits of the self, readied for the surrenders of love.
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6 576 It bore less weight.
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6 839 "Is your modesty less offended now?" he asked.
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7 92 In less than a quarter of an Ahn we had come to the tavern of Sarpedon.
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7 119 The girls seemed then less tense.
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7 146 To turn such a herd from its migratory destination would be less easy than to turn the course of a flood.
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10 220 It does not escape from the bottom because warm air, being less dense than cold air, tends to rise.
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10 288 "Speak less," said a guard.
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11 195 Weeping they fled to the cook shack, trying with their small hands to adjust their garments so that they would reveal less of their beauty.
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12 211 The fresh-water ice from which such blocks are formed is less dense than the salt water in which they float, weighing only about seven-eighths as much.
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12 251 I am pleased in some respects that words are less dangerous than arrows and daggers, else there surely would have been little left of me.
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12 350 Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes.
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12 351 Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt.
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12 627 "Gorean men," I said, "you will learn are less tolerant of pretense than the men of Earth".
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15 483 The bliss of many slave girls now seemed less puzzling to me.
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15 494 Slavery also, of course, encompasses the ownership of male slaves, for which there is less precedent in nature.
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15 752 Some slave girls are hotter than others, of course, just as some free women are less cold than others, whether this pleases them or not.
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21 22 Also, it seems to me objectively true that they are less sensitive to cold than many other types of individual.
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21 274 Indeed, similarity, routine, identity, boredom, those things which tend to make a woman less interesting, tend often to be functions of widespread conformances to externally imposed demands and images.
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21 285 Whether you are of more or less interest than your duller sisters in their intellectual cages congratulating themselves on how free they are is not important.
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21 297 "There is a sense, of course," I said, "in which you are supposedly of less interest than a free woman".
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21 334 "Do you find men now that you are a slave more or less interesting than when you were free?" I asked.
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23 99 The Kur who is only a beast is less dangerous in most situations than the Kur who is more than a beast.
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25 101 This habit, of course, tends to be less fruitful in a terrain of sea ice, such as that in which we now found ourselves, because of the bizarre, twisted sameness of much of the icescape.
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25 112 The shape of a peninsula on which he may have a permanent camp, for example, is of less interest to him than is the direction and distance to the next nearest camp.
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26 214 The structure of the drift, thus, is less likely to contain faults, strata and cleavages, which would result in the blocks being weaker and more likely to break apart.
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26 352 In less than an Ahn Imnak, to my amazement, left the half-constructed shelter, and, walking among gorged sleen, and feeding sleen, and dead sleen, went to the drift and began to carry blocks back to the shelter.
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30 184 "Do you think a warrior can show less mercy than an Assassin?" I asked.
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31 101 "Fire, and cooked meat," I said, "makes possible a smaller jaw and smaller teeth, permitting less cranial musculature and permitting the development of a larger brain case".
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32 129 "Let us speak of less sensitive topics," he said.
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33 19 I suspect there were few, if any, in that steel complex, even of his own breed, with whom he could converse warmly, excitedly, swiftly, in detail, as he did with me, where a word might suggest a paragraph, a glance, a lifted paw signify what might with a less attuned interlocutor require hours of co...
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35 80 Ship Kurii, crashed or marooned on Earth, have usually made their way to remote areas, not simply to avoid human habitations but to secure access to a less polluted, more tolerable atmosphere.
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35 450 Perhaps she is less critical than the male.
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35 634 I then took forth a long, linear face veil; it was red; it was an intimacy veil; any given layer of this veil is quite diaphanous; its opacity is a function of the number of times it is wrapped about the face; a free woman, entertaining an anxious lover, might detain him for days, each night permitt...
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35 742 In less than four Ehn, from that point, the track system terminated.
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Book 13. (43 results) Explorers of Gor

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49 69 They are less to be feared than desert zads, I believe, being less aggressive.
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1 80 Anything else is less than his fulfillment.
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1 141 "I am less easy to please than Krobus," he said.
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1 454 "It is my speculation," I said, "that the girl below in the pens, in the tharlarion cell, in spite of the fact that she is, though beautiful, less stunning than many slaves, is simple collar meat, that she was brought to Gor for straightforward disposition to a slaver, perhaps in a contract lot".
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3 51 Once she has begun to learn the orgasms of the slave girl she can never again be contented with anything less.
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4 38 Had she been less ignorant of Gor she would not have dared to escape.
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4 379 It would be less than an Ahn until the fullness of the tide.
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4 606 "In less than half an Ahn it will be full".
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5 395 "Her movements have become less constricted.
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5 397 She is becoming less inhibited.
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5 495 Who discards precious possessions, who surrenders treasures? If the slave girl were worth less perhaps she would be freed more.
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6 566 It is not really dry but actually a season of less rain.
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6 577 Once again, if there is much to this, I would prefer to think of two rainy seasons and two less rainy seasons.
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6 583 The rising of the warm air leaves a vacuum, so to speak, or, better, an area of less pressure or density in the atmosphere.
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6 584 Into this less dense area, this "hole," so to speak, cooler air pours, like invisible liquid, from both the north and south.
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7 80 "There is less area to be covered".
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12 82 To be sure, I had withdrawn from the slatted grille with less care than I had approached it.
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12 630 Had I tried to obtain her for less than six tarsks or he tried to obtain more for her I think the situation could have become unpleasant.
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13 297 "But they do not listen, do they? Perhaps you are not like the women you want to be? Perhaps you are less or more.
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13 495 This time, in less than ten Ehn, she began to squirm, and cry.
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14 465 This is less expensive than having it done in a pen.
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15 169 I did not think that if they set their minds to it they would be less ingenious than Kurii.
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16 43 Schendi was using the misfortune of the levies in order, as much as possible, to rid itself of its less desirable citizens.
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16 60 A message may be conveyed by means of drum stations for hundreds of pasangs in less than an Ahn.
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17 19 "Gold is perhaps of less interest to him than glory," I said.
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18 26 I had no doubt as to the courage of Kisu; I was less confident, however, that he had the common sense and wisdom expected of a Mfalme.
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18 79 That his fingers be removed was accounted mercy on the part of Bila Huruma, that he be able to cling less long to the pole and his miseries be the sooner terminated.
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18 81 His crime, thus, was regarded as the less heinous.
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27 57 They were less likely to fall from it, I realized, than an Earthling to tumble from one of his sidewalks.
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32 166 The nocturnal jungle is cooler, sometimes even chilly, and the air, a little thinner, a shade less rich, is different, the sun's energy no longer powering the complex reaction chains of photosynthesis.
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32 219 They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes.
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32 316 It is not that he is less an animal than, say, the zeder or sleen, but rather that he is a more complicated animal than they.
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32 317 In a sense, given the rigors of evolution and selection, the human contains in itself not less animality than his brethren whom we choose to place lower on the phylogenetic scale than ourselves but more.
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32 318 The human is not less of an animal than they, but more.
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32 328 "Is it less silly," I asked, "if it is done by human beings?" "Perhaps not," she said.
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36 23 "The less evidence there is of strangers on the river the safer we shall all be".
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40 20 "Do you think me any the less conquered than Janice and Alice, my white sisters in bondage?" she asked.
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40 49 "Do you think me less than the white slaves?" she asked.
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40 51 "You are neither more nor less than they.
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43 135 In less than a quarter of an Ahn we had considerably lengthened our lead on our pursuers.
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48 134 Actually, of course, it seems likely that their hatred of slave girls, which tends to be unreasoning and vicious, is due less to lofty sentiments than to their own intense jealousy of the joy and fulfillment of their embonded sisters.
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51 16 The equations of misery are registered not only in the conscious annals of pain but, too, are tallied no less in the very chemistry of the body.
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57 315 "It is less dangerous now for an outlander to remain in Schendi," I said, "since Ayari became wazir to Bila Huruma".
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Book 14. (20 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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32 332 It was a sense of honor less germane to the accountant and merchant than to the peasant or warrior, less germane to the lamb than to the lion.
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1 203 Your thinking is less analogous to the playing of tapes than it is to the photography of facts".
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1 245 "But I would be less worried, if I were you, about what people believed to be true than about what was true.
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3 23 The gravity of this world was different from that of my own, being slightly less.
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4 67 Lola, I conjecture, was in the neighborhood of five feet four inches tall and would have weighed about one hundred and twenty pounds; Tela, who was a bit smaller, I would conjecture would have been about five feet three inches tall and would have weighed a pound or two less, perhaps about one hundre...
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5 236 You have gained weight but look more trim, for the weight now is more that of muscle and less that of fat".
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7 295 I then, less gently than I should have, perhaps, threw her on her belly on the table.
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7 427 If they did, it seems that misunderstandings, divorces, and such, would be less frequent.
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7 959 "The contrasts, over time," I said, "will grow less.
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10 249 "It will make you less tense".
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11 341 "Perhaps, in the darkness," I said, "I might be briefly unnoticed, at least long enough to obtain more suitable, less conspicuous garments".
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12 23 The question was less as to why women would wish to wear them than as to why anyone would wish to wear them.
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12 27 Did they not imitate men in their eccentricities and stupidities as well as in other features their portrayal or characterization would surely seem the less convincing and plausible.
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18 144 Such garments, far less formal than the common attire of the Gorean free woman, are sometimes worn by rich women in the supervision and inspection of certain sorts of holdings, such as orchards, fields, ranches and vineyards.
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22 494 "He is one of my less important stable slaves.
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25 306 We had, thus, far less freedom of movement than is commonly accorded to females.
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25 352 "They will be here in an Ehn or less," cried Kenneth.
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26 361 "What of me?" "You will be left here as a trussed, female fool," I said, "to be a prisoner for others, others who presumably will be less particular about the intelligence of their captives".
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29 44 "Of course," she said, "the shameless slut!" "I did not think her more or less responsive than you," I said.
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32 331 The honor of Gor, I suspected, was a harsher honor, one more demanding and less compromising.
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Book 15. (12 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 347 The intelligent woman, of course, now put to her knees, quickly grasps what she now is, and what is expected of her; she now realizes that she is now, presumably for the first time in her life, in the presence of masters, authentic masters of women; she is well aware of the collar on her neck, and i...
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4 445 "Because then," she said, "I have less to fear".
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4 687 We trust you will be no less generous".
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6 110 In the log walls, at various heights, but usually less than a yard from the floor, there occur slave rings.
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10 196 Gor, it seems, had improved her sense of self-awareness or, at least, had freed her to be somewhat less circumspect about such matters.
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10 216 Clearly the slave saw Miss Henderson as no more than another slave, rather as herself, except, perhaps, for being a bit more or less beautiful.
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11 236 They bring the fullness of my womanhood out of me, and are content with nothing less.
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13 135 Otherwise, to their humiliation, they would confess themselves less than others".
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25 37 "I, too, then," said Tasdron, "will do no less".
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31 40 Perhaps it would have been less unpleasant if our captors had permitted us clothing.
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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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33 122 Although we retained our theoretical reservations about its effectiveness, these reservations, in the very presence of the chain, seemed, to my relief, less alarming, and more tenuous and abstract, than they had in the urgent discussions which had taken place in the tavern of Tasdron.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 914 There are a variety of reasons for this, but most are subtle, and have to do less with physiognomy, less with face and figure, than with appetition, passion, sensitivity, emotional liberation, the natural fulfillments of needs, and such.
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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13 1442 "Do you feel now less than you were before," I asked, "less important, somehow less significant?" "No," she said, "I feel ten thousand times more important, more significant, than I was before".
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19 241 "Even if he would permit me less," said the red-haired girl, "I would not want, even of my own free will, to give him less".
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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36 1362 How many women are, that way, and to that extent? We are wanted so much that nothing will satisfy them less than taking us in hand, and owning us! We are that desirable! They want us that much! And they will have nothing less from us than the perfection they desire of a woman.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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4 171 One advantage of the more southern route is that it passes through less rough terrain, terrain which provides less cover for highwaymen.
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10 233 She is also likely to be less socially controlled, so more willing to explore these needs and desires, and such, than a less intelligent woman.
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13 330 In this I supposed they tended to make their presence among the urts less obvious to outside observers and perhaps, too, less obvious, or obtrusive, to the urts themselves.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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5 476 In a city, after a few switchings, I was sure Feiqa would learn a common lesson of slave girls, namely, that compared to free women she was less than dirt beneath their slippers, less than garbage in the sewers, that she would learn to avoid them if at all possible, and, if addressed, kneel before t...
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Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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11 63 There had been signs painted too, I gathered, here and there among similar signs, usually on poorer streets, or in alleys, where magistrates, less inclined to object, were also less prone to patrol.
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11 1610 In each hour on Gor it seemed to be becoming less and less effective.
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22 98 "Sometimes," he said, "I think a lure girl should be less beautiful, less striking, perhaps, than you.
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29 862 This, I supposed, was a readiness response, making them less vulnerable, less likely to be torn or bitten.
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Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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10 23 The sapping trench, of course, requires much less labor on the part of the besiegers but, too, it is less difficult to detect and stop than the mines.
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15 537 "But if your thoughts in this matter had been correct," I said, "it might have been too bad, might it not, for many of the other women of Ar's Station, women less fortunate, less rich, than you, who lacked the means wherewith to purchase their lives?" "That could not be my concern," she said, angril...
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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17 29 Why is there anything? Why is there anything at all? Why not just nothing? Wouldn't "nothing" be more likely, more rational, more scientific? When did time begin? Where does space end? On a line, at the surface of a sphere? Do our definitions constrain reality? What if reality does not know our lang...
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21 403 'You! I see it! You! You silly little chit, you meaningless little collared slut! You, who are less than a verr or tarsk, you who are less than the dirt on the street, love Milo!' "'So, too, do a thousand women in Ar!' I cried".
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Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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13 212 Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; ou...
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18 94 What a mistake it was that they had been permitted to be free, ever! Usually they are only too eager to be sold from their former city, and serve gratefully in a less hostile, less bitter, less rancorous environment, where they will be simply accepted as the slaves they now are.
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28 22 In this fashion it was perhaps less distractive, less luxurious and slavelike.
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29 228 I was startled by this outburst, and looked up, more closely than before, less unobtrusively, less furtively.
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Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

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16 529 The street himation is far less bulky and protective than the usual Robes of Concealment, less stiffness, less brocade, less embroidery and such.
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20 855 "There may be others, less honest, less noble, less loyal than yourselves to the empire, and we would not wish them to be dissuaded from returning properties such as this to their rightful owners".
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27 3303 And is it not natural to suppose that the lighter labors might descend to the slighter beasts, the softer, prettier beasts who stood in need of male protection, those less fitted for war and long treks, those less wisely pitted against the mastodon, the cave bear, the panther, the stranger, those wh...
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30 736 That sort of thing, I think, is more common on Earth, where, unfortunately, I fear that some males, hopefully few, see women less as wondrous and delicious properties, less as fascinating, attractive, beautiful, desirable domestic animals, less as possessions to be sought, owned, relished, celebrate...
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9 93 Then she would at least have better fitted in with her surroundings; she would then have felt less anomalous, less conspicuous, more congruent with her lovely milieu.
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11 795 On the other hand, there was also doubtless something to be said for a virginal, dewy, youthful eighteen, not so much perhaps from the point of view of the slave herself, as she would tend to be looked down upon, and be regarded as relatively inconsequential, even by her sister slaves, but from the ...
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13 549 To be sure, these considerations are based largely on legal fictions, for, in fact, free women do have tangible values, the higher born being valued better than the lower born, the upper castes over the lower castes, the more intelligent over the less intelligent, the more beautiful over the less be...
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20 843 "Some less grateful to their beloved benefactors, some less loyal to the empire?" suggested the man.
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23 178 A movement, a glance, a word, a gesture which might cause no more than a moment's irritation or disgruntlement to a typical male of Earth, used to such abuse, might have different consequences altogether with another sort of man, a man less tolerant and less accommodating than those on whom she was ...
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27 76 For example, to take a very simple case, a woman who is less beautiful but more intelligent is more likely to find herself in the chains of a master, subject to his whip, than one who is more beautiful but less intelligent.
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30 647 The less I know, the less I understand, the safer, or so he deems, I will be.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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36 77 Is the knife then less noble than the hand, and the sword less noble than the knife, and the spear less noble than the sword?" "No," said Grendel.
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8 166 "We can do with harder countries than humans," said Agamemnon, "with less arable soils, with wastelands, with mountainous areas, with desolate latitudes, arid and rocky, latitudes unfriendly to humans, with deserts, and such, areas of less interest to humans".
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10 35 "Would not a mere switching, or lashing, or even a scolding word, backed by the whip, be sufficient to encourage her to be less awkward, less careless? Do not females understand such things?" The deportment of slaves is to be seemly, of course, for they are in collars.
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44 47 Indeed, interestingly, in the tensions, and the exigencies, and terrors, of war, each species was beginning to see the other in a different light, the one less as monster than colleague, the other less as food than friend.
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64 164 Too, most female slaves are worth less than a sleen, certainly less than a good sleen".
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73 163 "Perhaps," said Lord Arcesilaus, "our folk will become less precipitate, and driven, and become somewhat more civil, less inclined to hasty, violent response, if their needs and desires are fulfilled, if vessels are at hand, properties, which they may subject to their will, which they may rule, and ...
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Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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19 234 "Some, less swift, some less valorous, some more fearful, some less frightened, some more circumspect, some more clever, may remain within," I said.
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40 113 Behold such, stripped, and put up for sale! See her turned, extolled, exhibited! Would you not bid on such goods? Who would wish to take anything less off the block? Who would wish to own anything less? Surely you would not wish to have anything less in your collar? So bid well.
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7 66 They are a softer wood, and, less rigid, more flexible, are more inclined to bend with the wind and the yard, and so, under certain conditions, violent conditions, less likely to snap.
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16 56 Also, it can intimidate a less organized, less disciplined enemy.
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16 251 It is a quiet business, without drums and trumpets, less apparent to the eye than wagons, bellowing tharlarion, the dust of marching columns, trains of cordaged artillery drawn through mud, and such, but I think it not less essential.
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38 276 He was presumably less a warrior than a mercenary, and less a mercenary than a brigand.
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Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

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12 692 "Less insecure, less fragile, I fear," said he, "than a hundred others, remote passageways, darkened corners, blind turnings".
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34 85 "You would sell for far less than a tarn, and much less than a sleen or kaiila, but more, usually, than a tarsk or verr".
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36 14 One supposed that Lord Yamada, in his less-straitened circumstances, would be less motivated to seek foreign goods, but, too, one supposed, if he were once apprised of tarns, as presumably he soon would be, and might now be, he would be eager to supply himself with so valuable a military arm.
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 500 But what if I had been saved for last, as I had been thought not the best, but the least? Could it be that others might regard me as less beautiful, less desirable, than I regarded myself? Was I less beautiful, less desirable, than I had thought? Surely I had been regarded as one of the most beautif...
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4 665 And I wondered, suddenly, what it would be to encounter a man so virile and strong, so powerful and lustful, that he would be satisfied with nothing less than my absolute possession, with nothing less than owning me, with nothing less than having me as his slave.
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52 155 What woman wants to relate to a man by whom she is not so wanted, wanted with such force and power, with such demand and uncompromising will, with such desire, with such lust, that nothing less than her absolute possession will satisfy him? The master will be satisfied with nothing less than his sla...
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4 175 "For offenses less meaningful, less heinous, expulsion is in order," she said.
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4 297 Rawlinson, "'sluts,' all of you, and less than that, far less, if you but knew".
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5 63 Certainly we are muchly sought for? Is it not for us that citadels are stormed and caravans raided, that we may be coffled and led naked to your markets? Surely you cannot deny our importance, negligible though we may be? Are we not somehow special amongst your animals, though we commonly sell for l...
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8 142 Would you explain such things to sleen or kaiila? I did note that the footing was now less smooth, less polished, more irregular.
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8 370 "Yes, Master!" Well now was I aware of how I might have responded had they been concerned less to routinely open a young slave and had they been more patient, slower, less merciful.
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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.
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27 101 The lighting tended to differ from area to area, depending on whether the area was largely utilized by humans or Kurii, humans desiring more light, and Kurii needing less, or wanting less, at least as compared to the humans.
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41 27 Lucius, from his former position of authority, was extremely familiar with the Cave, not only with its open halls, and its less open, or more restricted, halls, but, too, as it turned out, with a diversity of less recognized passageways, several of which were obscure and unfamiliar, if not secret.
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Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 281 Perhaps they were less important, or less visible, or would be less readily denounced, being less hated.
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5 31 I thought he might seem one less familiar with escalators than mountains, less at home with engines and calculators than with horses and falcons, than with fire, bows, and steel.
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9 282 Or perhaps they had less to offer the enemy, and thus were of less interest to them Or perhaps they were stronger than their betters, more willing to suffer and wait, and endure.
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38 118 Perhaps it was a prejudice of my caste, but it seemed to me that in the second case the transaction was less hypocritical, less deceitful, more open, and honest.
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50 159 And few women of my former world, I supposed, had ever found themselves the object of a passion so intense, so fierce, and demanding, that it could be satisfied with nothing less than their absolute possession, their ownership, with nothing less than their being the belonging of their master.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 500 Female slaves, while commonly less expensive than kaiila, and many times less expensive than tarns, are surely amongst the most lovely of gifts.
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13 149 The less a slave girl knows the less she can betray, deliberately or inadvertently.
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21 291 "I feared," she said, "as less, as worlds less".
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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7 255 But it was cleaner, fresher, less gray, less contaminated, I suppose.
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9 101 Was it not appropriate for a bitch to be kenneled?" But then I recalled that I was less than a bitch, far less than a bitch.
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13 135 Indeed, one wonders if some things might be demeaned, and less lovely, and less worthy of regard, had they such a purpose.
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27 88 Perhaps here, though the shipment might be less safe, in theory, it might be safer, in fact, might be more easily concealed, might be less likely to be noticed.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 360 Men are thus to become less like men, and more like women, and women are to become less like women, and more like men.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 60 It spoke less of men than of designing monsters, less of piracy than policy, less of spoil than extermination.
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18 82 It seems probable that, long ago, thousands of years ago, the nemesis of the hith was less the carnivorous tharlarion with which it thought to dispute its world, but an unexpected adversary, smaller and weaker, more vulnerable and fragile, but less forgiving and tolerant, more determined and tenacio...
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41 19 It was certainly capable of lofting great weights but perhaps it was less capable, less precise, when it came to meeting certain challenges of adjustment, those pertaining, for example, to distance and targeting.
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