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Book 1. (44 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	109	Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.	10
6	158	After all, what did I expect? That she would thank me for saving her life? She had undoubtedly left me to the tharlarion, rejoicing in the luck of a Ubar's daughter, that her enemies might destroy one another while she escaped with her life.	10
1	210	For the first time in my life I had felt full, unreasoning fear, and it had gripped me like the paws of some grotesque predatory animal.	10
2	184	"Sometimes," said my father, his eyes still faraway, "when men are old or have had enough of life, they assault the mountains, looking for the secret of immortality in the barren crags.	10
2	229	Moreover, in moving through space, without a sun for photosynthesis and warmth, all life would surely have been destroyed.	10
2	232	Theoretically, I did admit that the planet might have been moved without destroying its life, but the engineering magnitude of such a feat staggered the imagination.	10
2	233	Perhaps life might have been suspended temporarily or hidden beneath the planet's surface with sufficient sustenance and oxygen for the incredible journey.	10
3	110	Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother.	10
4	111	Besides, I had a headache like the beating of spears on a bronze shield, a headache that drove all lesser considerations, such as the attempt on my life yesterday, from my mind.	10
4	118	The Older Tarl and I may have drunk too much of that fermented brew concocted with fiendish skill from the yellow grain, Sa-Tarna, and called Pagar-Sa-Tarna, Pleasure of the Life-Daughter, but almost always "paga" for short.	10
4	161	"Is it to that city that you pledge your life, your honor, and your sword?" asked my father.	10
5	32	I would not permit the plan of the Council to be followed completely, not in her case, even though she had agreed to play her part in the plan, knowing it meant her life.	10
5	37	He, in accordance with the plan of the Council, had need of a girl who would be willing to give her life to be avenged on the men of Ar.	10
5	39	She had been through too much and was clearly not of the stock of the tavern girls; slavery would not have been a good life for her, as it might have been for them.	10
5	49	The next would be the Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna, the Life-Daughter, celebrated early in the growing season to insure a good harvest.	10
5	107	"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ...	10
5	135	If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.	10
5	153	The thought crossed my mind of giving up the project, turning outlaw, if you will, deserter, if you like, but of saving my own skin, trying to get out of this mad scheme if only with my life, and that only for a time.	10
6	98	"You have saved my life," I said.	10
6	100	"My web saved your life," corrected the insect.	10
6	170	"This is the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus," said Nar, and added ironically, "She did not remember to thank you for saving her life, which is strange, is it not, for a rational creature?" "Silence, Insect," said the daughter of the Ubar, her voice loud, clear, and imperious.	10
6	192	"Where is the tarn?" I repeated, more interested at the moment in the fate of my fierce mount than in the ridiculous piece of rock I had risked my life to obtain.	10
7	56	After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water lizards.	10
7	131	"You have saved my life again," said the daughter of the Ubar.	10
8	125	"The life of a Ubar is uncertain".	10
8	151	I recalled the attempt on my life in the cylinder of my father, an attempt that would have been successful except for the alertness of the Older Tarl.	10
10	38	I set myself to sell my life dearly.	10
10	106	* * * * The next few days were among the happiest of my life, as Talena and I became a part of Mintar's slow, ample caravan, members of its graceful, interminable, colorful procession.	10
11	57	It was an accepted, ordinary part of the life of Gor.	10
12	77	Oddly enough, I cried out to the stars in joy, still clinging to life, unwilling to lament the fact that my miseries must now be prolonged.	10
12	86	I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was.	10
12	89	Far below, I could see that the burned, dead Margin of Desolation was dotted here and there with patches of green, where some handfuls of seed had blindly asserted themselves, reclaiming something of that devastated country for life and growth.	10
13	58	I turned to regard the individual whose life I had saved.	10
14	3	Yet this was the first time since I had saved his life that I had seen him.	10
14	30	"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that the...	10
14	80	"Then she valued her life more than my honor".	10
14	126	"She agreed to be the mate of Pa-Kur, the Assassin," he said, "in order that you might have one small chance of life, on the Frame of Humiliation".	10
15	103	"Life is short," I said.	10
15	230	"Only to save her life," I said.	10
15	231	"And rumor has it," said Mintar, not looking up from the board, "that she pledged herself to Pa-Kur only that some tarnsman she loved might be given a small chance of life".	10
16	143	This must be Talena whom I loved, to whom my life belonged.	10
18	82	Some contained worn sleeping mats of cold, moldy straw, some contained a few rusted metal utensils, such as kettles and pails, but most were completely empty, revealing no signs of life or use at all.	10
19	111	"It is forbidden!" Heedlessly, the insane old man tensed for the blow that would end the life of the girl.	10
20	29	In Ar democracy is a long-forgotten way of life that will require careful remembering.	10

Book 2. (35 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	41	It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling.	10
2	51	It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the Home Stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.	10
3	113	Impulsively, as though it were a life-giving plank in the maelstrom of his fear, he seized the ax.	10
5	116	Nor shall I grovel to the Priest-Kings nor live the life of shame they have allotted to me".	10
6	3	Indeed, at least once in his life every Gorean is expected to make this journey.	10
6	14	Gor, sparsely inhabited by human beings, teems with animal life, and in the next weeks I had no difficulty in living by hunting.	10
6	21	It is simply a way of life to which he is accustomed.	10
6	53	The harsh, exogamous institution of capture is woven into the very fabric of Gorean life.	10
8	6	On the whole they seemed to me a pale and depressed lot, but I was confident they could accomplish what they set their minds to, that they might succeed in tasks which the average Gorean male, with his impatience and lightness of heart, would simply abandon as distasteful or not worth the effort, fo...	10
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 ...	10
9	37	I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the ye...	10
9	38	The expression is related to Sa-Tassna, the expression for meat, or for food in general, which means Life-Mother.	10
9	39	Paga is a corruption of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, which means Pleasure of the Life-Daughter.	10
9	146	"I have lived all my life in Tharna," I told them.	10
11	170	"It is a trick to buy his life".	10
11	201	"Ost never gave anything away in his life," roared Thorn, wiping his mouth, struggling to regain his composure.	10
14	181	And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...	10
14	206	In one instant that must have been the most terrifying in her life, the Tatrix stood alone, looking up, deserted by all, on the steps before her golden throne in the midst of tumbled cushions and trays of candies and sweetmeats.	10
15	30	Yet the tarnsman chooses no other life.	10
17	23	Andreas said to me, "For those who are not fond of life, this place has many conveniences".	10
17	50	"You will inform against no one," said a voice, which I recognized as that of the bull-like Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, he whose life I had spared in the arena during the Battles of Oxen.	10
17	84	The life expectancy of the mine slave, given the labor and food, if he does not die under the whips of the overseers, is usually from six months to one year.	10
17	111	He had understood me, and he knew that his life was in danger.	10
19	132	"Are you truly of the Caste of Poets?" "Never more truly than now," said Andreas, "for how could my songs be more important than the things they celebrate?" I marveled that he had said this, for I knew that the young Andreas of Tor might have given his arm or years of his life for what might be a tr...	10
20	39	I had seen its shadow and feared it was wild, and had prepared to sell my life dearly, but the great beast, my own plumed giant, who may have haunted the Pillar of Exchanges for weeks, settled on the plains no more than thirty yards from me, its great wings shaking, and stalked to my side.	10
20	94	The bird's eyes, perhaps for the first time in his life, were filled with terror, blind uncomprehending terror.	10
20	99	In drunken, dizzy circles, screaming, bewildered, helpless, the bird fell, while I, for my life, desperately clung to the thick quills of his neck.	10
21	237	Upon reflection it seemed clear to me that the chain must, in the end, be a lonely place for a girl, filled with life, knowing that her brand has destined her for love, that each of them must long for a man to care enough for them to buy them, that each must long to follow a man home to his compartm...	10
22	31	"Nor have I," she said proudly, making it clear that she would ask me for nothing, and expect nothing of me, not even her life.	10
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...	10
23	4	Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen...	10
25	114	I wondered how it was that Thorn had given his life for this woman.	10
25	154	Perhaps she might be purchased for the scullery in a Gorean cylinder and discover her life to be bounded by the tile walls and the steam and soap of the cleaning tubs.	10
26	115	It now seems to me that if I had simply returned to Gor, and to my city, my father, my friends and my beloved Talena, I might not have cared to enter the Sardar, that I would not have cared to relinquish the joys of life to inquire into the secrets of those dark mountains.	10
26	122	I regret only that none return from the Sardar, for I have loved life.	10

Book 3. (52 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	34	But under the circumstances—it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is.	10
20	193	And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom denied even by the citizens of the gi...	10
1	40	My small friend, Torm of Ko-ro-ba, of the Caste of Scribes, had been to the fairs four times in his life.	10
1	53	Torm had stumbled into more than one well in his life and no one who knew him would think it strange to find him sputtering about at the bottom of one.	10
1	64	Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the Caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between Priest-Kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as little about the Priest-Kings as...	10
1	75	The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ...	10
1	80	Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw.	10
2	19	Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to Priest-Kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wretches who think to find the ...	10
2	86	My life was in my own hands and I was content that this should be so.	10
2	100	It is thus that, should the spears miss their mark, he sacrifices his life for his companions who will, while the larl attacks him, make good their escape.	10
2	101	This may seem cruel but in the long run it tends to be conservative of human life; it is better, as the Goreans say, for one man to die than many.	10
3	20	I had barely escaped with my life.	10
4	8	Perhaps they would regard it as a useless excrescence detracting from the more sober values of life, such as, I supposed, study, meditation and the manipulation of the lives of men.	10
5	207	Vika's life, in its way, had been hard, and I wished her no harm.	10
8	159	Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one.	10
8	168	It was an arrogant, never-conquered citadel, a stronghold of men whose way of life was banditry, whose women lived on the spoils of a hundred cities.	10
9	9	Should she be tempted to forget this basic fact of Gorean life the slave ring set in the bottom of each Gorean couch is there to refresh her memory.	10
14	137	"And it occurred on the day on which she saved my life," said Misk.	10
14	140	We came upon a Golden Beetle though none had ever been seen in that place and I wanted to go to the Beetle and I put down my head and approached it but the girl seized my antennae and dragged me away, thus saving my life".	10
14	143	In an Ahn of course I no longer wanted to go to the Beetle and I knew then she had saved my life.	10
15	78	At one time we were rich and filled with life and in that time our great patterns were formed and in another time our arts flourished and then for a very long time our only passion was scientific curiosity, but now even that lessens, even that lessens".	10
15	128	"Do Priest-Kings believe in a life after death?" I asked.	10
15	130	"No," I said, "I mean individual life".	10
16	53	"According to our calculations, which may of course be mistaken, life as you know it on the earth will destroy itself within the next thousand years".	10
19	42	It is possible that had it not been for them and the changes they wrought in an ancient form of life there might have been no such modifications, for such modifications might then have been of little practical utility and thus, if they had occurred, might not have been perpetuated".	10
19	97	"In the accomplishing of this matter you do a great service to the Nest and to Priest-Kings, and thereby will you gain great glory for yourself and a life of honor and riches, the first of which will be the slave girl Vika of Treve".	10
20	195	There is, of course, a natural tendency in the rescued female to feel and demonstrate great gratitude to the man who has saved her life, and the Gorean custom is perhaps no more than an institutionalization of this customary response.	10
20	197	The man then, after having been forced to risk his life, is seldom in a mood to use the girl other than as his slave.	10
20	203	On the other hand the Gorean attitude is that she would be dead were it not for his brave action and thus it is his right, now that he has won her life, to make her live it for him precisely as he pleases, which is usually, it must unfortunately be noted, as his slave girl, for the privileges of a F...	10
20	204	Also of course a Free Companionship might be refused, in all Gorean right, by the girl, and thus a warrior can hardly be blamed, after risking his life, for not wanting to risk losing the precious prize which he has just, at great peril to himself, succeeded in winning.	10
24	14	Undoubtedly in its long life it had never encountered anything like this in its tunnels.	10
24	45	About an Ehn after I had turned and began to move away from the cavern, Vika on my shoulder, I heard from the cavern one of the strangest and most horrifying sounds I had ever heard in my life, a long, weird, frantic, enraged rush of sound, more than a rush of air, more than a wild hiss, almost a cr...	10
25	18	I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed clothing at all.	10
25	32	I could feel the tremble of life in her body and the touch of her breath on my cheek made me happy.	10
25	157	"I have saved your life," I said.	10
26	67	I felt that I might tell her that what I had done was perhaps to save her life, at least for a time, but I did not say this to her.	10
26	198	I wondered if this were perhaps the first time in her life in a matter of importance to her that she had not had her way with a man.	10
27	8	The disk was of course, untended, for in the enclosed, regulated life of the Nest theft, save for an occasional handful of salt, was unknown.	10
27	37	There was Nest Trust between us and accordingly, as a warrior and a man, I stood ready to give my life for him.	10
27	326	She seemed not to understand my question and I was afraid for her as I saw her ancient brown carcass begin to shake with spasmodic tremors which I feared might herald the close of that vast life.	10
30	33	The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow.	10
30	36	"It must not be permitted to end its own life before the control web is activated," he said.	10
30	207	"His life for yours," said Sarm.	10
30	210	"We will have Misk's life and you will still have your slave".	10
31	18	How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a Priest-King, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us.	10
33	114	The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture.	10
34	83	She knew that I must search out Talena, spend my life if need be in the quest for she whom of all women I had chosen for my Free Companion.	10
34	109	I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where...	10
35	61	Perhaps I simply was pleased that there had not been further destruction, further loss of life.	10
35	77	"By now," I said, "any life in the egg would surely have perished".	10
35	133	"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may...	10
35	140	I would choose so to live that I might be willing that I should live that life a thousand times, even forever.	10

Book 4. (32 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	21	But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a...	10
1	2	"Flee for your life!" I saw her eyes wild with fear for a moment above the rep-cloth veil and she had sped past me.	10
1	36	No caravans, to my knowledge, make their way to the Wagon Peoples, who are largely isolated and have their own way of life.	10
2	16	Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life.	10
2	50	The Wagon Peoples, of all those on Gor that I know, are the only ones that have a clan of torturers, trained as carefully as scribes or physicians, in the arts of detaining life.	10
3	132	The magnificent vitality of that smell, so offensive to some, astonished and thrilled me; it spoke to me of the insurgence and the swell of life itself, ebullient, raw, overflowing, unconquerable, primitive, shuffling, smelling, basic, animal, stamping, snorting, moving, an avalanche of tissue and b...	10
7	192	I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword.	10
8	101	I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri...	10
8	281	She would be running for her life.	10
8	461	But he had not; the fine little Turian wench who had been able to bite the neck of the kaiila, thereby risking her life incidentally, had seen to that.	10
9	85	I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples.	10
9	418	I stood beside Kamchak, ready to defend him with my life, yet as startled as any in the room at what had been done.	10
10	129	This, I knew, might well cost me my life.	10
10	550	It had quite possibly saved his life.	10
10	573	"Kill him!" But now, almost like a drunk man, Kamras was fighting for his life and the Tuchuk, like a bear, scarcely moving more than arm and wrist, followed him about, shuffling through the sand after him, touching him again and again with the blade.	10
11	128	I supposed that Aphris of Turia had done little in her life that was more strenuous than stepping in and out of a scented bath.	10
11	132	The life in the open air, the work, had apparently been good for her.	10
13	120	"Such a slow beast," said Kamchak, "might in battle cost a man his life".	10
16	319	The attempt on my life took place one night and the raid on Kutaituchik's wagon the next.	10
16	330	"Would you like to fight for your life?" asked Saphrar of Turia.	10
17	62	I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
18	52	Yet somehow I knew now the pool, like all forms of life, had some level of irritability.	10
21	161	I knew, though I did not speak of it with her, that she was willingly risking her life to shelter me in her native city.	10
23	219	Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th...	10
25	442	"You know little of my life and what I must do".	10
25	848	"Though I am slave," she said, "yet for the first time in my life I am free".	10
25	849	"For the first time in your life," I said, "you are a woman".	10
26	90	I gathered that Saphrar, in the years he had built his power in Turia, had for his own purposes gathered such men about him, and now he would pay the price—with his own life.	10
26	252	"Is it your intention to buy your life with the golden sphere?" "If necessary," said Saphrar, "yes!" "But I do not want it," said Kamchak.	10
26	299	It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur...	10
26	452	"Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg.	10
26	453	Then you went with Harold to the city, and so I knew that to seize the egg against such overwhelming odds you were ready to give your life.	10

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	109	If one, of course, finds oneself in effect without caste or clan, as was perhaps the case with the small fool named Hup, and one cannot work, one's life is likely to be miserable and not of great length.	10
2	186	He had further imposed restrictions on the games and contests of Ar, such that the loss of life had become infrequent, even among competing slaves.	10
3	178	He must defend, for his very life! With a trembling hand, the Vintner shoved his Second Spearman to the left, capturing the Player's First Spearman, which had not been defended.	10
4	73	The killer had wanted only the life.	10
4	87	We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...	10
5	489	"She once saved my life.	10
5	620	It was not simply that Thentis was an ally of Ko-ro-ba, but also that this Warrior had been, it seemed, slain in my stead, and that thus his life had been given for mine, and was thus mine to avenge.	10
7	163	The life of these men, I supposed, was their bond.	10
7	182	Their life would not be easy.	10
9	27	To be sold from the Curulean great block is almost a guarantee of a rich master, and a luxurious pleasant life, though it be, of course, only that of a slave.	10
9	123	"Their life is very pleasant, and very easy," said Ho-Tu.	10
12	116	I might have bought some myself but I did not wish him to recognize me, assuming that his simple mind might hold the remembrance of our first meeting, that at the tavern of Spindius, where I had saved his life.	10
12	370	On the ground level, beneath the lofty stands, there was much more life.	10
12	375	He claimed over six thousand wins and was, in Ar and certain of the northern cities generally, a quite popular hero; he was said in private life to be cruel and dissolute, venal and petty, but when he climbed to the saddle of a racing tarn there were few who did not thrill to the sight; it was said ...	10
12	398	His poor mind could not even recall the face of the man who had saved his life.	10
13	292	On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...	10
15	102	Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges...	10
15	414	I have no men! I have no gold! I have only the garb on my back! Tarnsmen! Soldiers! The very men of the street! With torches and ropes! I barely escaped with my life.	10
15	421	"I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! Caste Sanctuary! Caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's Scribe Two.	10
16	254	The crest on its head seemed to lift and each muscle and fiber in that great body seemed filled with blood and life.	10
17	307	"I hope it will be Lana who will wear the leash of Relius," she said, and then, as Virginia Kent cried out and leaped toward her, Lana turned about and sped as though for her life from the room.	10
17	441	"Every girl," she said, "should be sold at least once in her life".	10
17	789	I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent.	10
18	231	"And I laughed," said Flaminius, "and I realized that what moves men is greed, and pleasure, and power and gold, and that I, Flaminius, who had sought fruitlessly in my life to slay one disease, was a fool".	10
20	20	I could not understand why Relius and Ho-Sorl would make my cause theirs, nor why Sura, though I knew she cared for me, would so risk her life, now doubtless lost.	10
21	123	"Your life is in danger," I told him.	10
21	224	Yet I think there is one talent I have, though it is unimportant and unworthy, a gift toward which I have mixed feelings, a gift which is both boon and curse, one which has caused me feelings of horror and guilt, and yet to which I have owed my life and that of those I have loved.	10
22	397	The small bow, interestingly, has never been used among tarnsmen; perhaps this is because the kaiila is almost unknown above the equator, and the lesson of kaiilaback fighting has not been much available to them; perhaps it is because of tradition, which weighs heavily in Gorean life, and even in mi...	10
23	237	"Life is little," he said.	10
23	241	"If death is nothing," I said, "then the little that life is must be much indeed".	10

Book 6. (28 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	153	Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk...	10
1	47	Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered; it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh water were plentiful.	10
1	102	The rence growers, in spite of the value of their product, and the value of articles taken in exchange for it, and the protection of the marshes, and the rence and fish which give them ample sustenance, do not have an easy life.	10
3	12	I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise...	10
3	75	Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif...	10
3	294	It seemed to me that I had lost what might be more precious than life itself.	10
4	80	I did not even much care that I might spend the rest of my life as an abject slave, abused on a rence island, the sport of a girl or children, the butt of the cruelty and jests of men.	10
5	33	It was the brand of a male silk slave, a male pleasure slave, one whose purpose in life is to serve, and give exquisite, lengthy, intimate pleasures, upon demand, to women.	10
5	180	The bantering of the young people in the morning, and the display of the girls in the evening, for in effect in the movements of the dance every woman is nude, have both, I expect, institutional roles to play in the life of the rence growers, significant roles analogous to the roles of dating, displ...	10
8	609	"Your life will depend upon it, on how pleasing you are".	10
8	852	"Do you think your life with me will be easy?" I asked.	10
9	67	Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons.	10
9	174	Her life would surely be in jeopardy.	10
9	419	"Do I dance for my life?" begged Midice.	10
10	58	But still, even in the face of such reputed odds as he had faced, there were those in Port Kar who smiled behind his back, thinking to themselves how he had gone forth with so fine a showing and had returned with little more than his life, a handful of terrified men, and a narrow wooden punt.	10
10	78	For the first time in my life I was rich.	10
10	131	Further, raids, interspersed with smuggling and trading, had become a fairly profitable way of life, apparently for all.	10
13	102	"That you might then, for the first time in your life, be good for something," I added.	10
15	7	It spoke to me of an old life, that of a fool, which I, now grown wise, had put from me.	10
15	210	In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.	10
18	313	Why had he come to defend my holding? Was he so irrational, so mad, so contemptuous of the value of his life? He did not belong here.	10
18	320	His own life, like mine, had stood stake on the parapet of my keep.	10
18	399	"I had been told that on my seventeenth birthday a great change would occur in my life".	10
18	497	"No," I said, "life is what is important.	10
18	498	It is life that is important.	10
18	499	Life".	10
18	518	As I climbed the ladder I was glad that the old blade, the familiar steel, with its memories of another life and time, when I had been Tarl Cabot, was at my side.	10
18	893	"We anticipated," said Samos, "that your humanity would assert itself, that faced with a meaningless, ignominious death in the marshes, you would grovel and whine for your life".	10

Book 7. (47 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	169	I would wrap him about my little finger! Oh, I would have an easy life, a pampered life, with luxuries, and I would have him, a vaunted Gorean master, serve me as might a slave.	10
1	93	That was the second time in my life, to that time, that I remember crying.	10
3	104	"For the first time in your life," he said, "you are going to be what you should be, and you are going to be treated as you deserve to be treated".	10
3	267	Did he know that there was a mark on my thigh? Did he sense that? Did that mark make me somehow subtly different than I had been? Did it, somehow, set me apart from other women on this world? Could I no longer drive men away? And if I could no longer drive them away, what did that mean? What had tha...	10
3	441	Snarling and spurting the Maserati leaped into life, spitting stones and dust from its rear wheels, whipping about the corner of the bungalow.	10
5	43	But there seemed to be no sign of life about it.	10
5	66	There was no sign of life.	10
6	314	In all my life I could not remember ever having been struck.	10
7	143	Already I had learned, for the first time in my life, to stand straight, truly straight.	10
7	349	Knowing no English themselves, they had no choice but to teach me a living language, in life, as practical and concrete as a tool, as expressive and beautiful as flowers and clouds.	10
7	413	For the first time in my life I suddenly understood, kneeling in the grass in a Gorean field, the thundering, devastating realities of social institutions.	10
8	146	"In your dreams," she asked, "what sort of man is it who touches you, who binds you and carries you away, who takes you to his fortress, who forces you to do his bidding?" I recalled how, outside the penthouse, hurrying to the garage, a man had looked at me, and had not looked away, and how, fleeing...	10
8	229	Life, even by Gorean standards, is primitive in the region of the Laurius, and northward, to the great forests, and along the coast, upward to Torvaldsland.	10
8	244	I suddenly became afraid that I might be sold in this river port to spend the rest of my life as the slave of a fisherman or woodsman, cooking and tending his hut.	10
8	334	I gathered that life in the villages must be hard for a young girl.	10
8	495	It was true that I had never felt as healthy in my life as I did then, nor had the air seemed as clear and pure, the sky so blue, the clouds so sharp and white.	10
8	497	Though barefoot, though thonged by the throat, though branded, though clad in a camisk, though a degraded slave, at the mercy of men, I felt, perhaps for the first time in my life, paradoxically, vitally and joyously happy.	10
8	500	And, startlingly, for the first time in my life, I, too, now undeniably, began to find them attractive, deeply and sensuously attractive, even excitingly so.	10
8	576	Interestingly, for the first time in my life, I found that I was not displeased to be a woman.	10
9	451	"A slave!" "Do you beg for your life?" asked Verna.	10
9	453	"Yes, yes!" "Who begs for her life?" asked Verna.	10
9	454	"A slave begs her mistress for her life," I wept.	10
9	525	Was I not a slave? I knew that I could well employ the wiles of a slave girl to make my life pleasant and easy.	10
11	155	Life in the pens, intentionally, is made hard.	10
11	325	There was a time in my life when I would not have understood this, or how it could be.	10
11	326	There was surely a time in my life when I could not have believed this, when I would have found it preposterous, absurd, incomprehensible, false.	10
11	612	She had been a free woman; she was now a female slave, the ease of whose life and whose fortunes would now depend entirely on her capacity to be pleasing to those who might capture or purchase her, those who would own her.	10
11	1028	I would use my intelligence and my beauty to make my life on Gor an easy one.	10
11	1154	I had hope only that, though on this world, I could use my inclinations and training, those of a slave girl, to win myself an easy life.	10
11	1264	I would have an easy life.	10
12	401	I would have a very pleasant life, as a manipulative, kept female.	10
12	415	I wanted to get swiftly to Ar, and to be sold, to be free of them all! I wanted to begin my new and pleasant life.	10
12	705	Targo, a rational man, and a brilliant slaver, had chosen to purchase his own life, and that of his men, and the safety of his gold, by the flight of the slave girls.	10
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...	10
14	689	At his hands I accept my life and my name, declaring myself his to do with as he pleases".	10
15	70	"No! No!" "Your life would then have been quite easy, and pleasant," said Ute.	10
16	223	"Once," she said, "long ago, in the city of Ar, I saw a man, and, in seeing him, for the only time in my life, I was afraid, for I feared he might do to me, if he wished, what Rask of Treve has done to you.	10
16	285	Her bondage adds a particular dimension, a thrilling vividness, an edge, a special reality to her life, one unknown to free women.	10
16	291	Many is the free woman of Earth who languishes in a sexual wilderness, who is bored, who finds her life, her work, her marriage, a drab, repetitious routine of tediums.	10
16	293	She now has a new, thrilling reality, perhaps a secret one, that enflames her, that makes her life worth living.	10
16	390	I wondered if I could have felt so much his, so completely surrendered, if he had not possessed this complete power over my life and body.	10
17	1	Port Kar The past few weeks had been the most happy and beautiful of my life.	10
17	50	The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind.	10
17	67	I told him of my childhood, my girlhood, and my parents, and the pet my mother had poisoned, and of New York, and my world, and my capture, and my life before it had begun, before he had seen me naked in the cell of the Koroban pens.	10
17	117	At such times I could not engage him in tender discourse; rather, I would crawl to him, a needful slave, weeping, and beg him for chains and cords, even the whip; I must know myself uncompromisingly owned; how perdurable and encompassing, how totalistic, is the sexuality of the female slave! It suff...	10
17	198	It was he, now, who held absolute power over my life and body.	10
17	352	No, Rask of Treve would not purchase his life for the price I had agreed to pay, but the decision was not his, but mine, mine, and I loved him, and could not let him die! "Do not stain my honor," he had said.	10

Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	123	How could I not love Talena, the deep, and first love, the first beautiful love of my life? "Do you love her?" asked Samos.	10
3	206	But they had between them the game, its fascination and its beauty, reconciling whatever differences, in dialect, custom or way of life might divide them.	10
9	75	None but the acknowledged leader of the band, whose authority was undisputed, could have so looked upon a prisoner, dispassionately, objectively, serene in her power over his life and body.	10
10	50	"Yes," said Marlenus, "it is to your sex that you owe your life".	10
13	170	Marlenus, I feared, for once in his life, had miscalculated.	10
13	313	But where might they find allies in the forests? Marlenus, it seemed, for once in his life, had miscalculated.	10
14	21	Marlenus, for once in his life, had miscalculated.	10
15	26	Panther girls, whose life is predicated on the hatred of men, are not likely to look leniently on such women.	10
15	938	Her old name had been hers as a free person, publicly registered, legally certified, historically identified with her throughout her life, until her capture by slavers.	10
18	558	I barely escaped with my life".	10
19	407	"I offer you your life, and the lives of your men," I said, "if you depart now, leaving behind all slaves".	10
21	86	He whom in some respects I hated I had risked my life to liberate.	10
22	194	She had saved his life in the stockade, interposing her body and weapon, the crossbow, between him and the maddened, desperate attack of Sarus.	10
22	694	She lives in terror that she might meet one in real life.	10
22	723	No man can be blamed for not wishing to make his life miserable.	10

Book 9. (35 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	106	There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.	10
1	137	Samos of Port Kar had purchased Talena, as a mere slave, from two panther girls, obtaining her with ease in this manner while I had risked my life in the forest.	10
1	161	This suggests that there may be a true answer, for how can there be falsity without truth? One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer.	10
2	54	It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.	10
2	55	It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his ways and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of Priest-Kings.	10
2	111	Incidentally, it is a teaching of the Initiates that only Initiates can obtain eternal life.	10
2	118	It is a consequence, thusly, that no female can obtain eternal life.	10
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...	10
2	122	So simple an adjustment as the promise of eternal life to women who behaved in accordance with their teachings, instructing the young, and so on, might have much effect.	10
2	236	Ivar Forkbeard, in death, if not in life, was making pilgrimage to the temple, that his bones might be anointed at the hands of the High Initiate, would he so graciously deign to do so.	10
2	241	Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings.	10
2	265	I had little doubt but that the High Initiate had long ago seen through his way of life, if he had not at first.	10
2	267	But he had not changed his way of life.	10
2	330	But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.	10
3	200	They looked at him with horror, understanding then what the nature of their life would be.	10
5	211	Life returned to normal aboard the ship.	10
6	388	If the marooned Kurii abided by the weapon and technology laws of Priest-Kings, they, like men, another life form, were permitted to survive.	10
6	448	Yet I admired the audacity of the man of Torvaldsland, though his act, in freeing Chenbar to act against me, had almost cost me my life last year in the northern forests.	10
7	165	It was to me that he owed his life.	10
8	117	I wondered if I had, in my life, seen ever so scornful, so proud, so cold a woman.	10
10	155	A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...	10
10	485	We had not been much pleased at the insolence of the bondmaid with respect to the young thrall; once, we recalled, her taunting of him had almost cost him his life; I had intervened, and he had only been whipped instead; I had little doubt that Wulfstan of Kassau, the thrall, Tarsk, had many scores ...	10
10	603	But here, too, she would find her femaleness, perhaps for the first time in her life, was interestingly and enormously important; here she would find that she was gloriously prized for her femaleness; here she would find men who relished it, and celebrated it, and her.	10
11	11	Evolution, on some distant, perhaps vanished world, had adapted this life form for both diurnal and nocturnal hunting.	10
14	144	I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life.	10
15	54	It was even possible that Priest-Kings, a usually consistent form of life, might permit the Kurii conquest of Gor rather than surrender their accustomed neutrality.	10
15	103	There was no sign of life.	10
15	323	I had not conquered a mountain; the mountain, when I had paid its price, that I might understand the value of the gift, had lifted me to where I might see how insignificant I was and how beautiful and precious was reality and life, and the sun on a bleak, cold land.	10
18	655	The plan had been brilliant, though careless of the value, if any, placed on Kur life.	10
18	667	It seems well equipped by its remote, savage evolution to be a dominant life form.	10
21	79	The Blue Tooth had sought his life.	10
21	99	The Kur, it seemed to me, in virtue of its distant, doubtless harsh evolution, was well fitted to be a dominant form of life.	10
21	152	"You sought my capture, my life.	10
21	167	Claudius, who had been regent for Henrius Sevarius, and had slain his father, and sought the life of the boy, had been slain by a young seaman, a former slave, named Fish, in my house.	10
21	231	You gave, on the coast of Thassa, freedom, and life, to me and my men.	10

Book 10. (31 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	276	Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...	10
1	553	They are permitted to go through life with their eyes half closed, so to speak.	10
1	750	They may be too remotely related a life form.	10
1	776	"They, like men, are an interesting life form," once had said Misk to me.	10
2	48	A nomad boy of fifteen will often have eaten meat no more than a dozen times in his life.	10
2	306	This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or...	10
5	560	I supposed she saw in him her "rich man," who would guarantee her a life in which she might be protected from the labors of the free woman of the Tahari, the pounding of grain with the heavy pestle, the weaving of cloth, the churning of milk in skin bags, the carrying of water, the herding of animal...	10
7	303	"It threatened your life," he said.	10
7	304	"We have saved your life".	10
7	705	"It seems," I said, "that it is twice I owe you my life.	10
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...	10
10	255	"Six days ago," said I, "the soldiers at Nine Wells were in the vicinity of the oasis, hunting for a fugitive, escaped from their prison, who had been sentenced to the pits of Klima for an alleged attempt on the life of Suleiman Pasha".	10
11	7	He would have defended the small animals with his life.	10
11	50	A storm, of which one is unaware, perhaps pasangs away, can fill such a bed with a sudden flow of water, washing away one's camp and endangering life".	10
13	282	"I love you!" She had risked her life to return to Hassan.	10
15	45	Salt, of course, like water, is essential to life.	10
16	42	I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life.	10
17	32	How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe...	10
17	276	The fish leaped again from the water and I had the dagger free, plunging it, ripping, into the gill tissue below its jaw, one of the salt-adaptations of marine life in the pit.	10
18	1	I Retrieve a Bit of Silk; We Enter the Desert "What would you have for saving my life?" asked T'Zshal.	10
18	15	"You saved my life," said T'Zshal.	10
18	35	"I saved your life!" I cried.	10
18	123	"You saved the life of T'Zshal," said the man.	10
21	201	What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life.	10
21	248	His desiccated tissues, I did not think, would much longer support life.	10
24	60	Indeed, the entire life of the slave, physically, mentally, emotionally, is imbued with the reality, beauty, joy, sensitivity, and vulnerability of her condition.	10
24	67	She is now, for the first time in her life, free to accept and embrace her deepest and truest identity, her ancient selected-for biological identity, as old as the raid, the hunt in the forest, the cave and leather thongs, the decree of nature, the fruit of evolution's wisdom, that of the lover, cap...	10
24	310	Soon your life will be worth little among the agents of Priest-Kings".	10
24	498	"Yes," she said, eagerly, "it just slipped out, inadvertently, accidentally!" "I think," I said, "you have seldom in your entire life spoken so honestly, Slave Girl".	10
25	308	"Are you thinking, Hassan," I asked, "what I am? That there might be one hope for her life?" "Perhaps," grinned Hassan.	10
26	1151	"For the first time in my life," she said, "today, and now, I know that I am a slave girl, only a slave girl.	10

Book 11. (48 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	109	Never in my life had I breathed such air.	10
2	59	I stood straighter than I had ever stood in my life.	10
2	308	Of course I had been terrified, but I felt, in my deepest heart, that I had not said what I had said merely to try and save my life.	10
2	309	Of course I had been desperate to save my life.	10
2	312	That I had been terrified, and desperate to buy my life at any cost, had been the occasion, and an adequate justification, of my utterance, doubtless, but this terror could not explain the wild, uncontrollable acknowledgment, the shattering of inhibitions which I had felt, the torrential rapture, th...	10
2	322	Never before in my life had I been so erotically charged, so aroused, as when I had begged those mighty men to enslave me.	10
2	355	They were two, and he one! He should flee! He should run for his life! I knelt, chained.	10
2	604	For the first time in my life I felt I understood what might be the meaning of the expression 'male,' and, as I lay before him, too, dimly, it frightening me, what might be the meaning of the expression 'female.	10
2	756	Too, it would have been pointless to have questioned me so closely; too, why, if I had been brought to this world for an obvious purpose of men, say, for my beauty, had the men prepared, in their anger, to end my life? Surely it must have been obvious to them that I was eager to do anything they wan...	10
2	779	I had not dreamed such men could exist! I had never felt so feminine, so stirred, so alive and real, as in their presence! For the first time in my life I was pleased to be a woman.	10
2	892	You saved my life yesterday.	10
2	1114	In his presence, aside from my fear and vulnerability, I felt, for the first time in my life, certain deep, and overwhelming and indescribable sensations.	10
2	1245	He had not even lashed me to within an inch of my life.	10
4	44	On Earth it then seemed to me that I had been a true slave; and that, on this world, though I wore a brand, I was for the first time in my life truly free.	10
4	45	On Earth invisible chains had kept me cruelly apart from myself and my feelings; conditionings and derisions had put walls between me and my heart and emotions; I had been tight, the miserable victim of bonds of my own acceptance; now, for the first time in my life, though I might wear chains, in my...	10
4	377	The Bina, or Slave Beads, had meant more to them than my life.	10
4	500	It was the second time in my life I had felt a switch.	10
4	679	For the first time in my life, I, a slave, felt free to be a woman.	10
4	1179	Now, for the first time in my life, in my joy and self-acceptance as a female slave, I wanted to give.	10
5	431	It can be worth the life of one to do so.	10
5	832	The quality of a slave girl's life is commonly a direct function of her pleasingness to her master.	10
7	249	It was, I conjectured, the first time in her life she had ever been struck.	10
7	646	As soon as I had understood that the quality of my life on Gor, given my brand, would depend on my ability to please men I had begged Eta to give me instruction.	10
7	945	Perhaps this was only a slave girl's alertness to the master, an alertness natural enough in a girl who is owned by a man, whose well-being and very life may depend on how well she pleases him; I do not know; that is an alertness which any rational girl strives to cultivate; but I wondered if it mig...	10
8	151	Snow sleen, however, remain white-pelted throughout their life.	10
8	155	If they can be taken within the first two months of their life, which seems to be a critical period, before they have tasted blood and meat in the wild, and made their own kills, there is apparently a reasonably good chance that they can be domesticated; otherwise, generally not.	10
8	174	Sleen, interestingly, often pair for life.	10
9	234	Then I had been brought to Gor, and had discovered that I was beautiful, truly beautiful, and that such as I might well belong to glorious, male beasts who would relish and treasure us, and master us! Was I a pleasure slave? Could I be a pleasure slave? I had been an excellent student at an elite gi...	10
9	796	"Present yourself to him well, you little slut," warned Melina, "or I will switch you to within an inch of your life".	10
9	1087	The same attention, of course, which the Gorean bestows upon his own life and world, is naturally bestowed upon his slave girls.	10
9	1567	What Bran Loort and his fellows had done exceeded the normal rights of custom, the leniencies and tacit permissions of a peasant community; commonly the codes are invisible; they exist not to control human life, but to make it possible.	10
9	1885	Once I saved his life.	10
9	1891	"He now, has, too, saved my life," said Thurnus.	10
9	2111	It is a common and familiar part of their life.	10
9	2143	What is it to be owned, to be mastered? Life, truly lived, becomes a thousand times more exciting, more meaningful, to her.	10
9	2281	This was the first time in her life, I suspected, that she had felt the uncompromising, unbridled lust that may be vented on the helpless body of a female slave.	10
12	217	But such things are not part of the life of the slave girl.	10
14	427	"I shall remember all my life," she said, "the night I was slave to Thandar of Ti".	10
15	394	"Then," she said, leaning back in the sunken bath, luxuriating in the warm, foamy water, "you will begin your life as my serving slave, Judy".	10
18	14	When I had come to the Chatka and Curla I, and Narla, too, had been dipped and scrubbed, to clear us of ship lice and the residues of filth accumulated from the voyage and our consequent captivity; the dip was of water saturated with chemicals toxic to ship lice; we did not open our eyes or mouth wh...	10
20	132	No longer was my life empty.	10
22	361	In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a...	10
22	362	Nature rejected is life denied.	10
23	65	Life then to me was but stones and ashes.	10
24	81	The major transformation in the girl of course goes far beyond the trivialities and mechanics, the externals, so to speak, of such matters as grooming, adornment, training and such, however lovely and important they may be; it is the internal transformation which is most important, and that is wroug...	10
26	816	"Is there no hope for my life?" she asked.	10
27	358	This is as it should be, and, shortly after coming to Gor, this is brought home to her, clearly; on Gor she finds herself restored to the antique rights of her biological heritage, and meaning; she learns complementarity; she learns about dominance and submission, and that she is not dominant; at la...	10
27	359	How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ...	10

Book 12. (32 results) Beasts of Gor

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2	207	Perhaps even her life.	10
2	224	Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a...	10
2	287	For the first time in your life, you will now be good for something".	10
2	608	But their life, at best, was a precarious one.	10
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.	10
3	474	It must be clearly understood that the life of the slave girl, of course, can often be far from joyful.	10
3	924	The life one shares with a slave is, of course, multidimensional.	10
3	1190	"They have one chance for life," he said, "to obey with total perfection".	10
3	1191	"But," I asked, "is that not every slave girl's one chance for life?" "True," he said.	10
6	94	"I should have you lashed to within an inch of your life, Slave Girl," I had told her.	10
6	352	"My life will depend on it?" she asked.	10
6	942	She depended on him totally for her life, that he would hold her.	10
8	212	It did not seem to me, objectively, that it was unlikely they would eventually be supplanted in the system by a fiercer, more territorial, more aggressive form of life.	10
8	213	Kurii, it seemed to me, were well fitted to become the dominant life form in the system.	10
9	46	"It is you, perhaps," said I, "whose life she thusly prolongs".	10
12	604	"No," I said, "but note, interestingly, in spite of the fact that you perhaps never in your life on Earth encountered such manhood, yet you were capable of understanding and conceiving it, and longing for its manifestation".	10
12	653	"A civilization that makes room for life?" I asked.	10
15	110	Since the coming of Poalu to the tent life had become hard for them.	10
15	563	For the first time in my life I am free to obey, to love and be pleasing".	10
20	189	Life is not always pleasant for them".	10
21	129	"That does not agree with the principles you have been taught, principles developed to facilitate a certain sort of society, or perhaps even with your immediate intuitions on the matter, a function of your conditioning to accept these principles, but it stands up to the test of life experiences".	10
21	341	Now, for the first time in my life, they seem to me of profound importance and interest.	10
21	399	Every modality of her life contributes to her heat, her legal and social status, her beauty, her clothing, if permitted such, her postures and movements, her collar, everything.	10
22	347	"Who knows what life is all about?" asked Imnak.	10
23	133	"You have saved my life, all of you," said Ram.	10
24	286	Slavery is not a mere condition; it is a kind of life.	10
29	61	The recognition and comprehension of a detail, sometimes subtle, can sometimes make a difference between life and death.	10
32	4	"That was our star," he said, "a yellow, medium-sized, slow-rotating star with a planetary system, one small enough to have sufficient longevity to nourish life, one large enough to have a suitable habitable zone".	10
32	19	"Life began its climb anew," I said.	10
32	173	"What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ...	10
35	76	I knew I had at least one ally within, Imnak, who would risk his life to protect me.	10
38	34	Who could ask more from life than the opportunity to stand for a time on the slope of the mountain and sing?" The harness on the snow sleen was secure.	10

Book 13. (16 results) Explorers of Gor

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1	586	In this case I thought it unlikely, given the latitude and style of life of Lydius.	10
3	111	His life may depend on it.	10
4	137	"I have never seen him before in my life!" "I see," said the praetor.	10
4	162	"I have never seen her before in my life," he said.	10
6	381	If she had not been, she might have been whipped to within an inch of her life.	10
7	95	It is a mad and hopeless venture, costly in money and wasteful in human life".	10
13	487	"It was the most incredible experience of my life".	10
13	549	"In the little time you permitted me to sleep," she said, "I never slept better in my life".	10
13	806	Her life, in the past few weeks, had not been easy.	10
14	642	"Never, never did I think I would admit that in my life," she said.	10
15	333	"And Schendi fights for her life".	10
16	165	"I have been a fraud and charlatan all my life," said Ayari.	10
24	173	It had been drawn to the area probably by the smell of blood in the water, or by following other forms of marine life, most likely the bint or blue grunt, who would have been attracted by the same stimulus.	10
24	242	"The voice of a helpless female slave," cried Tende, "who begs her master to spare her life!" "You are pretending to be a slave," said Kisu.	10
29	10	Perhaps she did not relish being dependent on men, and their protection, for her very life, but she was, and she knew it.	10
29	166	"You are merely training an animal to know her station in life".	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	133	The life of a slave girl, of course, is understood, too, as a life of love.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	883	The more intelligent woman, more in tune with her nature and needs, and who is inclined to have a rich inner life, has in her fantasies and dreams enacted realities upon herself whose roots lie in the most secret recesses of her subconscious mind, in the dispositional latencies of her most secret he...	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	118	It is a central phenomenon in their life, and much of their life revolves around it.	10
2	87	In her case there is a cultural continuity between her former life and her present life, and her background and that of her master.	10
28	275	This is not to say that there is nothing to choose from amongst life worlds; it is only to say that we do not all share the same life world.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	414	You have now entered a new modality of life altogether, one in which rigidities and inhibitions are no longer permitted you, a form of life in which, in many ways, you are strictly and uncompromisingly controlled, but one in which, in other ways, your deepest desires and needs need no longer be rest...	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	189	I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live thenceforth so...	10
27	131	Your life will now be a sexual one, a life in which your femaleness, for the first time, will be of undeniable and paramount importance, a life in which it will be overwhelmingly central.	10
13	181	He was preparing her, in a small way, not for what would be her role in her new life, but for what in her new life would be her total and uncompromising actuality.	10
27	138	"The life of a female slave," he said, "is a life wholly given over to love.	10
27	141	It is a total way of life, a total life.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	397	I had lured many of them, but now I danced before them, to please them, begging for my life, danced before them helplessly, at their mercy, submitted and dependent on their favor, for my very life, as much as though I might be their own slave.	10
29	1159	Too, he had used it to save the life of his beloved friend, Mirus, though in doing the deed he must have understood, opening himself to the blade of his enemy as he had, that he had made his own life forfeit.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	481	What manner of place was this? How could it be that my hands were tied behind my back, how could it be that I could not straighten up, that my head was held down, how could it be that there was a collar on my neck! How far away were the malls! But, yet, too, how vanished here were the confusions, th...	10

Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	271	"Doubtless, as an informed, intelligent person," said the young man, "you are aware of the existence of many worlds, and the overwhelming statistical probability that many of these, indeed, given the numbers involved, millions of them, are suitable for life as we know it, and that, further, given th...	10
30	65	Perhaps it would be more accurate to speak not so much of a sex life, which suggests that sex is only an aspect or part of her life, as a life of sexuality.	10
4	274	"But consider the possibility of alien life forms and exotic, alternative technologies, life forms of incredible intelligence, say, far beyond that of the human, with, at their disposal, enormous powers, the power even to influence, and manipulate, gravity.	10
17	1203	One might as well ask gentleness, tenderness, sensitivity of beasts, of leopards and lions, of alien, aggressive, different, mighty life forms, life forms, she thought, compared to which we are insignificant, even negligible, valued only for casual utilities.	10
18	378	The slave's life is a controlled life.	10
18	841	Perhaps that would add some interest to her life, some spice to her life, the spice of the collar, of chains and the whip.	10
27	1326	And so it had been his intention to inflict upon her what he supposed would be the most miserable of lives for a human female, and particularly for one such as she, a life of unutterable terror, misery, lamentation, humiliation, and shame, the life of a female slave.	10
30	62	The sex life of the female slave is a sex life so rich and overwhelming, and transforming, that they could scarcely have dreamed of it on Earth.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	10	One life form, for example, will exude a waste product, its poison, into the atmosphere which is, interestingly, necessary for the life of a different life form, and that life form, in turn, expels into the atmosphere another waste product, poisonous to itself, yet benign, even necessary, to, say, t...	10
80	139	Kurii certainly recognize a distinction between, say, a rock and a sleen, but our science tends to think less of life and nonlife, as of levels, or strata, of energy, of activity, or, as we think of it, life.	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	264	For example, what are the effects of one modality of life as opposed to another? Suppose one way of life reduces vitality, produces unhappiness, boredom, even misery, and anomie, a sense of meaninglessness, and another modality of life increases vitality, enhances life, produces happiness, charges o...	10
7	358	The life of the slave, on the other hand, is essentially a sexual life; sexuality irradiates her entire existence; it does not begin and end with a caress; in the collar she knows she is essentially a sexual creature, a slave, at the master's bidding, and this knowledge imbues her entire life with a...	10
2	144	Does it fulfill her? Does it make her happy? Has her life been a good life? Let us hope so.	10
5	145	But the shield of Priest-Kings was concerned not only to protect their own world from the potential dangers of an eventually advanced and technologically armed humanity, mostly, originally, brought over millennia to Gor in Voyages of Acquisition for its biological interest, as were many other forms ...	10
9	314	A culture did seem to have its own dynamics, its own life, a life, a biography, to which the welfare or happiness of its components might be only indirectly related, if at all.	10
16	78	I suppose, to many, certain things might seem dreadful, the blast of the war horn, the thunder of tarn drums, the soaring descent to the attack, the scream of the tarn, the music of the bowstring, blood's lyre, with its song of death, but, too, to some, there is little which so speaks of life as the...	10
17	23	Once collared her life has changed; once collared, her old life is superseded, even obliterated; it is beyond recall.	10
22	476	I sensed this was one of the most thrilling, disturbing moments in his life, and I sensed that it was one of the most meaningful, and thrilling, moments in her life.	10
40	104	While polishing boots how can she forget the sound of the chains, which were fastened to her shackles, the feel of the slave bracelets or thongs which fastened her hands behind her back, or to a ring over and behind her head, her writhing in bonds? The life of the slave girl is a whole and total lif...	10

Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	487	Cabot's interposition, at the risk of his own life, had won at best a few moments more of life for those he had sought to protect.	10
13	34	The mystery of the parsit was solved, of course, as this wilderness of efflorescent plant life in the sea, floating like a vast park of life, drew myriads of small creatures, and these would draw the parsit, and the parsit would draw the shark, the grunt, and the unusual tharlarion.	10
23	23	Who will deny to the tiny ost the shield and threat of its venom, who convince the tarsk boar to put aside his short, curved tusks? How will the unarmed larl defend his territory, or life; how would the unarmed sleen defend its burrow, its brood, its life? Who most desires you to be disarmed? He who...	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	60	To be sure, the very condition of bondage itself, aside from questions of restraint, with its signals, rituals, garmentures, behaviors, accouterments, expectations, and such, is richly and profoundly sexual; it is a way of life, a richly sexual way of life, and, given the radical sexual dimorphism o...	10
10	150	It was a form of life, a fearful form of life, with which I was hitherto unacquainted.	10
16	219	I doubted that he recognized them as a form of rational life, of fearfully rational life.	10
41	11	Behind how many gleaming veils, emblazoned with rhetorical embroideries, lurk secret, unbespoken realities? Too, societal life, like organic life, I supposed, had its inertias and habits, and balances, emerging over generations, sustained over time, vindicated in practice.	10
52	253	One might risk one's life or die for a free woman because she is free, or because a Home Stone is shared, or because it is expected, or because it is thought to be a duty, or a matter of honor, but why might one risk one's life for, or die for, a slave? What could be the reason? She is no more than ...	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
52	127	"Master has risked his life to save the life of a slave," I gasped.	10

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	36	Indeed, the life of a slave female is a life profoundly imbued with sex, a life of profound and radical sexuality.	10
49	80	When one is unfamiliar with a life form, or disinterested in a life form, one is unlikely to be particularly discriminating where individuals of that life form are concerned.	10
60	370	"What will you accept, in lieu of my life, that your head be spared?" "I return your life," said Haruki.	10

Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl...	10
21	12	I had now realized, for the first time, perhaps belatedly, certainly foolishly, that intelligence, rationality, a capacity to calculate and plan, to pursue far goals, might not be limited to my species, but that the dark selections of evolution, in their impersonal, blind processes, without heart, m...	10
34	112	Suppose, rather, it was the world of a considerably different form of life, a mysterious, powerful form of life, about which we know little, that within its caves and dens, so to speak, quiescent until aroused, armed and wary, lurked beasts between whose paws worlds might be crushed".	10
34	186	"So a plan was formed," he said, "to produce a form of life to bridge that chasm of mistrust and terror, to produce a form of life more acceptable to humans, one that might enlist the aid of thousands of humans, suitably armed, to rise against and overthrow Priest-Kings, thus unwittingly to do the w...	10
54	70	You are not life gone wrong, but life born anew".	10
61	262	Kurii, a life form that tends to be large, agile, swift, fierce, and powerful, tend to be contemptuous of humans, which they commonly regard as an inferior life form.	10
61	685	"Friends," he called, "humans, astute and wise, skilled and loyal, beloved allies, you did note how I intervened to save the life of your lord, the great Decius Albus, how I, at great personal risk, thrust him aside, away from the line of a quarrel's flight, just as he was about, boldly, at risk to ...	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	289	The life of the female slave is a life of vitality and awareness, an awakened life, a sentient life, a sensuous life, a so-much-alive life! To be sure, clad as we were, when clad, it is easier to be aware of such things.	10
40	312	How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w...	10
41	158	Yet how important is the master! So much depended on the master! Did it matter, really, if the master was a good master, whether he was of Ar or Brundisium, or far Turia or even Port Kar? Did it matter, really, whether he was of Cos or Tyros, or of the mainland? I knew that docilities and submission...	10