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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	25	In his way, he linked me, this moment, and himself with generations of men who had pondered on the world and its meaning.	10
10	189	"What is the meaning of that?" "Surely you are familiar with a slave whip?" I asked, picking it up and, with amusement, slapping it once or twice in my palm.	10
10	209	And I puzzled as to the meaning of his remark.	10
19	50	"What is the meaning of this!" cried a strident voice, that of Pa-Kur.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	130	Occasionally the Gorean, like his brothers in our world, perhaps even more frequently, learns the meaning of love.	10
6	201	The meaning of the action was not lost on the warriors.	10
7	106	She looked at him angrily, sensing his meaning.	10
11	253	"So," she said to me, both hands clenched on the butt of the whip, "you would have me before you on the scarlet rug bound with yellow cords, would you?" I did not understand her meaning.	10

Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	108	I now understood the meaning of the numeral on the girl's collar.	10
5	244	"Teach me the meaning of the collar".	10
5	279	"I see," I said, "that I must teach you the meaning of your collar".	10
9	261	Had I the time, had I not more urgent business, I might have punished her myself, teaching her without mercy what could be the meaning of her collar, using her as objectively and ruthlessly as she deserved, brutally administering the discipline of a Gorean master to a treacherous slave girl.	10
10	30	Similarly in the language of the Priest-Kings, the seventy-three "phonemes" or basic scents are used to form the meaning units of the language, and a single morpheme of Priest-Kings may consist of a complex set of odors.	10
17	25	I wondered if Sarm had much idea of the meaning of the expression "friend" or if it were merely used because he calculated that it would produce a favorable impression on me.	10
18	3	No one to whom I spoke, principally Muls, would explain the meaning of this to me.	10
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.	10
35	30	My heart leaped! "Yes," he said, "the expression is now ours as well as yours and you and those like you have taught us its meaning".	10

Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	409	"That in my arms you would learn the meaning of a slave collar, that you would learn the meaning of being a woman".	10
2	174	The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...	10
5	33	In his simple statement I then understood the meaning of her condition.	10
5	45	Another frequently heard expression is Sa-Fora, a compound word, meaning, rather literally, Chain Daughter, or Daughter of the Chain.	10
6	2	Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...	10
9	449	I wondered if Kamras knew the meaning of the word which he had dared to address to one who wore the Courage Scar of the Wagon Peoples.	10
12	384	Almost without meaning to, I noticed, over to one side, a hooded member of the Clan of Torturers.	10
13	94	She knew, as well as we, that she had showed herself—that her blood had leaped within her and its memory must now mock the hysteria of her denial—that she had acknowledged to us and to herself, perhaps for the first time, the incontrovertible splendor of her beauty and its meaning.	10
15	23	"I do not understand your meaning," I said.	10
16	175	But know, Tarl Cabot, that I am a merchant and understand men and the meaning of gold—I no more object to Ha-Keel dealing with Tuchuks than I would to the fact that water freezes and fire burns—and that no one ever leaves the Yellow Pool of Turia alive".	10
22	48	Naturally I inquired of Harold, shortly after entering, the meaning of the guards' salutation.	10
25	164	I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...	10
25	352	"I am not sure," she said, "that I understand the meaning of that".	10
25	559	"I will teach you that I well know the meaning of my collar, Master," she said.	10
25	613	"I will teach you the meaning of a collar, Tarl Cabot," she said.	10
25	625	I recalled she had told me that she would teach me well the meaning of a collar.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	4	It is an old word in Gorean, Ko-ro-ba, meaning a village market, though few considered its archaic meaning.	10
14	139	I was not clear as to the meaning of the remark of Cernus.	10
16	265	"What is the meaning of this?" I asked.	10
17	311	"What is the meaning of this?" he cried.	10
20	331	"What is the meaning of this?" he inquired.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	108	The cloth was the color of blood; I was in little doubt as to its meaning.	10
8	114	Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import.	10
8	802	"Or," I said, "take you and show you well the meaning of a collar!" "Yes," she smiled, "or that".	10
18	662	It is such nothings, I thought, that are our manhood and our meaning.	10

Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	Let others find what meaning they can in this narrative.	10
7	62	I later learned that its meaning was "Buy me, Master".	10
8	530	I understood the meaning of binding leather, for a woman such as I, and I rejoiced in it.	10
10	344	"On this world," he said, "its meaning is quite clear, that you are a slave.	10
10	345	And what you may not understand, my dear, is that its meaning is quite clear on Earth, as well, for those capable of understanding it.	10
12	635	Such a perimeter has little meaning when the enemy can strike from above.	10
15	511	"I will well teach her the meaning of slavery in the northern forests!" cried Verna.	10
15	939	I could no longer even look on a slave whip without a feeling of terror, for I understood now the pain of its meaning, and what it might do to me.	10
15	1126	I now well understood the meaning of such things on Gor.	10
16	105	My throat had been encircled with slave steel, and I had been taught its meaning.	10
16	243	No slave who has been familiarized with the meaning of her collar would dare to do so.	10
16	294	She now has meaning, and worth, if only that of a slave.	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	262	It was not strange that the proud, intelligent women of the forest, and elsewhere, chose war with men, rather than admit the meaning of his strength and swiftness, the meaning of their own weakness and beauty.	10
6	998	She had, however, standing there, half concealed in the darkness, begun to sense its meaning.	10
9	215	"Yes," smiled Verna, "in the forests we have well taught her the meaning of slavery".	10
14	271	Her beauty is she, and its meaning, from the turn of an ankle to the delicacy of her deft, sweet fingers, from the turn of a calf to her belly and the beauties of her breasts, to those of her shoulders and throat and the marvelousness of her head and hair, is a need.	10
22	495	Hura and Mira were lovely souvenirs of the northern forests, fitting mementos for the great Ubar; they were tokens of his victories, reminders of his success; their captive bodies would be found by him doubtless, when he looked upon them, rich in meaning as well as in pleasure.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	43	We now understood the meaning of the Kur we had seen on Black Sleen, long ago, who had accompanied Thorgard of Scagnar into his holding.	10
16	208	"I think," I said, "I begin to understand the meaning of a man who lived more than a thousand winters ago.	10
17	48	These were the men without meaning, so full and so empty, so crowded, so desolate, so busy, so needlessly occupied.	10
17	141	I do not fully understand the meaning of this expression.	10
21	118	To me, too, it was rich with meaning.	10
21	140	She understood my meaning.	10

Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	199	She scarcely understands, now, the meaning of her collar".	10
1	575	"Yet, there must be a meaning, a pattern".	10
1	636	On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood.	10
1	764	Yet, in spite of their different evolutionary background and physiology, they had learned the meaning of the word 'friend'; too, I knew, they understood, if only in their own way, love.	10
13	199	"I have been traveling with this fellow," he said, "a clumsy, but well-meaning oaf, a boorish date merchant, Hakim of Tor, not overly bright, but good-hearted.	10
16	173	I then understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of food in the pit.	10
18	114	"You have well taught us, T'Zshal," said I, "the lack of water and the meaning of the sun".	10
21	36	I did not understand his meaning.	10
21	281	I did not understand his meaning.	10
21	285	I then understood, in horror, suddenly, the meaning of his mission.	10
26	410	Too, in this ceremonial or symbolic posture, fraught with meaning, a woman is under no delusion as to how she stands with respect to men.	10

Book 11. (19 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	657	In time, after scouting the terrain of the rock, perhaps searching for clues as to my meaning or identity, the tall man in scarlet returned to face me.	10
2	918	Never before had I so clearly, and profoundly, understood the meaning of those words.	10
3	602	Then, overwhelmingly, irresistibly, like a cry of anguish, it welled up within me; I could no longer ignore, suppress or repudiate it; no longer could I, like a foolish girl of Earth, deny and flee my reality; the comprehension, insistent and explosive, overpoweringly, erupted within me; I was naked...	10
4	105	Well had he taught me the meaning of my brand! I so loved him! He gestured me to my feet.	10
4	618	The meaning of our existence, as I had gathered, was to please and serve men.	10
4	754	I knew little then of the world on which I found myself, or of the meaning of the brand on my thigh.	10
4	1009	I could not understand the precise meaning of the words addressed to me, but their import, as my heart sank, was clear.	10
9	233	But surely I who had been Judy Thornton could not be a pleasure slave! But was I a pleasure slave? But if so, even then, surely I could not admit that I was so inconsequential and low a thing as that, a pleasure slave! But even on Earth I had occasionally looked upon my body in the mirror and wonder...	10
9	1019	It is difficult to make clear to a non-Gorean the significance of the Home Stone, for the non-Gorean has never had a Home Stone, and thus cannot understand its meaning, its reality.	10
12	695	It had not been the pain which had made her cry out so miserably but its meaning.	10
13	65	"What is the meaning of the stabilization serums?" I had asked Sucha.	10
19	148	"And even if its meaning could be understood, it would be too late for the enemy to act.	10
22	364	The female slave is true to her deepest nature; she is exquisitely and vulnerably feminine; she is the most feminine of women; her purpose, destiny and meaning is love; she exists for love.	10
22	445	What is most important, of course, is the meaning of the collar, not its material or whether or not it is locked.	10
25	212	"What is the meaning?" asked Bosk of Port Kar.	10
26	14	Too, I relished its freedom, and its attractiveness, and its meaning.	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
29	105	I well understood the meaning of this.	10

Book 12. (16 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	105	Accordingly, what might seem brutal or quick to a man can be taken by a woman in the dimensions of her sentience as irrefutable evidence of his domination of her, her being owned by him, which thrills her to the core for it touches the ancient biological meaning of her womanhood.	10
2	21	I did not press him to elucidate his meaning.	10
2	52	"And what is the meaning of this?" she demanded, pulling at a plain ring of iron which had been hammered about her throat.	10
2	365	Regardless of what the truth should be in these matters, whether it be that man is intrinsically a mechanism of chemicals, or, more than this, a conscious, living animal whose pain and meaning, and defiance, emergent, must transcend the interactions of carbon and oxygen, the exchange of gases, the o...	10
2	473	"The meaning of history," I said, "lies not in the future.	10
2	475	Great deeds are the meaning of history.	10
6	496	Gorean girls, however, who are aware of the cultural implications of their collar, and its meaning, usually spend little time, once it is helplessly locked on their throats, in fighting their womanhood.	10
11	551	"Do you know the meaning of your words, foolish girl?" I asked.	10
11	593	I then threw her to her back in the snow, that I might begin to teach her the meaning of her collar.	10
12	292	The names of the red hunters, incidentally, have meaning, but, generally, I content myself with reporting the name in their own language.	10
24	409	"Perhaps you now begin to understand a bit more of the meaning of what you are—a beautiful slave".	10
24	477	The truly kind master, I think, is he who treats the girl in such a way that she is forced to fulfill her needs in their radical depth and diversity; he gives her no choice but to be a woman, in the full meaning of this word, which is the only thing that can truly, ultimately, make her happy.	10
27	213	"Then what is its meaning?" asked Poalu.	10
27	214	"Its meaning, I think," said Imnak, "is that it is too late to turn back".	10
30	91	When one has killed one's friend one is then likely to better understand the meaning of the black.	10
36	191	"But do you understand the meaning of it?" I asked Arlene.	10

Book 13. (20 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	79	In that sense, I suppose, one might think of Schendi, though it has no real meaning of its own, as having an etiological relationship to a word meaning 'Victory'.	10
1	63	She had been kept in his own house, and taught the meaning of her collar, fully.	10
1	405	"I do not understand what the meaning of all this is, Samos," I told him.	10
2	216	It is not a bad place for a girl to begin to learn something of the meaning of her collar.	10
4	816	The girl is commonly shown the iron, that she may understand its might, its heat and meaning.	10
6	77	The word Schendi, as nearly as I can determine, has no obvious, direct meaning in itself.	10
6	658	And yet on Gor women who are put in collars do not long remain ignorant of their own beauty and its meaning.	10
8	123	Certain figures are formed with the hands and beads which have symbolic meaning, much of which was lost upon me, as I was not familiar with the conventions involved.	10
13	660	"You now begin to understand, do you not," I asked, "something of the meaning of your collar?" "Yes, Master," she said.	10
18	52	The meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment.	10
24	93	"Begone!" I do not think they understood my words but my meaning was clear.	10
27	202	For the first time then they begin to have some sense of the profound and explosive meaning of their beauty, biologically, socially, sexually, and its striking desirability, its latent value, things scarcely considered before.	10
32	616	It was he who had explained to me the meaning of the carving of the kneeling girl, who had told me not to replace my sunglasses, he whom I had disobeyed.	10
32	1061	"Do you understand the meaning of the tuck closing on the skirt?" I asked.	10
34	1058	It is not just the aesthetic loveliness of the mark, of course, though that in itself incredibly enhances a woman's beauty; it is, of course, even more, its meaning".	10
34	1060	"What is its meaning?" I asked.	10
44	202	The word 'Mamba' in most of the river dialects does not refer to a venomous reptile as might be expected, given its meaning in English, but, interestingly, is applied rather generally to most types of predatory river tharlarion.	10
49	85	"What then is the meaning of the drums?" pressed Ayari.	10
55	18	"What is its meaning?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
57	225	I was the first, months ago, to have taught her something of the meaning of a collar.	10

Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	104	"The expression is a 'signal word,' a word selected for its emotive connotation, not its cognitive meaning.	10
1	1009	I then understood the meaning of the two metallic sounds I had heard earlier, one within each door.	10
2	313	Now he spoke of me as though I had not even, as yet, begun to glimpse the meaning of true manhood.	10
7	452	Her life now has meaning.	10
11	573	The brand's marvelousness, of course, is not simply a function of its aesthetic enhancement of the woman's beauty, adding beauty to her beauty, raising her almost geometrically to a new dimension of loveliness, but was doubtless as much or more a function of its meaning; it marked the loveliness int...	10
12	45	I did not understand the meaning of the dish, or its flaming contents.	10
12	220	"The little sluts know well the meaning of their collars".	10
12	367	Too, once they have learned the meaning of their collar, they are extraordinarily delicious slave girls.	10
14	97	What is the meaning of it?" "I do not know, Mistress," I said.	10
14	99	They seemed joyful and happy! What is the meaning of it?" "I do not know, Mistress," I said.	10
16	213	"What is the meaning of this?" she asked, horrified.	10
22	135	"What is the meaning of this?" cried the Lady Melpomene.	10
24	116	Unlike the free woman, mildly dissatisfied, perhaps even confused, and certainly frustrated, and unfulfilled, they will be under no misapprehensions as to what has occurred and its meaning.	10
25	42	He well knew the meaning of Gorean steel.	10
27	86	"Feel it on your body," I told her, "its texture, its meaning, how it touches you".	10

Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10
3	296	I did not understand the meaning of his remark.	10
9	65	It teaches a male, in the thunderous currency of intellect and emotion, what is the true meaning of manhood.	10
9	133	And yet I knew that on Earth such women commonly languished, their beauty denied its meaning and fulfillment, their beauty not summoned forth, not commanded forth, for the pleasure, the sport and service of strong men.	10
9	172	They, if none others, had seen the woman in her, the depth, preciousness, and meaning of her beauty.	10
21	280	With the older slave girl, one who has already learned something of the meaning of her collar, a mere snapping of the fingers or a small, imperious gesture can have a similarly devastating, triggering effect on her sexuality.	10
21	350	Even with girls used to slavery, who have well learned their collars, of course, the chain never loses its meaning.	10
22	115	How zealously earnest she had been to dress in certain ways and behave in certain ways, to deny her beauty and its meaning, how desperately she had tried to live up to ideological strictures foreign to her needs; how pathetically she had dutifully repeated slogans; how sincerely she had tried to bel...	10
24	315	It is men such as Goreans, and not men such as those of Earth, who recognize the meaning of our beauty and simply take us, and make us serve them.	10
24	467	She was naked and bound, mine! I was filled then with emotions so powerful, so primitive and exultant, so ancient, so overwhelming, so mighty and glorious, that I knew then I had caught the scent of the meaning of man, and of woman.	10

Book 16. (12 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	237	They know its meaning.	10
8	435	How beautiful is the collar itself, and yet how insignificant is the beauty of the collar compared to the beauty and profundity of its meaning, that the woman is owned.	10
17	452	"No," I told her, "you are only a leashed slut, a rightless Gorean slave girl, who is soon to learn something of the meaning of her collar".	10
17	492	"I long to be taught its meaning," she said.	10
18	155	Indeed, in that night, I gathered, she had been, for the first time, taught the full meaning of her collar.	10
19	121	She sees the door, a device by means of which she gains access to her dwelling, but can it have the same meaning to her as to one who has been helplessly carried through it, as a slave? Similarly, the free woman passes through that door whenever she wishes.	10
19	442	But, too, psychologically, where could it be more advantageously placed? Where else on the body might it be placed that its security, its effectiveness and its meaning could be more clearly brought home to its lovely captive? The collar also, of course, has other utilities.	10
19	520	"Surely you know the meaning of such a collar on Gor," she said.	10
19	953	Perhaps she is shy, virginal and unmated; she senses the boys she knows are callow and cannot satisfy her; only in her dreams has she awakened to the casual, possessive hands of a master upon her, who will see to it, she knows, that she will, willing or not, well slake his lusts; or perhaps she is o...	10
19	1201	"You know the meaning of a slave collar, don't you?" asked Lola.	10
20	142	"I have been meaning for days to give you a gift, one I have been saving for you".	10
20	309	But the greatest beauty of the chain, like that of the brand and collar, doubtless lies in the realm of the intellect and emotions, in its meaning, and how it makes the girl feel.	10

Book 17. (17 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	47	Still, doubtless, they would also have taught her its meaning, or at least as much of its meaning as could be absorbed by a raw Earth slave in her present stage of training.	10
13	48	She doubtless thus understood its meaning, but did not, presumably, understand it in its full meaning, as what it might mean, fully, to present herself as a Gorean slave girl for the pleasure of a master.	10
13	1051	"Your assertion might be construed as meaning that you had committed some treason against yourself, or, perhaps, as meaning merely that you had revealed, or manifested, yourself.	10
15	138	I did not know the meaning of the notched ear, if it had a meaning, or of the other marks on the animal's flanks.	10
9	80	They, too, at least as yet, would not be able to understand where they were being taken, what was being done to them, not fully, not yet in its full meaning.	10
11	207	Surely they must have some sense on some level, at least, of the nature and meaning of the attitude in which they had been placed.	10
11	219	"You would understand, or sense, at such times," said Ginger, "the meaning of your slightness, your beauty and your needs.	10
13	45	The phrase which she had repeated more than once, "I have been sent to your blankets," for example, had not been spoken as a slave girl in full cognizance of its meaning, humbly making it clear that her nearness to the male was not illicit, and begging him to consider her for his pleasure-use, but r...	10
13	589	"I see," she said, "the unenslaved slave is nothing, but the enslaved slave has a value, and a meaning".	10
13	1457	It takes its very meaning from the fact that it is not yet falarina".	10
14	968	To be sure, the specific meaning intended is usually clear in the context.	10
14	1160	"The specific meaning depends on the context.	10
15	28	"To be sure, the customary meanings are sometimes rearranged to conceal the true meaning.	10
15	197	In Dust Leg, incidentally, the expression has the same meaning.	10
15	236	"Thank you," was the meaning of this sign.	10
17	470	What is of great importance is not the nature of the collar, or such, but what it betokens, its meaning.	10
19	230	"Do not forget its meaning," said Pimples.	10

Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	116	It is difficult to make clear to those who are not intimately acquainted with such things the meaning of the Pte, or Kailiauk, to the red savages.	10
1	120	More to them than meat for the stomach and clothes for the back is the kailiauk to them; too, it is mystery and meaning for them; it is heavy with medicine; it is a danger; it is a sport; it is a challenge; and, at dawn, with a lance or bow in one's hand, and a swift, eager kaiila between one's knee...	10
1	132	One cannot expect identical regularities in meaning and usage to obtain in diverse linguistic communities.	10
1	331	Hers was the collar of a true slave, in the fullness of that meaning, whereas mine, in effect, though identical, functioned almost as a badge of protection.	10
2	94	Her meaning would not have begun to be realized until she was brought to civilization.	10
2	454	"Do you not understand the meaning of the pole?" "No," I said.	10
5	39	"What do you suppose the meaning of that was?" I asked.	10
27	3	I did not know the codes, nor, for the most part, did Cuwignaka, as he had not been trained in the whirling, shifting tactics of his people, but Hci, and others, knew them well, much as Gorean soldiers know the meaning of the movements of standards, the blasts of battle trumpets and the beating of t...	10
34	313	"You understand, do you not," I asked the girl, "the meaning of this?" "Yes," she said.	10
37	103	Each feather, of course, and its arrangement, in such a headdress, can have its individual meaning.	10
44	278	"Speak the words with more meaning," commanded Hci.	10
44	308	"More fervently," said Hci, angrily, "with more meaning!" "No!" said Iwoso.	10
44	737	But this doubtless, at least in part, is connected with the meaning of it.	10
54	321	The expression 'Anptaniya' has a more complex meaning in translation.	10

Book 19. (17 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	74	To be sure, whereas the slave may be expected to kiss the whip of any male, qua male, because of the profound, generic meaning of these things, there is no doubt that the experience of kneeling helplessly before a powerful, exciting, overwhelmingly desirable male, or a beloved male, gives this ritua...	10
1	493	His remark, rightly or wrongly, struck me as being broader and deeper in its meaning than the mere bantering witticism it might have been taken to be.	10
3	277	There was little mistaking its meaning.	10
3	543	Again I did not understand the meaning of "generally".	10
5	170	I did not understand, clearly, the nature of this insult, or the meaning of the reference to a golden cage.	10
6	477	The meaning is perfectly clear, I told myself, irritably.	10
7	86	How keenly must slaves be aware, I thought, of the nature of their attire, and its meaning, of its revelatory brevity and its lack of a nether closure, of how such an apparel publicly brandished their beauty and, dismayingly, denied to their sweetest and most delicious intimacies the least of shield...	10
13	147	The words of Ligurious, that I would be come for, now took on a new and frightful meaning for me.	10
13	159	Too, I did not understand the meaning of a golden cage.	10
30	288	I knew the meaning of this.	10
31	475	The leash, as you might sense, well reminds a woman of her womanhood, and its meaning.	10
34	55	Herein one finds the complementarity of the sexes, the meaning of the radical sexual dimorphism so obviously characterizing the human species, an acknowledgment of the geodesics of the human reality, a beautifully manifested instance of nature's deepest equation, her dominance/submission ratio.	10
34	73	For example, in a slaver's house one of the first things a new girl is taught is to kiss the whip, and therein is conveyed to her a profound message; she therein receives, perhaps for the first time in her life, an inkling into the meaning of her beauty, her slightness, and weakness, and her deepest...	10
36	210	Too, I shall render them to you eagerly, not only from the meaning of my collar but from the bottom of my heart".	10
36	541	What do you think is the meaning of your size and strength, your energy and agility, your dominance? Do you think it is all some alarming, inexplicable, statistical eccentricity? Can you not see the order of nature? Is it so difficult to disclose? Why do you think men make us slaves, and put us in c...	10
36	1366	They are jealous of us! We have our masters, our meaning, and our raptures.	10
36	1551	"I have often wondered what was the meaning of a golden cage, and why I, when thought a Tatrix, was placed in one".	10

Book 20. (16 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	124	"What is the meaning of this?" she demanded.	10
1	160	"What is the meaning of my presence here?" she demanded.	10
1	164	"What is the meaning of my presence here?" repeated the woman, angrily.	10
2	176	It is not difficult, however, aside from such possible historical antecedents, and the popular, superficial interpretations of such a custom, in one time or another, to speculate on the depth meaning of such favors.	10
2	699	And surely the luscious creatures, though no more than animals bearing brands in their lovely hide, are aware of their desirability, their attractiveness, their importance, and meaning to men.	10
3	327	"Yes! Yes!" I did not think it was necessary to remind her that I was not really according her the polite courtesies and gentle dignities appropriate to the pleasures of the free woman, but was, in effect, of my own will, by my own decision, subjecting her to attentions more commonly reserved for th...	10
6	112	No longer now do they aspire to the privileges and prerogatives of the free woman; let her continue to live in her house of inhibition and convention; let her have her frigidities, jealousies and shams; they have found something a thousand times more precious, their meaning, their significance, thei...	10
6	674	These words seemed to have some special meaning for her.	10
9	23	It seemed he did not wish others to see it, or understand its meaning.	10
10	894	It had a special meaning for me.	10
13	212	What then could be the explanation for the attempt on my life in Port Kar, and for the obvious interest of certain parties in Brundisium in me? What, if anything, could be my importance to them? What, too, was the meaning of the messages I had intercepted? They had apparently been intended for certa...	10
16	90	When one understands that, of course, it is easier to understand the saying in its full meaning.	10
16	131	"And what, good sir," demanded Petrucchio, "might be the meaning of this guarded 'I suppose'?" "Why, it, too, is nothing," said Chino, adding, "—I suppose".	10
16	135	"I do not take your meaning, sir," said Petrucchio, warily.	10
16	198	"What is the meaning of this?" said Petrucchio to the women, sternly.	10
16	983	"Are soldiers of Cos within the walls of Brundisium to receive an official sanction to steal from citizens of Ar? Is that the meaning of our alliance?" Belnar put another grape in his mouth.	10

Book 21. (22 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	101	Are you not clear as to what has happened to you? Do you not understand the meaning of the wondrous changes which have transformed you into what you now are, the meaning of your new sensibilities, and feelings, and desires and instincts, of the lovely changes in your body?" "Do not speak to me like ...	10
2	170	Yet I think that perhaps she understands something more of its meaning now than she did a few moments ago.	10
11	201	"I am one well aware of the complexities of coping with grandeur, of the exquisite agonies attendant upon wrestling with nigh ineffable sublimities, with the excruciating intensities of the authentic aesthetic experience, with the travails of poignant significance, with the exhausting consequences o...	10
13	298	For example, she desires to belong, and the fullness of belonging is to be literally owned; she desires to be treasured, and to be a treasure one must be a possession; she desires to be wanted, and there is no mistaking the wanting of her, when she is so wanted that she is forcefully and categorical...	10
16	355	"What can possibly be their meaning?" asked the girl, frightened.	10
16	574	"I would guess then," I said, caressing her, but just for moment, though she nonetheless bucked beneath my hand, which amused me, "that the tie was intended to be an informative, or admonitory one, one from which you were to gather something of the meaning of your reduction in station".	10
16	1108	Its original meaning is apparently "Meeting Place," and its application to a building, or a hall for the meeting of councils, is, it seems, a later development.	10
18	71	They doubtless impress her bondage on her, and its meaning.	10
20	48	In them were fortunes to be sought, and fortunes to be won, and fortunes to be lost; in them there were crowds, and loneliness; in them success trod the same pavements as failure; in their plazas hope jostled with despair, and meaning ate at the same table with meaninglessness.	10
22	218	Others, like the one referred to by the proprietor, encourage the young man to see the female in terms of her most basic and radical meaning, in the terms of her deepest and true nature, that nature which is most biologically fundamental to her, that nature which is that of the inestimable prize, th...	10
23	97	It is all part of the meaning of the day, of the generosity and benevolence of those of Ar, and such".	10
24	119	Well did it confirm the meaning of her collar on her.	10
25	207	But even they have doubtless some sense of its meaning and gather from this act some sense of how they are now viewed, and what, on this remarkable world, they shall soon be.	10
25	278	Its meaning has not yet soaked into her brain, her skin, her belly, even to the tips of her toes".	10
25	318	There was a sense, of course, in which the slave girl is meaningless, the sense in which she is nothing, the sense in which she is a mere property, a rightless object, fittingly to be scorned, to be treated as one pleases, to be made to serve, to be disciplined or whipped, to be kept or cast away, a...	10
25	854	Then, in time, there were none in the cage who had still to learn the meaning of their sex, none who had not now learned that they were slaves, and fully".	10
26	806	You might consider in particular how to explain to them the meaning of the tarsk bit on your belly.	10
26	1175	A great adventure lies before you, filled with life and meaning.	10
27	132	Everything else will take its coloration and meaning from that".	10
27	185	Slave bracelets have a profound meaning for the Gorean woman.	10
27	188	Accordingly they are often used on captive free women, that in their clasp they may begin to ponder their impending fate, and sense in their lovely bellies its meaning, perhaps while the iron is heating.	10
27	192	Earth-girl slaves, too, quickly learn the meaning of such bracelets, which, like the collar and brand, may come to symbolize the possession, the domination, and the raptures, to which they find themselves subject on this world.	10

Book 22. (20 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	23	I had actually begun work on the second garment, some two months ago, but, in touching it to my body, for it was the sort of garment which touches the body directly, with no intervening investiture, I had suddenly, comprehending its meaning and nature, begun to shake with terror and, scarcely knowin...	10
1	120	That had seemed to me interesting at the time, but I thought that now I might more fully understand its meaning.	10
1	122	It was, in its way, a convenience for the male, indeed, even an invitation to his predation; too, similarly, it was, to her, to the so-dressed female, a mnemonic device, and a symbol of her vulnerability, and nature, reminding her of what she was, and her meaning.	10
1	133	Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t...	10
3	15	Thus I had hoped to put it from me, but I knew the thing had happened, that the words had been said, and had had their meaning, that which they had had at the time, and not necessarily that which I might now fervently desire to ascribe to them, and to such a man.	10
3	431	Never before, however, I think, had I been so suddenly and deeply struck with the meaning of this ending position, it following the beauty of the dance, its presentation of the dancer in a posture of submission.	10
3	923	"Let those who come upon it ponder its meaning".	10
3	1011	I wondered what might be the meaning of that, in a natural world.	10
10	118	The meaning of the lessons, however, had been clear.	10
11	200	I had been secretly thrilled, of course, but had scarcely dared, even to myself, to think of it as "belly dance," or, as the French have it, "danse du ventre," a term popular with some, with some perhaps as a euphemism, and with others as a sensuous way of expressing the matter, one with the same ob...	10
11	665	The symbolic meaning of this was clear.	10
11	934	Yes, I thought to myself, what are you doing, Doreen? What has gotten into you? Why are you doing this? Why is your belly so alive? Why are you so excited? Why is your body so hot? Why is it moving like this? You are dancing more like a purchasable slut, a common girl from a market, a girl who has b...	10
11	958	And then, throwing my head back, I danced unabashedly as an acknowledged, aroused slave, much as I had before, taunting them, teasing them, delighting in my power, but then, suddenly, as though I sensed my ultimate helplessness, my ultimate inability to achieve total fulfillment without the wholenes...	10
11	1461	"What is the meaning of that?" "That I have been red-silked, Mistress," I said.	10
13	241	Sometimes I was terrified by the collar on my neck, knowing its meaning, knowing that it, like my brand, marked me slave, knowing how it put me at the mercy of masters, knowing that anything could be done to me.	10
14	46	Too, I had some understanding of the meaning of such devices to Gorean males, and the effects upon them of such things.	10
16	120	"What is the meaning of this!" she cried.	10
16	144	"What is the meaning of this?" she said, naked.	10
17	240	Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me, with the soft...	10
29	109	The meaning of these cords has something to do, apparently, with the history of the polis of Tharna.	10

Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	708	A word, or words, then, as the woman learns, grows, and blossoms, while substantially retaining their original literal, unadorned, or cognitive, meaning, can alter their original emotive meaning.	10
8	832	Too, that she has a name put on her by your power, and that she understands the meaning of this, has a good effect on her.	10
9	87	This may be a particular advantage early in her training, when she may not yet fully understand her new nature and its meaning.	10
9	229	I want it to be the meaning of my existence!" "I see, free woman," I said.	10
14	80	Yes, I thought to myself, you are free, but what is that now but a matter of civic status, the consequence of a trivial, not-yet-officially-rescinded legal technicality? For already you have begun to sense, and learn, the meaning of your beauty, and the truth of your inmost being.	10
15	636	"What is the meaning of this outrage!" demanded Lady Publia, squirming in the ropes.	10
15	775	I did not want her to tremble, or stammer, for example, as she, knowing herself slave, and its meaning, might have had to struggle against an almost overpowering impulse, desire and disposition to fall rightfully to her knees before a free man, address him as "Master," and such.	10
16	514	What small expanse of meaning was this, compared to the magnitudes of space? How tiny the disturbances and exertions of the afternoon must seem, compared to the dissolution and formation of worlds, and the turmoils wrought in the depths of incandescent orbs? Yet there was feeling and consciousness h...	10
19	161	The meaning of history is its own terrain, its own mountains and summits, here and there, wherever they be found.	10
21	406	Too, it is most often at a man's feet, their lips pressed to them, that they first begin to learn the meaning of honor, what it means to a man.	10
21	675	I had not understood earlier what it was to be a woman, or the joys, and meaning, of service and love.	10
21	787	She was a dream in such chains, and their meaning.	10
24	509	In her chains she finds comfort, meaning, identity, and reassurance.	10
24	699	It is another way in which her bondage, in which she finds her fulfillment, her meaning, and identity, is made clear to her.	10

Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	73	She shuddered deliciously in her collar, sensing my meaning.	10
19	914	To be sure, this gesture had not been performed voluntarily by the woman at this time, in a typical reverence for the male, for nature, and for herself, and her meaning, but had been commanded by me.	10
19	1140	In the collar they have found their joy and meaning.	10
19	1441	"The wholeness of it, I think, its meaning, its categoricality, its helplessness, the being owned, the being subject to discipline, the having to obey! I do not know! I do not know!" "Your whole body is becoming excited and vital," I said.	10
19	1654	"What is the meaning of this!" she cried, angrily.	10
29	160	"As a rencer," he said, "you probably do not know the meaning of that sign".	10
31	576	"What is the meaning of this?" she asked.	10
39	266	"Do you understand the meaning of that?" I asked.	10
45	67	Interestingly enough, such labors, too, given their meaning and what was involved in them, were extremely sexually charged for her, rather like the carrying out of a specific task commanded by a master, except on a more regular, pervasive basis.	10
45	119	How shall they see one another, and how shall they be to one another? Is man an inexplicable particle, a magical mote, a surprising tune with no instrument, no history, no meaning, something independent of, and unrelated to, the world that gave him his substance, every atom in his flesh, his birth, ...	10

Book 25. (23 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	29	It becomes, in a sense, the foundation of meaning, and, for Goreans, it is anterior to meaning, and precedes meaning.	10
1	420	They have little meaning beyond being familiar epithets of respect.	10
2	38	It was the sort of garment which free women profess to despise, to find unspeakably shocking, unutterably scandalous, the sort of garment which they profess to regard with horror, the sort of garment which they seem almost ready to faint at the sight of, and yet to Phoebe, and to others like her, in...	10
2	41	Such garments, and their meaning, tend to excite women, inordinately.	10
8	954	In what other arena, and for what lesser stakes, can so much of man be summoned forth, man with his brutality, his cruelty, his mercilessness, his ruthlessness, his terribleness, these ancient virtues, and man with his devotion, his camaraderie, his fellowship, his courage, his discipline, his glory...	10
9	705	In bondage, they find an identity, and a meaning in life, and they learn that they are now such as to fulfill an exciting and important role in a beautiful culture.	10
11	479	"You are curious as to its meaning, and its power?" I asked.	10
12	364	The meaning of the sound would be unmistakable, even to a girl, signifying as it did the eagerness and relish which the mere sight of her inspired in him.	10
12	436	I think she then, better than before, understood her helplessness, and the meaning of the leash, and why I had put it on her.	10
14	298	"You do not know the meaning of that sign?" I asked.	10
14	335	Such a flat, crushed world, without difference and meaning, lies to the ruled and makes liars of the rulers.	10
16	119	"What is the meaning of this?" he said.	10
19	354	Let the girl well understand the meaning of such things.	10
20	401	Or, perhaps it was but the fact that the meaning of her present position was intrusive in her consciousness.	10
20	798	"I understand my sex, and its meaning," she said.	10
22	199	"What is the meaning of your interference?" he snarled.	10
22	200	"What is the meaning of yours?" I inquired, eagerly.	10
22	328	"What is the meaning of this!" exclaimed the woman, hastily raising her veil, holding it about her face.	10
22	554	To serve him and give him pleasure seemed as though it might be her desire, her happiness, her meaning and destiny in life.	10
24	105	Denying a woman clothing, of course, too, makes her acutely aware of her femaleness, and, simultaneously, of its meaning and vulnerability, indeed, whether she is free or slave.	10
26	411	"What is the meaning of this!" she cried, on her belly, turning her head to the right, lifting it from the furs, squirming in the toils of the net.	10
28	25	It exists, which goes beyond, which surpasses, meaning.	10
28	28	And in not meaning, it becomes, of course, the most meaningful of all.	10

Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	264	Do you think that the meaning of an oath is the words it wears? It is rather what it celebrates and intends, the meaning behind the meanings of the words.	10
2	161	What, I wondered, then, could be the meaning of the chains I wore.	10
4	276	We, of course, would not know their meaning.	10
4	648	But, of course, in meaning nothing, it had, in its way, in a sense more grievous and fearful than I had understood at the time, meant everything.	10
7	1052	That is the meaning of the lotions and creams with which they are treated".	10
8	830	And for what purpose had I been brought to this world? What, now, was the meaning of my existence? To be pleasing, and serve men! That was now what I was for.	10
10	168	Too, it might be mentioned that the leash has a profoundly erotic effect upon the female, as its meaning, and its symbolism of her domination, is profoundly arousing to her.	10
10	677	On the other hand, I would suppose that it was primarily designed with free women, prisoners, or new kajirae, in mind, women who might not yet fully understand the meaning of their collars.	10
10	710	Indeed, I was not trying to attract attention to myself! I had just made a little noise, you see, not really meaning it.	10
11	1478	I had found my life and my meaning in bondage.	10
11	1673	If I had truly understood the meaning of ear piercing on this world perhaps I, too, I supposed, might have regarded it with horror, and striven to resist, however meaninglessly, however stupidly, however unavailingly and ineffectually.	10
12	141	Are we, familiar with the rise and fall of empires, who have witnessed the building of the pyramids and walked the streets of Babylon and Nineveh, who have heard the tread of the legions and watched the armada set forth, to take our moment, our brief afternoon, to be the summit and meaning of eterni...	10
12	579	'What is the meaning of this?' I demanded.	10
13	483	No longer was there doubt about my existence or my meaning.	10
14	1049	It is their meaning, primarily, which renders them provocative, that they are slave garments, that she who wears them is slave".	10
14	1340	But surely she must understand the meaning of those three tiny chevrons on his left sleeve.	10
16	287	Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...	10
16	453	"Did you understand the meaning of slave dance on your old world?" he asked.	10
16	455	Here, on this world, of course, there was no doubt as to what its meaning was.	10
19	656	"I do not know the meaning of the numbers, Mistress," said the girl.	10
23	197	But would they try to run away together? Was that their plan? What would be the case when we did not return to the depths at the proper time, the fifteenth bar? Was this the meaning of the lock gag, that I might be found here after curfew, and even then would be unable, until the gag was removed, to...	10
23	203	Surely she now understood the meaning of her skimpy garment, the significance of the collar on her neck.	10
29	161	You understand the meaning of this, too, I am sure, that you are the slave of the least in the house.	10
29	396	"Indeed," he said, angrily, "what is the meaning of these trappings you wear, this robe, this hood, this veil? Are they not presumptuous on one such as you have become? Do they not do you unwonted honor? Surely you understand that you are no longer entitled to such dignities".	10
29	451	The brand, small and tasteful, but momentous in its meaning, much enhances the beauty of a woman, both aesthetically and cognitively—in the latter dimension marking her as slave, and thus latently, implicitly, indicatively hinting at, or, better, stating, the pleasures, the joys, one may have...	10
31	223	"Do you know the meaning of such habiliments?" inquired the leader of the strangers, eagerly.	10
37	529	The kisses of a slave on the other hand, so subtle, and humble, and well-placed, coupled with her entire demeanor, the meaning of her collar, and such, can drive a man mad with pleasure.	10

Book 27. (50 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1725	"I wonder if any man understands the meaning to a woman of her brand and collar, the particular meaning to her, not to him, of being owned, how exciting and glorious it is, how it debases and dignifies us, how it reduces and exalts us, how it makes us meaningless and gives us meaning, how in denying...	10
4	5	"What am I doing here? What is the meaning of this? Where are my clothes? Why am I dressed like this?" "Did you enjoy the performance of La Bohème?" he asked.	10
4	26	The older woman did not understand the meaning of the reference to "discipline," but something in that word, seemingly in its very sound, terrified her.	10
4	72	Did this mean that she, somehow, now shared some status, or condition, with that other woman, that trivial, simple, stupid, hated, beautiful Tutina? Surely not! Too, she now understood the meaning of the bandage which had been worn by Tutina to both performances.	10
4	523	That is the only interest, and the only meaning, you will have, ever, for any man".	10
7	144	She had not understood its meaning.	10
9	25	"She has deeply ambivalent feelings about her own body, its beauty and needs, her own emotions, the true meaning of her sex".	10
11	186	It impresses upon her that she is a slave, no more than a marked property, and this understanding profoundly affects her concept of herself, that she is only, but exactly, slave, giving it, perhaps to her terror and misery, structure, identity, depth, substance and meaning.	10
11	272	She may not yet fully understand the meaning of the band on her neck, the mark on her thigh".	10
14	108	The master is the meaning of the slave's life, and she rejoices in her collar, that she belongs to him.	10
15	215	"Master!" "Surely you understand its meaning".	10
17	40	They are so eager to serve true men, which many of them had not even realized existed until they were brought to Gor, men so different from the general run of culturally intimidated, negatively conditioned, sexually crippled males they have met on Earth, that they generate an image in the markets, a...	10
17	666	It takes on the fullness of its meaning only in contrast to slavery".	10
17	671	Too, men should be free, and women slaves, as that is the meaning and fulfillment of their minds and bodies".	10
18	10	She desires, in her wonderful vanity, to be so, as all hormonally sufficient women desire to be attractive to men, though some might fear this feeling and be terrified to recognize its obvious, deeper meaning, but, even if she did not, she is subject to discipline.	10
18	474	Like other aspects of the garment, its brevity, simplicity and such, it has its meaning, its role and symbolism.	10
19	520	Well she knew the meaning of that carry.	10
20	328	Too, she did not wish to do so, having come to understand that whatever might be the case with other women, she herself belonged in the collar; the collar was her fulfillment, her dream and meaning.	10
20	393	We understand its meaning well.	10
21	78	In such a place they would be in little doubt of their sex, or of its meaning—just as she, here, on Gor, had learned her sex, and its meaning.	10
22	100	It was her joy, her meaning and fulfillment.	10
22	457	Doubtless he had business here, but it did not seem that it would concern a lowly slave, one he had discarded for a pittance, after teaching her pain, shame, and the meaning of her collar.	10
22	523	"Serving wine," although it will usually have its obvious meaning, is commonly used as a euphemism on Gor for serving the pleasure of a master.	10
23	43	The position accentuates the breasts and, given the position of the hands, is provocatively emblematic; I think that even a male of Earth, one who, if there are any such, had never given a thought to the possibility of female slavery, or even of a particular woman, stripped, and bound hand and foot,...	10
23	248	"Perhaps," she said, "you would prefer that I continue to object to my inner truth, that I continue to deny it, and continue to suffer all the torments of denying my innermost being, the very meaning of my sex, my nature?" "I despise you," he said.	10
24	324	There was no mistaking the meaning, the message, of that sensuous jangle.	10
24	352	Well, noble Mirus, of Earth, so be it! But I think you do find this Earth slut of interest, regardless of what you might claim! Do you think a slave is not aware of the meaning of a master's glances?" Ellen stepped back.	10
24	381	It was not only that the sound was unexpected, and sharp, but that its significance carried a special meaning for such as she, a slave.	10
26	184	How much tragedy there was on that barren world! Did the women there not understand the meaning of their anxieties, their depressions, their displacements, their projections, their confusions, their sense of futility, their anomie, their emotional starvation, their sense of loss, of estrangement, of...	10
26	185	There were women on that world who did not even understand the meaning of their misery and who found themselves forbidden to search for it in the most obvious place, in the denial of nature, in the frustration and starvation of their most basic personal needs.	10
26	309	I wonder if a woman of Earth would understand its meaning.	10
26	333	In a collar, and I hope this will not be surprising, a woman may find clarity and comfort, and her meaning and redemption.	10
26	373	So do not forget this meaning of the collar.	10
26	570	How many, she wondered, clung to their tear-stained pillows, longing for the domination, the mastering, that would complete them, that would give meaning to their lives.	10
26	1154	Could an entire species be in error? And I knew too much history, over a thousand generations, to suppose that the biography of a race was an inexplicable accident, a mere haphazard contingency that might as easily have been otherwise, that it was without meaning or foundation, that there no reason ...	10
26	1305	In bondage a woman finds her reassurance and meaning.	10
26	1736	Do we not fit together? Are we not two parts to a single whole? Are we not meaningless alone, but whole together? Are we not the lock to your key, and you the key to our lock? Only you can open us to ourselves, and only we can reveal to you the full meaning of your key".	10
27	86	The collar enhances their beauty not simply as a lovely ornament, attractive on any woman, but even more by its meaning, that its wearer is a slave, that she is merchandise.	10
27	101	In bondage she finds her meaning and fulfillment.	10
27	790	Some conjecture that the original meaning of 'slave bow' has to do with exhibition.	10
27	793	Others seem to feel that the basic meaning is that of a form of secure and revelatory binding, in which the slave is helplessly and delightfully displayed, and that the exhibitory usages of the expression are secondary, being founded upon, and derivative from, this more basic, original usage.	10
27	799	What is perfectly clear and indisputable is that in Gorean 'slave bow', putting aside considerations of origin, derivation and chronology, and such, has the basic meaning of the forming of the slave's body into a bow, and two application meanings, one pertaining to a modality of exhibition and the o...	10
27	802	A stripped free woman might, of course, be put in a "slave bow," without compromising the meaning of the expression.	10
27	1635	Surely Selius Arconious knew the meaning of that weapon.	10
27	1643	"Now," said Selius Arconious, "you know the meaning of Gor".	10
27	1883	It shuddered with meaning.	10
27	3350	Indeed, the switch will continue to be an admonitory implement which will never lose its appeal to the master or its meaning for the slave.	10
28	167	"They doubtless understood the meaning of the tarns in the sky, the scent of sleen.	10
28	198	At last he seemed to understand the meaning of the collar on her neck, truly.	10
29	301	Suddenly, in terror, she realized the meaning of that.	10

Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	177	Its meaning is that we are women, and exist to be desired and sought, and that we wish, and wish desperately, despite what we might claim, to be desired and sought, and that we exist to be beautiful, and loving, for men, and that we exist to please and serve men, that we are the complementary sex to...	10
1	246	Her bondage may be her terror, but more often it is her meaning and joy.	10
1	933	For example, whereas I am not clear on the nature of "Home Stones," or their meaning, if any, it would be unusual, as I understand it, for a woman to be enslaved by a man with whom she shares a Home Stone.	10
1	1180	But doubtless its most significant aspect is its meaning, that its occupant is a property, that she is owned.	10
2	64	Free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even ...	10
3	17	"What is the meaning of this?" "It is a collar, and chain," said Cabot.	10
3	113	But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant Law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats be clasped within such love...	10
5	91	"She does not know the meaning of the word," he said.	10
18	245	There is a meaning here which transcends biological classification.	10
27	53	"Yes," he said, "both for its aesthetics, and its meaning".	10
28	13	"She has learned something of the meaning of chains," said Cabot.	10
29	50	"Does 'Bina' have a meaning?" she asked.	10
29	190	"Does it have a meaning?" "No," said Cabot.	10
29	192	"Then it has that meaning, at least, in a way," she said.	10
30	135	"They find their meaning, and joy, at the feet of a master".	10
30	141	The meaning of the locution then is extended, metaphorically, to reflect the powerlessness, the unprotectedness, the defenselessness, of the slave, how she is absolutely vulnerable, how she has not the least say over the uses to which she will be put".	10
34	175	"Do you understand the meaning of that?" asked Cabot.	10
34	176	"I do not think I understood it then, at least fully, at least in full consciousness," she said, "but now its meaning is quite clear.	10
43	154	They can humiliate and shame the slave, particularly a new slave, or stir her belly, exciting her with her vulnerability and the profound meaning of her condition.	10
43	331	Consider, too, its meaning!" The Lady Bina swiftly drew on the tunic.	10
43	400	Understand the meaning of that.	10
43	412	To be sure, some of it may have to do with the collar, and its meaning".	10
45	73	After all, what beautiful woman, however sweet, gentle, tender and modest, does not want her beauty recognized, noted, honored, and admired, even celebrated? And what beautiful woman, too, however sweet, gentle, tender, and modest, does not want to be looked upon by males with interest, and avid, ke...	10
45	140	They hope that their masters will soon see fit to remind them of the meaning of their collars.	10
68	7	There was no carried broken spear, of course, but the meaning was clear, that a truce was sought.	10
74	54	Collars much enhance the beauty of a female, aesthetically, certainly, but also in their meaning.	10
75	1	A Slave's Scent is Taken; An Earth Woman is Tortured by her Needs, And Understands the Meaning of This; No Fire Has Been Made "May I speak, Master!" begged the slave.	10
77	63	Only that!" "And most seriously," said Cabot, "and as you have acknowledged, you did something preposterously foolish, something incomprehensibly stupid, the seriousness of which I doubt you understood, something the gravity of which you, unfamiliar with your collar, no more than an ignorant, naive ...	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	490	"Do you understand the meaning of that?" "Yes, Master!" she said.	10
2	162	It gives her security, and meaning, and happiness, and identity.	10
2	248	She finds an inward meaning and happiness and this is inevitably expressed in her features, bodily attitudes, and behaviors.	10
3	612	"But it seems she does not yet know the meaning of her collar," I said.	10
5	399	I now suspected the meaning of the signal smoke near the bow of the round ship, and why she had recalled her longboat, had swung about and unfurled her sail.	10
9	294	"I trust," said Miss Wentworth to Pertinax, "you are not toying with contemplating the possible meaning of your bestial strength, that you are not tempted to acknowledge your desires".	10
11	68	"I have explained to you the meaning of 'Saru'," he said.	10
13	78	"Do you not understand the meaning of the mat and chain?" I asked.	10
15	84	Indeed, some girls are so thrilled with these enhancements to their meaning as a slave and their beauty as a slave that they wear them before men almost insolently, or brazenly, or defiantly, or tauntingly.	10
22	225	"The wholeness of your life," I said, "and your meaning, the fullness of it, all of it, and the very reason for your existence, and the only reason for your existence, is now to be a pleasure object for masters.	10
22	385	She was attractive, and a slave, and I was no more than what I was, a male in the vicinity of a woman who perhaps did not even understand the impact and lure of what she was, a female slave, an impact and lure so much more powerful than that of a mere free woman, indeed, a slave who might not, as ye...	10
23	207	I recalled that those of the dark caste, the caste of Assassins, were often sober fellows, often denying themselves much of what most prized as giving meaning to life.	10

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	329	Can she live with this? Is that fellow smiling? What is the meaning of that look, by another, or does it have a meaning? When any fellow's eyes are upon her she seizes her veils and holds them more closely about her face.	10
28	223	"No," she said, "a thousand times no! I have known the emptiness, the loneliness, of freedom, the pretensions, the selfishness, the uncertainties of freedom, the confusions, the lack of place, the opacities and ambiguities of freedom, the lack of purpose, the lack of meaning and identity!" "It is tr...	10
1	149	Clearly she was uneasy, and did not understand the meaning of her summons, this late, the tavern muchly empty, the group gathered about the small table, the stranger, in rags and mariner's cap, before whom she knelt.	10
1	197	There is little in a paga tavern which does not have, in one way or another, its meaning.	10
3	589	I forced from my mind what might be the meaning, the symbolism, of such a position before men.	10
3	855	I was chained! I, a free woman of Ar, was chained, as might have been a female slave! "'What is the meaning of this!' I cried, lifting the chain, shaking it".	10
8	116	But most of the slaves, by far the greater number, being well apprised by now of the meaning and import of their neck encirclements, and radiant with collar joy, knowing they had irrevocably lost the battle with men which they had never, truly, desired to win, addressed themselves with a light heart...	10
8	382	Are they not already half-slave, even before being fitted with the collar? They only become sensitive to such matters when, later, they become aware of the meaning of their bared faces.	10
10	49	Such gross women, sold perhaps for a pittance, and taught the meaning of their sex, if only by the whip, discovered the femininity they had thought nonexistent, and had professed to despise in their smaller sisters.	10
12	660	Perhaps few understand the meaning of their restlessness, their irritations, their distractions, their turnings and thrashings in the night, or perhaps, somehow, they understand them only too well.	10
19	33	Women, their master's properties, find their meaning, and their true self, in bondage.	10
21	61	Is that not known even by free women? To be sure, the matter is not purely aesthetic, though that aspect is indisputable, but is also a matter of its meaning, that she whose neck it encircles is the most desirable of females, the female who is goods, slave goods.	10
21	235	"What is the meaning of that?" asked Tyrtaios.	10
21	240	I did not know its meaning here.	10
23	67	"I fear you mistake my meaning, commander," I said.	10
26	114	"What is the meaning of that?" asked a man.	10
33	97	In bondage, many such women learn their beauty, their sex, their nature, their meaning, and their identity.	10
36	269	It would be rare, given the common meaning of the talmit, that of authority, to see two together, both in the talmit.	10
37	171	"You understand," he said, "the meaning of your condition?" "Yes, Master," she said.	10
37	199	Deprive the she-sleen of her domination and she will become confused, and bitter, denied her coveted meaning as your beast.	10
37	226	I did not understand the meaning of this, either.	10

Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	328	"He has tortured himself to make sense of the possible meaning of the list, the meaning of the individual cards, their order, and such".	10
5	49	What woman would be immune to such flattery, the flattery of chains, the tunic, the collar, the whip? What woman, in her vanity, would be insensible of the compliment paid to her, the compliment of thongs and bracelets? How could she be unaware of the tribute and honor paid to her, that she should b...	10
7	34	But even so, would not anyone seeing us so have found the behavior interesting and not without meaning? Did it not seem clear, the sort of female who must serve so? But even so, our service must be modest.	10
7	317	I did not doubt that much more might have to do with its meaning, what it proclaimed about its bearer! I examined the mark.	10
7	318	It was small, fine, lovely, and tasteful, and telling in its meaning.	10
7	369	What is the very meaning of her collar, her condition, and tunic? Does it not say, "Here Masters, behold, here is a female slave.	10
8	1195	On the other hand, it is also clear that the connotations of the term 'barbarian', if not its literal meaning, extend well beyond the matter of what might be one's native language.	10
10	323	Collared and slave-clad what woman would not be beautiful? And there is the meaning and nature of the condition which in itself enhances the beauty of a woman a thousandfold, for she is then slave.	10
35	205	There are much more complex and subtle ways to conceal meaning, of course, but the device I have explained to you is simple, easily understood, and likely, as far as they know, to be secure.	10
35	329	"Perhaps there is no meaning," I said.	10
41	135	Your mistake was a natural one, namely to look for meaning where it would seem most likely to lie, on the face of the cards.	10
41	136	It, however, lies on the edges of the cards, on sixty edges, each one meaningless in itself, a meaning which manifests itself only when the sixty edges are suitably aligned".	10
50	83	I did not ask the meaning of this departure from his normal procedure.	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	78	Perhaps she suspected its meaning.	10
5	72	How horrifying then if, despite my intentions, so well- meaning and innocent, it might have been this very charade which has brought me to my chains, in a Gorean dungeon, awaiting shipment, with others, we know not where.	10
5	172	I did not know the meaning of the words 'La kajira\ but it was not difficult, under the circumstances, to speculate on their nature.	10
8	224	What would an Earth slut make of being naked, and belled? Any woman, I supposed, would understand such things, what sort of woman would be belled, and the meaning of being belled.	10
11	95	Here, on this world, I discovered what I had long suspected on my former world, the meaning of my smaller, softer, so different body, its slightness and curves; here I found the explanation of a thousand dispositions, needs, and hopes I had been commanded to ignore or deny on my former world.	10
11	166	How strange how a single moment, a chance encounter, can alter a consciousness and transform a life, reordering an existence and its meaning.	10
15	166	How are men to be paid, and wars waged, if not with gold? In any event, she who had once been "Eighteen" had now changed considerably, and surely was now better aware of the meaning of the mark which had been burned into her left thigh, just under the hip.	10
15	473	What was the meaning of such a ship? For what work, what voyage, might it be intended? It was not a warship in any common sense; yet, interestingly, it nested six galleys, three to a side, which might be independently launched, and those galleys, I gathered, given their rams and large, crescent-like...	10
15	749	In a thousand ways we may be put to use, and sometimes with little more meaning than a casual cuffing.	10
37	5	"What is the meaning of this?" she demanded, jerking at the restraints.	10
39	425	She will later learn their meaning.	10
47	3	So she had sported with me, humiliating me before Genserich and his men, even before slaves! So then I would sport with her, and she would not soon forget the sport, might I find her! Twice she had fled! Did she think such things might be done with impunity? Did she think the band about her neck, lo...	10
50	969	"What do you think the point of all this is," she asked, "the meaning of such a chaining?" "I think," I said, "to instruct me".	10
50	976	"But there is more meaning here," she said, "than you understand, and perhaps more than he who chained you understands".	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	207	What had happened to her? Where was she? What was going on? Who had done this? What was the meaning of this radical transformation in her circumstances, the meaning of her startling, unanticipated, terrifying incarceration? The other woman was the human pet of a Kur, for Kurii sometimes keep humans ...	10
50	120	Indeed, if one listened only briefly, or did not listen carefully, one might have supposed that something of that sort was on the other side of the door, perhaps caged, perhaps chained, but, if one attended more carefully, one began shortly to suspect, and it was a most unsettling suspicion, particu...	10
12	356	"You have perhaps guessed the meaning of the bones and shells," said Daichi.	10
20	82	The girl understands its meaning, and so, too, do those who look upon her".	10
29	453	"But its meaning!" she said.	10
29	455	"Its meaning is clear, and indisputable".	10
37	12	"It is the meaning, the difference," I said, "that for which men will kill, that for which men will die".	10
45	134	Sometimes, when matters are dark, the skies of meaning confused, and the hundred inconsistent reports vie for one's attention, one chooses men, not rhetorics.	10
49	20	Such would be well aware of her collar, and its meaning.	10

Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	241	There is no more meaning, purpose, or weight to you than to a handful of confetti.	10
3	95	"She will learn her sex there, its meaning and uses," said the leader, "or be fed to sleen".	10
6	118	"And what is the meaning of 'kajira'?" I asked.	10
7	240	I did not understand the meaning of this.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	198	Meaning, unnoticed, far exceeds the meaning of words.	10