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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	66	Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', attendants'...	10
9	20	"I will be the daughter of a rich merchant whom you have captured," she explained.	10
9	82	"So," she said contemptuously, "that is how a Warrior tarnsman treats the daughter of a rich merchant?" I rolled onto the ground, turning away from her, unable to sleep.	10
9	102	"I am Kazrak of Port Kar," he said, "in the service of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste".	10
9	178	"It is the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste," said Kazrak.	10
10	7	As I stood tensely, ringed by the lances of the caravan guards, the wall of tharlarions parted to allow the approach of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
10	12	The little eyes of the merchant swept the scene quickly, like a bird's, startling in their contrast with the plethoric giganticism of his frame.	10
10	13	"So," said the merchant, "Kazrak of Port Kar has met his match?" "It is the first challenge I have ever lost," replied Kazrak proudly.	10
10	37	"I am a merchant," said Mintar, "and it is in my code to see that I am paid".	10
10	44	"Tarl of Bristol," he said, "do you take service with Mintar, of the Merchant Caste?" "If I do not?" I asked.	10
10	64	"I am," announced Talena proudly, "the daughter of a rich merchant, the richest on Gor, stolen from her father by this tarnsman.	10
10	66	"I am the richest merchant on Gor," said Mintar calmly.	10
10	68	"If your father is a merchant, tell me his name," he said.	10
10	83	"I am an honest merchant," said Mintar, "and I would not cheat you, but you do well to handle your own affairs".	10
10	176	"I suppose," she said, attempting to save face, "it would perhaps be appropriate for a tarnsman to place his collar on the captive daughter of a rich merchant".	10
11	24	I noted with satisfaction that Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, proud leader of perhaps the greatest horde ever assembled on the plains of Gor, had need of Mintar, who was only of the Merchant Caste.	10
11	45	We watched in one stall a bronzed giant apparently swallowing balls of fire, in the next a silk merchant crying the glories of his cloth, in another a hawker of paga; in still another we watched the swaying bodies of dancing slave girls as their master proclaimed their rent price.	10
11	58	I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant.	10
11	59	How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical...	10
14	130	"I myself, as one of the Afflicted, learned it from Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
15	44	I stopped a hurrying slave girl and inquired the way to the compound of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, confident that he would have accompanied the horde back to the heartland of Ar.	10
15	53	I wandered about the outskirts of Mintar's compound, which was separated, like many of the merchant compounds, from the main camp by a tough fence of woven branches.	10
15	55	The compound of Mintar enclosed several acres of ground and was the largest merchant compound in the camp.	10
15	65	Normally, the merchant camp, like the better-organized military camps, not the mélange that constituted the camp of Pa-Kur, is laid out geometrically, and, night after night, one puts up one's tent in the same relative position.	10
15	108	It was one of the trusted strap-masters of Mintar, the man who guided the beasts that carried the merchant's palanquin.	10
15	110	"Will Kazrak and his guest, Tarl of Bristol, please accompany me to the tent of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste?" asked the man.	10
15	118	One was Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, his great bulk resting like a sack of meal on the cushions.	10
15	263	"Though you are of the Merchant Caste, you are a brave man".	10
15	264	"A merchant may be as brave as a warrior, young Tarnsman," smiled Mintar.	10
17	61	Perhaps I alone of that vast horde, with the possible exception of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, felt like weeping.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	174	"They would use me and sell me, perhaps to some passing merchant, perhaps in the Street of Brands in Ar".	10
9	148	Soon, pounding the time on the table with the butt of my spear, I was leading a raucous round of songs, mostly wild drinking songs, warrior songs, songs of the encampment and march, but too I taught them songs I had learned in the caravan of Mintar the Merchant, so long ago, when I had first loved T...	10
21	12	It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
21	150	What could I tell this merchant, this specialist in the traffic of flesh, this businessman who stood well within the ancient traditions and practices of his trade? Could I tell him that I did not wish the girl to be hurt? He would have thought me a mad man.	10
21	169	My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	54	The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant Law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.	10
1	56	Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant Law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.	10

Book 4. (56 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	211	Kamchak turned to the small, fat merchant and his scarred, furrowed face broke into a grin, bearing down on the round, pinkish face of the merchant.	10
1	32	I crossed the Cartius on a barge, one of several hired by the merchant of the caravan with which I was then serving.	10
6	8	If, in the case of a singer, the song is rejected, or, in the case of a merchant, his merchandise is rejected, he is slain out of hand.	10
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	3	It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	18	There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...	10
9	21	"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish".	10
9	27	"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".	10
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.	10
9	120	If there had been no women for us to view in the streets of Turia, Saphrar, merchant of the city, had determined to make that omission good at his banquet.	10
9	161	I and all others turned our eyes to a wide, swirling marble stairway in the back and to the left of the lofty banquet hall in the house of Saphrar the merchant.	10
9	171	Until then, I gathered, her means were in the doubtless capable hands of Saphrar the merchant.	10
9	174	The father of Aphris of Turia, Tethrar of Turia, had been the richest merchant in this city, itself one of the richest cities of Gor.	10
9	180	"Is she not worth the golden sphere?" asked the merchant.	10
9	233	Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean free woman.	10
9	464	It was something he would not buy with the golden sphere from Saphrar the merchant; it was something he was clearly capable of arranging, with Tuchuk cunning, by himself.	10
9	480	Thus, if Aphris of Turia, by some mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
11	62	"You do not even have a name," hissed the little merchant.	10
11	83	"I do not speak to slaves," said he, and the merchant, on the palanquin, moved away toward the walls of distant Turia.	10
12	20	How was it that he, a merchant of Turia, knew of the golden sphere? How was it that he, a man of shrewdness and intelligence, seemed willing to barter volumes of gold for what he termed merely a curiosity? There seemed to be something here at odds with the rational avarice of mercantile calculation,...	10
12	21	Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.	10
12	32	I supposed he was curious about me, not a Tuchuk, not a merchant or singer, yet among the Wagons.	10
12	211	The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon.	10
15	43	Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.	10
15	130	"I expect," I said, "it might be found here or there in the House of Saphrar, a merchant of Turia".	10
15	131	"That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphrar".	10
16	131	The merchant wore his Pleasure Robes of white and gold and his sandals, too, were of white leather bound with golden straps.	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
16	196	"The little urt was trying to pick my pouch!" "You were not always a merchant, then?" I asked Saphrar.	10
16	204	"How then are you a rich merchant?" I asked.	10
16	211	"In fact," continued the small merchant, "it was he who arranged my fortunes and sent me, some years ago, to Turia".	10
16	216	Though raised in Tyros and successful in Turia, Saphrar the merchant thought of himself as one of Port Kar.	10
16	256	Then the little merchant stood up and clapped his hands twice.	10
19	33	And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
20	156	I was elated that we had managed to escape alive from the House of Saphrar, but I knew that I must return to the city, for I had not obtained the object for which I had come—the golden sphere—which still resided in the merchant stronghold.	10
21	43	My hair was concealed in the hood of a thin, ankle-length rep-cloth garment, a dirty white through which ran flecks of golden thread, a fit garment, in my opinion, for an insignificant merchant.	10
21	76	"Stop that man! Stop him! I know him! He is Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba! Stop him!" I stumbled in the long robe of the merchant and cursed and leaped up and ran again.	10
21	112	There I dyed my hair black and exchanged the robes of the merchant for the yellow and brown tunic of the Bakers, to which caste her father and two brothers had belonged.	10
21	115	Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant.	10
21	140	This pleased her, as I guessed anything would which was contrary to the interests of the Turian merchant, for whom she entertained the greatest hatred.	10
21	183	"Look," I said, "there comes a single merchant wagon—it must be safe now on the plains".	10
21	190	I watched the merchant wagon, large and heavy, wide, with planked sides painted alternately white and gold, covered with a white and gold rain canvas.	10
21	191	It was drawn not by the draft tharlarion like most merchant wagons but, like some, by four brown bosk.	10
21	206	The heavy merchant wagon was near the main gate now and it was being waved forward.	10
21	215	This train of thought was interrupted by the sounds of an altercation below, the shouting of an annoyed guardsman at the gate, the protesting cries of the driver of the merchant wagon.	10
26	131	We passed through the banquet hall, where long before we had been entertained by the fleeing merchant.	10
26	132	We passed through kitchens and galleries, even through the private compartments of Saphrar himself, where we saw the multitudinous robes and sandals of the merchant, each worked predominantly in white and gold, though often mixed with hundreds of other colors.	10
26	156	Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10
26	251	Kamchak regarded the merchant.	10
26	276	The Paravaci was much stronger than the fat, tiny merchant and he soon had his hands well on the sphere and was tearing it out of the smaller man's clutching hands.	10
26	344	The merchant was covered with sweat.	10
26	357	Then Saphrar, merchant of Turia, struggled, pounding against the caked material near to him, to prevent his being drawn under.	10
26	363	"Remember Kutaituchik," said Kamchak, and the filamentous fibers about the merchant's legs and ankles drew him slowly downward.	10
26	365	Then the merchant's hands, still extended as though to grasp the vines overhead, with their scarlet fingernails, the robes eaten away from the flesh, disappeared beneath the sparkling, glistening surface.	10
26	384	He added, "As you said, we did not fire on him for he did not have with him the merchant, Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	389	He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	225	"You are a Merchant?" asked the Player.	10
15	400	The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.	10
17	164	"He knows the business and needs of Ar," said the guard, "as would a Merchant, but he is yet of the Caste of Warriors".	10
19	285	"Two hundred gold pieces," said a merchant from Cos.	10
19	416	"You!" cried Elizabeth, pointing to a merchant in rich robes in the fifth tier.	10
21	226	He who is a Singer must sing; he who weaves the beautiful rugs of Ar or Tor must weave; the Physician must heal; the Builder build; the Merchant buy and sell; and the Warrior must fight.	10
21	239	The Physician must heal; the Builder build; the Merchant buy and sell.	10

Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	101	Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the sla...	10
9	117	I knew one of these mercenary captains, Ha-Keel, murderer, once of Ar, whom I had met in Turia, in the house of Saphrar, a merchant.	10
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.	10
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.	10
10	36	As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it.	10
10	37	Port Kar's Merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".	10
10	259	I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.	10
10	330	But how would he have come to know this? And how could he have come to understand that Bosk, fighting man and merchant, was the same as he who once had been a warrior of the towered city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning? Doubtless he wished to summon me to his presence, that he might recall me...	10
11	591	The possibility of peace on Thassa was an attractive one to me, a merchant.	10
17	301	I had met Ha-Keel at a house in Turia, the house of Saphrar, a Merchant.	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1	The Brand The following account is written at the command of my master, Bosk of Port Kar, the great merchant, and, I think, once of the warriors.	10
7	159	The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with red rain canvas.	10
8	809	The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter.	10
12	85	Indeed, other wagons, we gathered, merchant wagons and those of peasants, too, were blocked in the streets.	10
12	439	Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied.	10
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant Law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.	10
12	448	Five days out of Ko-ro-ba, we had stopped at one of these Merchant Fortresses.	10
12	706	It had been a desperate measure, and one not willingly adopted by a merchant.	10
14	499	Often she begs to be sold to a foreign merchant.	10
15	525	"I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar".	10
15	527	"The merchant," smiled Rask of Treve, "was persuaded to give her to me, free of all costs, as a token of his esteem for the men and city of Treve".	10
17	262	Rask of Treve must not die! He must not die! "You will be placed in the house of Bosk, a merchant of Port Kar," he said.	10
17	400	"We found three bodies," said Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar.	10
17	473	Bosk, I am told, set my price at twenty pieces of gold, that he might, as a merchant, take his profit on me.	10

Book 8. (24 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	87	Indeed, there were many important merchants who had daughters, for example, the first merchant of Teletus and the first merchant of Asperiche.	10
1	24	I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar, trimmed with golden cloth, from Tor, the colors of the Merchant.	10
1	165	The curule chair at my high table was among the most honored and envied on Gor! What honor it was to be the woman of Bosk, merchant, admiral! And yet she had turned her back on this! She had displeased me! She had dared to displease me! Bosk! The marshes had nothing to offer her.	10
1	222	The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of t...	10
3	11	I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...	10
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant Law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.	10
3	55	They did not appear to be merchant rowers.	10
3	260	Behind the wagon, in the white robes trimmed with gold and purple of Merchant Magistrates, came five men.	10
3	379	"Let us see her!" called a merchant.	10
6	115	"I am a merchant," I said.	10
6	167	A Merchant of Tabor, accordingly, fearing Tyros, would not be likely to return Talena to Marlenus.	10
6	389	"I am a merchant.	10
6	459	"This merchant," said the girl, "tells us that you are his slave.	10
6	500	Then she mused, "Verna told us that Marlenus of Ar would not approach us as you have done, and that he would not use a merchant to do his business for him".	10
6	532	In the morning, Merchant, leave them".	10
6	544	"And, Merchant," said she, "do not seek hereafter to mix in the affairs of Verna and Marlenus".	10
6	942	"Yes," she said, "or slay me—should it please you!" "But I am a merchant," I said, "I would not wish to take the loss.	10
11	360	"One of my men, unknown to her, pretending to be a merchant, arrived in the camp.	10
12	7	I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo...	10
12	110	Too, many Ubars and Administrators might not wish to ally their house with that of a mere merchant.	10
14	151	The blood in me that I felt then was not that of the merchant.	10
15	333	"No merchant," she said, "could have taken us as you did.	10
17	125	The remaining eighty-four could be accounted for by reference to the jewels fastened on the slave chain of Bosk, a merchant of Port Kar.	10
22	101	Saphrar, a merchant of Tyros, resplendent in Turia, had similarly described the man who had enlisted his services in behalf of those who contested worlds with Priest-Kings.	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	117	And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his Free Companion.	10
1	276	He sold me to a salt merchant".	10
2	232	I supposed her the daughter of a rich merchant.	10
2	262	The peasant tilled his fields, the fisherman went out in his boat, the merchant risked his capital.	10
6	209	The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.	10
10	574	"I was sold in Ar," she said, "to a merchant from Cos.	10
10	624	I did not wish, incidentally, even if I could, to give him a gift commensurate with what he had, in his hospitality, bestowed upon me; the host, in Torvaldsland, should make the greatest gifts; it is, after all, his house or hall; if his guest should make him greater gifts than he makes the guest th...	10

Book 10. (88 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	414	"This is Ibn Saran, salt merchant of the river port of Kasra," said Samos.	10
1	816	It was in this port that the warehouses of Ibn Saran, salt merchant, currently the guest of Samos of Port Kar, were to be found.	10
1	863	Ibn Saran, salt merchant of Kasra, did not rise from behind the table behind which, cross-legged, he sat.	10
2	191	His name was Achmed, and his father's name was Farouk, who was a Kasra merchant.	10
2	193	A merchant passed me, climbing the stones of the street.	10
2	413	Not five paces behind them I saw a ragged cutpurse cut the wallet of a merchant, dropping its contents into his hand and, bowing and whining, twist away in the crowd.	10
2	414	The merchant huffed away.	10
2	419	I went about Tor now as a traveler from Turia, a small merchant.	10
2	594	I had assumed the name Hakim, a Tahari name, one suitable for a merchant.	10
3	60	He was a merchant.	10
3	80	' "I would be much pleased," I told the merchant, "to dine with you this night".	10
3	98	Farouk, merchant of Kasra, smiled.	10
3	117	"I am a humble merchant," I said.	10
3	119	"You do not handle a sword like a merchant," smiled Farouk of Kasra.	10
4	441	I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand.	10
5	30	He was a salt merchant, from Kasra.	10
5	67	It was not unusual that a merchant might bring with him a dancing slave to a business meeting.	10
5	525	Moreover, with the dates purchased by these, I hoped to have a suitable disguise, as a merchant in date bricks, in moving eastward.	10
5	545	Ibn Saran, it seemed to me, exercised more influence at the Oasis of Nine Wells than one might have expected of a mere merchant of salt.	10
5	837	"Give this merchant in gems," said he, "my note, stamped for eighty weights of dates".	10
7	38	And, earlier, months ago, a caravan boy, Achmed, the son of the merchant, Farouk of Kasra, had found the inscription on a rock, "Beware the steel tower".	10
8	13	In my new burnoose and sash, a rather ostentatious yellow and purple, befitting, however, a local merchant, or peddler, who wishes to call attention to himself, I myself went about the shops, making purchases.	10
8	20	I deferred to him, which it seemed to me was advisable for a local date merchant.	10
10	17	"Tal," said Hassan, to the merchant who stood at his stirrup.	10
10	18	"We have water," said the merchant, greeting the bandit.	10
10	20	"You have goods for me?" asked the merchant.	10
10	42	"Six days ago," said the merchant, "soldiers, Aretai, from Nine Wells raided the Oasis of the Sand Sleen".	10
10	43	It puzzled me that the merchant should say this.	10
10	49	"They struck here last night," said the merchant.	10
10	53	"They broke a well," said the merchant.	10
10	57	"I do not jest," said the merchant.	10
10	59	"The well is broken," said the merchant.	10
10	61	"We are attempting to dig out the rock, the sand," said the merchant.	10
10	66	Surely, in but a few days, word that Aretai tribesmen had destroyed, or attempted to destroy, a well at Two Scimitars would spread like fire across the desert, inflaming and outraging men from Tor to the Turian outpost, merchant fort, and trading station of Turmas.	10
10	68	"Even now the war messengers ride," said the merchant.	10
10	72	"Business must go on," said the merchant.	10
10	75	"Are you sure the raiders were Aretai?" I asked the merchant.	10
10	82	"The agal cording was Aretai," said the merchant.	10
10	85	"If the Aretai want war—to the destruction of water—they shall have it," said the merchant.	10
10	87	"Of course," said the merchant.	10
10	93	"Interesting, Hassan," smiled the merchant, "that it should be the slave you choose to carry before your saddle".	10
10	95	"Her brand is fresh," smiled the merchant.	10
10	97	"Doubtless you put the iron to her body yourself," said the merchant.	10
10	99	"It is an excellent job," said the merchant.	10
10	103	"And superbly," said the merchant.	10
10	106	"Is she alive?" asked the merchant.	10
10	110	"She is alive," commented the merchant.	10
10	114	The merchant then went to Tafa, the free woman.	10
10	116	"Are you free?" asked the merchant.	10
10	123	The merchant then turned and entered his courtyard.	10
10	124	Hassan, his man, I, and others of his men, slowly, on kaiila, filed into the courtyard, following the merchant.	10
10	132	When the whip snapped, a heavy whip in the hand of one of the merchant's brawny aides, the girl cried out, and her body reacted, in terror, as though struck.	10
10	136	"Stand!" said the merchant.	10
10	146	"Hassan?" asked the merchant.	10
10	149	"Crawl to his feet," ordered the merchant.	10
10	151	"On your belly," said the merchant.	10
10	160	"What is she worth?" asked Hassan of the merchant.	10
10	165	"And two tarn disks of gold, of the mintage of Ar, for the free wench," said the merchant.	10
10	168	"Take this slave away," said the merchant.	10
10	173	Hassan took the moneys from the merchant.	10
10	174	"In the next room," said the merchant, "we will deal for the other goods".	10
10	182	"No, Yiza, retire," said the merchant.	10
10	195	"The breaking of a well," said the merchant, "is an almost inconceivable criminal act".	10
10	198	Earlier, though it had not been our original intention, following our commercial interaction, in which Hassan had exchanged his plunder, flesh and otherwise, for gold, we had been conducted by the merchant to the well, shattered, perhaps ruined.	10
10	201	We had then retired to the merchant's house for black wine.	10
10	209	"And strangest of all," said the merchant, leaning forward, looking at us intently, "is the fact that the Aretai raiders were led by a woman!" "A woman?" asked Hassan.	10
10	210	"Yes," said the merchant.	10
10	212	"To all the oases of the Kavars and their vassal tribes," said the merchant.	10
10	214	"With those who have cost water?" asked the merchant.	10
10	215	"Of course not!" "And what word," asked Hassan, "has been heard from Haroun, high pasha of the Kavars?" "Who knows where Haroun is?" asked the merchant, spreading his hands.	10
10	216	"And of his vizier, Baram, Sheik of Bezhad?" "The war messengers have been sent," said the merchant.	10
10	218	"The tribes gather," said the merchant.	10
10	222	"Hasaad Pasha knows that raiders come to Two Scimitars," smiled the merchant.	10
10	228	What would we do?" "Ride past one another shouting wildly?" suggested the merchant.	10
10	230	"You would probably have to kill one another," said the merchant.	10
10	232	"At night," said the merchant, "you, and others, are always welcome in Two Scimitars".	10
10	235	"We are complicated," admitted the merchant.	10
10	238	"We of Two Scimitars," said the merchant, "cannot be held accountable for the lack of sophistication in such simple rogues".	10
10	240	"To such simple rogues," smiled the merchant.	10
10	242	"Of course," said the merchant.	10
10	247	May you always have water," said the merchant.	10
10	253	"The merchant told us that six days ago Aretai from Nine Wells raided the oasis of the Sand Sleen".	10
10	305	"A lowly gem merchant," I said.	10
11	414	It seemed reasonably clear that if such were not the case someone, nomad or merchant, or innkeeper or drover, or guide or soldier, would have heard of it.	10
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".	10
13	162	"It is not clear to me," said Hassan, "why a simple date merchant, like my friend, Hakim of Tor, and I, a lowly bandit, would be of interest to one so august as yourself".	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
23	106	Usually an Aretai merchant, selling small goods, would visit the tents of the Khan of the Tajuks, the black kaffiyeh and white agal cording guaranteeing him safe passage, and, at the campfire of the Khan, after his trading, while drinking tea, would say, "I have heard that the Aretai are gathering f...	10

Book 11. (42 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	216	At one time a girl, the Lady Sabina, the daughter of a merchant, Kleomenes of Fortress of Saphronicus, high merchant of that city, had been pledged in Companion Contract to this Thandar of Ti.	10
3	268	The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant administrators in t...	10
3	530	In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products dis...	10
5	124	The retinue was the betrothal and dowry retinue of the Lady Sabina of the small merchant polis of Fortress of Saphronicus bound overland for Ti, of the Four Cities of Saleria, of the Salerian Confederation.	10
5	135	The Lady Sabina, I learned from Eta, was pledged by her father, Kleomenes, a pretentious, but powerful, upstart merchant of Fortress of Saphronicus, to Thandar of Ti, of the Warriors, youngest of the five sons of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, this done in a Companion ...	10
5	185	One lunar month from this date, by the phases of the largest moon, after days of preparation, the ceremony of the companionship was scheduled to be consummated in Ti, binding together as companions Thandar of Ti, son of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, Administrator of Ti, and the Lady Sabina, daughter of Kl...	10
5	212	From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew how ambitious mi...	10
5	703	"Comb the hair of the spoiled brat of a merchant, if you wish," said the first.	10
7	61	It had been his charge, I supposed, doubtless placed upon him by Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of that city, to prevent or disrupt the imminent alliance forming between Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria, an alliance to be confirmed and sealed in the companionship of Thandar of Ti, youn...	10
7	62	In a bold coup had my master carried off the merchant's daughter.	10
7	635	But Donna, though she had been adjudged fit for men and branded, was sold from the block in Ko-ro-ba to a visiting merchant, Kleomenes of Fortress of Saphronicus, who took her with him and gave her to his spoiled daughter, the Lady Sabina, as a woman's slave.	10
9	1131	"I am a merchant," said Ladletender.	10
10	28	It was a caravan of Mintar, the great merchant.	10
10	43	In the distance, even from the pool, I could see the white, looming walls of the merchant keep, Stones of Turmus, a Turian outpost, licensed for the storage of goods within the realm of Ar.	10
10	57	Cos, and the other major maritime Ubarate, Tyros, on the other hand, had traditionally conducted trade, through overland merchant connections, with these territories.	10
11	202	This is a merchant keep, under the banner and shield of Turia".	10
11	203	That the keep was under the banner of Turia designated it as a Turian keep, distinguishing it in this sense not only from keeps maintained by other cities but more importantly from the "free keeps" maintained by the merchant caste in its own right, keeps without specific municipal affiliations.	10
11	204	Similarly, the merchant caste, which is international, so to speak, in its organization, arranges and conducts the four great fairs which occur annually in the vicinity of the Sardar mountains.	10
11	205	The merchant caste, too, maintains certain free ports on certain islands and on the coasts of Thassa, such as Teletus and Bazi.	10
12	746	"We must be at the merchant rendezvous before dawn".	10
17	22	"What girls here," asked one of the men, who seemed imposing, in helmet and cloak, with four fellows, of the man with the lamp, a short, fat fellow in the merchants' white and gold, "are from the Clouds of Telnus?" "None, of course, Noble Sir," said the merchant.	10
17	24	"Not I!" cried the shorter man, the merchant.	10
17	48	The merchant handed him the key that would unlock the wrist rings.	10
17	50	The short merchant handed him the lamp and, frightened, left the room.	10
17	106	They met the merchant by the door.	10
17	107	"There are penalties for this sort of thing," the tall man warned the merchant.	10
17	108	"Please, Masters," whined the merchant.	10
17	110	"Yes, yes, Masters!" cried the merchant.	10
17	121	"I had them from the fine slaver, Alexander of Teletus," said the merchant, "but their papers were lost in transit".	10
20	149	They would then row on the merchant galleys of Cos.	10
20	150	Warships commonly have free oarsmen; merchant ships commonly, but not always, use slaves.	10
20	290	I saw one who must be his master, a merchant.	10
20	292	I ran to the merchant and knelt before him.	10
20	306	"You are too good for him?" asked the merchant.	10
21	75	Such ships are sometimes used for merchant service.	10
22	108	The Jewel of Jad was a long ship, a ramship, though she was now in merchant service.	10
22	451	This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.	10
26	41	The merchant would then fill her order, tie the merchandise about my neck, put the change in the leather capsule, close it and, sometimes with a friendly slap, dismissing me, reminding me that I was pretty, regardless of being a woman's slave, send me back to my mistress.	10
26	202	"You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.	10
27	524	It is unseemly for a Warrior to take as a companion the daughter of a merchant.	10
27	564	"That the flank of a merchant's daughter has met the iron cannot dishonor me," said Thandar of Ti.	10
27	582	"You are the daughter of a merchant," he said.	10

Book 12. (45 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	172	I had brought her back with me from the Tahari to the house of Bosk, captain, and merchant, of Port Kar.	10
1	384	"Did you not think such a gift strange for a merchant and mariner?" "Forgive a girl, Master," she said.	10
3	50	"Where are the merchant tables," I asked a fellow from Torvaldsland, with braided blond hair and shaggy jacket, eating on a roast leg of tarsk, "where the odds on the Kaissa matches are being given?" "I do not know," he said.	10
3	75	It is here that Merchant Law is drafted and stabilized.	10
3	116	The Sardar fairs are organized, regulated and administered by the Merchant Caste.	10
3	156	I decided it would be best to search for a merchant who was on the fair's staff, or find one of their booths or praetor stations, where such information might be found.	10
3	243	"Is this girl bothering you?" asked a merchant, one whose head bore the talmit of the fair's staff.	10
3	354	"Next," called the odds merchant.	10
3	358	"Who are you?" asked the odds merchant.	10
3	373	"Next," said the odds merchant.	10
3	395	Small signs fixed on the platforms identify the flesh merchant, such as 'These are the girls of Sorb of Turia' or 'These slaves are owned by Tenalion of Ar'.	10
3	1282	He wore, as I, merchant robes.	10
3	1328	She had been the slave who had followed me earlier in the day, who had bitten at my sleeve near the puppet theater, whom I had saved from a beating by the guardsmen under the aegis of the officer of the fair's merchant staff.	10
4	279	"No! No!" cried a merchant of Cos.	10
4	583	Inside, crouching over a fallen man, the merchant, was the attacker, robed in swirling black.	10
4	586	The merchant's assistant, the scribe, his face and arm bleeding, stood to one side.	10
4	594	"Or is it of the assassins?" The struck merchant, bleeding, thrust himself back from the attacker.	10
4	648	A man held the merchant in his arms.	10
4	664	I returned my attention to the struck merchant.	10
4	666	"Will I die?" asked the merchant.	10
4	673	Others might attend to the work of stanching the flow of blood from the wounds of the merchant.	10
4	679	Would one risk one's throat and blood for a toy of wood or an ivory carving? "In that, and that alone," said the merchant, pointing to the object which the thief had held, and which he had dropped in our struggle.	10
4	681	Men held cloth against the wounds of the merchant.	10
4	683	"Why would he not have bought it?" asked the merchant.	10
4	688	He began to attend to the merchant.	10
4	689	"You will live," he assured the merchant.	10
4	696	When the physician had finished the cleansing, chemical sterilization, and dressing of the merchant's wounds, he left.	10
4	700	Then only I remained in the booth with the scribe and merchant.	10
4	712	I indicated the merchant.	10
4	717	"Forgive my colleague," said the merchant.	10
4	721	"Only for one," said the merchant.	10
4	727	"Greetings from Zarendargar," said the merchant.	10
4	732	"He said the trap would fail," said the merchant.	10
4	735	"Zarendargar had naught to do with that," said the merchant.	10
4	737	"He did not wish to be cheated of meeting you," said the merchant.	10
4	740	"Yes," said the merchant.	10
4	741	"But you," I said, "work only for Zarendargar?" "Yes," said the merchant.	10
4	745	"They are in a separate chain of command," said the merchant, "one emanating from the ships, one to which Zarendargar is subordinate".	10
4	748	"You had this carving," I asked, "from a red hunter, a bare-chested fellow, with rope and bow about his shoulders?" "Yes," said the merchant.	10
4	755	"Yes," said the merchant.	10
4	757	"Yes," said the merchant.	10
4	759	"What is that?" asked the merchant.	10
4	762	The merchant looked puzzled.	10
4	773	"Are you not going to kill us?" asked the merchant.	10
4	777	"It is for you," said the merchant.	10

Book 13. (33 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	255	Technically, according to Merchant Law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant Law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.	10
2	234	"I take him to be a merchant captain," said a man near me.	10
2	237	The fellow wore the white and gold of the merchant, beneath a seaman's aba.	10
2	238	It was not likely that a merchant would wear that garment unless he were entitled to it.	10
2	283	I knew Ulafi of Schendi only by reputation, as a shrewd merchant and captain.	10
3	42	I had then stayed for only two more sales, and had then left, those of a peasant girl, blond, from southwest of Ar, and a merchant's daughter from Asperiche.	10
3	43	The peasant girl brought eight tarsks; the merchant's daughter, to her indignation, brought only six.	10
3	69	I thought these might bring him out of hiding, with the Tahari ring, if I could not locate him by means of the blond Earth girl who had been purchased by Ulafi, captain of the Palms of Schendi, merchant, too, of that city.	10
4	385	This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function then as moats.	10
4	859	"I am a merchant," he explained.	10
4	957	Ulafi, merchant and captain, stood upon the deck of the stern castle.	10
6	161	To be sure, one merchant ship, like the Palms of Schendi, could have made little effective resistance to the ships which had just passed us, nor could she, though swift for a round ship, have outrun them.	10
6	193	He was an important merchant and captain in Schendi.	10
6	325	"That will lead to the general merchant wharves.	10
6	328	"Yes, from the merchant council," he said.	10
6	528	There are more than forty merchant wharves at Schendi, each one of which, extending into the harbor, accommodates four ships to a side.	10
6	557	Many merchant houses, from distant cities, have outlets or agents in Schendi.	10
6	611	Schendi's merchant council, I supposed, could not be blamed for wishing to exercise due caution that a similar calamity did not befall their own port.	10
7	24	Uchafu's market was back of the merchant wharves, nearer the harbor mouth.	10
7	106	We are only a merchant port".	10
7	203	"Oh, misery, for a poor merchant," said he.	10
7	205	Misery! But I cannot now renege upon my word, sadly enough, for I am a merchant of well-known integrity.	10
7	210	"But perhaps your reputation as a noble and honest merchant will yet in the long run redound to your profit as well as your honor".	10
8	122	She was skillful and, I suspected, from the use of the hands and beads, had been trained in Ianda, a merchant island north of Anango.	10
10	41	It was said that even members of the merchant council occasionally took Kipofu into their confidence.	10
11	233	I was purchased by the merchant, Ulafi, of Schendi.	10
11	252	"Except betray his merchant codes," said he who was called Kunguni.	10
15	288	There was also an officer there of the merchant council of Schendi.	10
15	289	"Is this he?" asked the officer of the merchant council.	10
18	153	"I bring you greetings from the merchant council of Teletus, that council sovereign in that free island.	10
18	156	We now wish, as doubtless will other merchant holdings, such as our sisters, Schendi and Bazi, to accord you our best wishes and to sue for your favor, that our shipping and merchants may be permitted to prove themselves of service in your future ventures".	10
27	154	Too, it is in accord with Merchant Law.	10
51	107	The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant Law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexual readiness, ...	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	782	I now knew who owned her, Oneander of Ar, a merchant who apparently did business in Vonda.	10
24	82	These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant Law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.	10
27	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant Law.	10
32	332	It was a sense of honor less germane to the accountant and merchant than to the peasant or warrior, less germane to the lamb than to the lion.	10
34	227	"I know her owner, a merchant, one called Oneander, of your own city, Glorious Ar".	10
34	256	"Oneander," said Tenalion, "is a salt and leather merchant.	10

Book 15. (37 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	10	"I have heard the topaz is being brought east," said a merchant, speaking to another merchant.	10
21	113	"And it is said, too," she whispered, coming close to me, the chain on her neck touching my chest, as she put her head over me, "that Glyco is not only a merchant but stands high in the merchant council of Port Cos".	10
22	255	"I have seen Glyco, a merchant, a high merchant, of Port Cos, these several days in earnest converse with you.	10
1	214	"He is a merchant," she whispered.	10
3	288	"It is dangerous for merchant caravans," a man was saying.	10
3	332	You know Zarto, the iron merchant?" "No," I said.	10
3	349	"Was one called Oneander, a salt and leather merchant, among them?" I asked.	10
4	42	"You cannot put me out!" Oneander of Ar, the salt and leather merchant, and some others, had worn masks at the loot camp outside the city of Vonda.	10
7	53	Another merchant brushed past me.	10
7	130	"Would you believe that she was once the daughter of a rich merchant?" he asked.	10
7	142	"The goods have already been sold," said the man, "at the merchant wharves".	10
16	26	"To what merchant?" I said, angrily.	10
19	29	"Two copper tarsks, one to each of you," said the merchant to two dock workers who stood nearby, "to apprehend and bind that fellow!" Swiftly the two dock workers set out after the thief.	10
19	30	Though men stood about none had attempted to steal the purse of the merchant, which lay nearby.	10
19	32	One of them handed the purse back to the merchant, who thanked him.	10
19	33	"What is your name, Fellow?" asked the merchant of me.	10
19	35	"Of Victoria?" asked the merchant.	10
19	56	The dock workers threw him to his knees before the merchant.	10
19	57	The merchant turned to me.	10
19	64	Several of the men about, striking their shoulders in the Gorean fashion, applauded the merchant.	10
19	75	The merchant then looked at the thief.	10
19	77	"Please, Master," said the thief, "do not deliver me to praetors!" "Are you so fond of your hands?" asked the merchant.	10
19	85	"No!" "What do you suggest?" asked the merchant of me.	10
19	87	"No, please, Master!" whined the thief to the merchant.	10
19	88	"He is yours," said the merchant.	10
19	96	"Surely you are a guardsman," said the merchant.	10
19	100	"You are magnanimous," said the merchant.	10
19	103	The merchant laughed.	10
19	106	"One thing more, Fellow," said the merchant.	10
19	112	"My thanks, Fellow," said the merchant, and, smiling, turned about and made his way back among the boxes and bales on the crowded wharf.	10
20	41	"Kliomenes is a merchant," she told me.	10
21	80	"Glyco, the merchant of Port Cos, has spoken freely of your bravery on the wharves, in your recovery of his purse".	10
25	49	"I have spoken to Glyco, Merchant of Port Cos," said Callimachus.	10
25	96	"Glyco, to whom I have spoken, being a merchant of Port Cos, can meet openly with Callisthenes without arousing suspicion.	10
29	25	"The matter was important to the Merchant Council," said Callisthenes.	10
29	42	As a merchant I think a freer trade lies in our best interest.	10
29	148	Callisthenes scowled at the portly merchant.	10

Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	19	Both had been merchant ships, acting in support of the ships of Port Cos.	10
9	277	"I was sold to a merchant from Tetrapoli," she said.	10
17	738	The palanquin of Oneander, a salt and leather merchant of Ar, had been passing.	10
20	19	"They are beautiful," said Glyco, the merchant of Port Cos to whom we owed so much.	10
20	23	Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his slave, Florence.	10
20	1714	I would not trade this lovely token of what I am for all the treasures in the house of Croesus, or the warehouses of Mintar, merchant of Ar.	10
21	593	The slave of a high-caste Builder, for example, is likely to look down on the slave of a wealthy merchant, who may have a hundred times the riches.	10

Book 17. (20 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	107	They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant Law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.	10
2	110	There is a joke in the city that Port Kar must have the greatest merchant fleet on Gor, greater than even those of Cos and Tyros combined, given the frequency with which our corsairs encounter the vessels of alleged compatriots.	10
2	114	The safest course for a merchant captain to follow, whether of Port Kar or not, if he is not moving in convoy, with attendant ramships, is to avoid all contact with other vessels between ports.	10
2	199	The merchant was chaining his girls on the broad, tiered, cement display shelves.	10
3	1	I Receive Information; I Will Travel Northward "Perhaps this one?" asked the merchant.	10
3	5	"She is not without her attractions," said the merchant.	10
3	17	"I think he has ventured north, along the perimeter," said the merchant.	10
3	84	The merchant regarded the girl at the wall.	10
3	108	"Excellent!" said the merchant.	10
3	123	"Have they names?" I asked the merchant.	10
3	124	"No," said the merchant, "I have not yet named them".	10
5	112	"We are sustained by the merchant council of Port Olni," said the woman.	10
8	24	The girl usually hopes that her master will pay enough for her to convince him that she is of at least minimal value, and will not pay so much that he will be angry with the merchant, for in such a case he is almost certain to take his dissatisfaction out on her lovely hide.	10
12	162	"A poor bargain from the point of view of a merchant," I observed.	10
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant Law".	10
13	671	"Merchant Law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".	10
14	116	I knew one of his names among the red savages was Wopeton, which means Trader, or Merchant.	10
14	509	He was, after all, was he not, a merchant? Margaret was jerked to her knees and the Dust Leg tied his beaded collar on her throat.	10
15	78	This is the word in both Dust Leg and Kaiila for a trader, or merchant.	10
19	342	"I have called you 'Wopeton,' or 'Trader' or 'Merchant'.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	130	The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant Law, for obvious reasons.	10
2	135	Grunt, of course, was a merchant.	10

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	337	"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".	10
3	338	"Merchant law?" I asked.	10
4	23	A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him.	10
4	25	The bowl upon inspection, the merchant becoming suspicious as to the weights involved, had turned out to be merely plated.	10
17	301	A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar.	10
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of Merchant Law that slaves be marked.	10

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	290	This being the case it is interesting to note that one actor's Merchant is not the same Merchant as that of another actor.	10
2	357	Soon he is demonstrating, even, with caresses and kisses, all in the name of the merchant, just how skillful the merchant would be.	10
1	31	Sometimes, however, to distinguish it from differing forms of the game, it is spoken of as Merchant Kaissa, from the role of the Merchants in making it the official form of Kaissa for the fairs, Player Kaissa, from the role of the Players in its codification, or the Kaissa of En'Kara, for it was off...	10
1	897	Procopius Minor is not to be confused with Procopius Major, who is an important merchant in Port Kar, one with interests not only in taverns but in paper, hardware, wool and salt.	10
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.	10
2	283	For example, the Pompous Merchant and the Wily Peasant are well known.	10
2	325	Chino, usually the servant of the Comic Father or the Merchant, is willowy and mischievous, with a black half-mask, with slanted eye holes, with red-and-yellow diamond-figured tights and pullover.	10
2	347	In this one the principal characters were the Golden Courtesan, Chino, the Merchant and the Pedant.	10
2	348	The Merchant was played by the harassed, paunchy-looking fellow I had seen earlier.	10
2	350	In brief, the Merchant, intending to visit the Golden Courtesan, sends Chino for a love potion.	10
2	352	The Merchant takes the potion and visits the Golden Courtesan, with Chino in attendance.	10
2	353	Predictably, the Merchant must continually interrupt his initial advances which, of course, are bumbling and clumsy, and not much to the liking of the courtesan, to rush hastily to the side of the stage where, conveniently, may be found a great pot.	10
2	354	Chino, meanwhile, exaggeratedly, in these interstices, is assuring the courtesan of the merchant's prowess as a lover.	10
2	355	He is so successful that the courtesan soon begins to pant and call the merchant, who, eagerly, rushes back, only in a moment, unfortunately, to be forced to beat a new retreat to the pot.	10
2	360	His conversation with the merchant provides ample opportunity for double-entendres and talking at cross-purposes.	10
2	361	The physician, in departing, puzzled that the potion has not yet taken effect, assures the merchant, sitting on the great pot, that he should allow it a little more time, that doubtless he will soon feel its effects.	10
2	362	The merchant, however, convinced that this is not his day, now hobbles home, clutching the great pot.	10
2	376	The paunchy fellow, his belly swinging, now out of character as the merchant, was informing the audience that a new round of farces, all different, would be performed within the Ahn.	10
4	176	Finally a large force of mercenaries, in the hire of the merchant caste, in a campaign that lasted several months, put an end to the spurious reign of Clearchus, driving him from the forest and scattering his men.	10
6	18	"Though I be impoverished and am clad in rags, in naught but the meanness of tatters," said the Brigella to Boots Tarsk-Bit, he on the stage with her, he in the guise of a pompous, puffing, lecherous merchant, "know, and know well, noble sir, that I am a free woman!" This announcement, predictably, ...	10
6	42	"Are you truly free?" inquired Boots Tarsk-Bit, with exaggerated incredulity, in the guise of the merchant, of his Brigella.	10
6	53	"Generally I do not see so much of them," Boots admitted, as the merchant.	10
6	156	It would be like trying to get along without a comic merchant, a Brigella, a Bina, a Lecchio or a Chino.	10
6	534	"That way," he said, "they may take you for a mere slave, perhaps not worth the time it might take to put you in a noose and conduct you to a sales point, and me for a poor merchant, perhaps not worth robbing.	10
6	595	"Look," cried Boots to the Brigella, in his guise of a merchant.	10
6	768	"Will you not then accept me as a free companion, noble sir?" called the Brigella to Boots, in his guise as the merchant.	10
7	109	One attempts to obtain a finder's commission from the merchant which he then, of course, turns back to his friend, the buyer.	10
9	130	"I suppose it does mark me as a free woman," she said, "and in that sense might perhaps raise my price somewhat in case they were readying me for sale to a slave merchant".	10
9	132	Doubtless, too, it would give the merchant pleasure to remove it from you in your assessment, thereby revealing your beauty, that then of a potential slave".	10
21	456	He was not, as far as I knew, a member of the city administration nor did he hold, as far as I could tell, any official position or rank in the army, or the civic or merchant guard, of Brundisium.	10

Book 21. (12 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	87	A merchant on his way to the gate of Tesius paused, to gaze upon her.	10
1	150	"Good," said the merchant, turning away.	10
3	224	Long ago I had ridden guard in a caravan of Mintar, a merchant of Ar.	10
6	177	"Probably you are a merchant, too," I said.	10
11	5	"I am a merchant, from Tabor," he said.	10
11	7	Indeed, it was the merchant from Tabor, that portly fellow who had been so inflexibly and boorishly determined to retrieve a gift, one which he had bestowed, of his own free will, as I had pointed out to him, on one of the fellows traveling with me, Hurtha, as I recalled.	10
11	55	The Tabor merchant was the fourth fellow who had come by to look me up.	10
11	57	"To me," said the merchant, "it seems merely strange, or perhaps, at best, unmitigated trash, but then I am a simple man of business, and not a scribe.	10
11	84	"Thank you," said the merchant.	10
16	1328	"Or a wagon number," I said, "if it was a large caravan, or, more likely, that of a merchant or company with many wagons".	10
19	255	He, appointed through the influence of Cernus, who was soon to ascend the throne of Ar, had replaced the venerated hero, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius of Ar, who had earlier expressed reservations concerning the investiture of Cernus, a merchant and slaver, in the caste of warriors.	10
24	408	"What is your business?" "I am a merchant of sorts," he said.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.	10
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	49	"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a...	10
6	881	Too, he did not seem to have the refinement of a high merchant nor the roughness of the drover.	10
24	569	A Cosian merchant in the crowd cried out in anger.	10

Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	790	With his coiled whip Philebus, expansively, indicated the girls, like a merchant displaying wares, or a confectioner displaying candies, and, in a sense, I suppose, he was both.	10
1	1169	"You are a merchant," he said.	10
3	124	I would again assume the guise of a merchant.	10
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".	10
26	74	I had heard, incidentally, a few months ago, in Port Cos, from a Tharnan silver merchant, that Lara had abdicated.	10
26	78	As nearly as I could determine from the reports of the silver merchant Lara's abdication was not forced, nor even the result of extreme political pressures brought on her, but a voluntary act, one apparently regarded by her as being not only in the best interests of the city but in her own best inte...	10
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.	10
47	8	The fellow was ahead of me tearing garments from pegs and dragging down ropes of clothes, trampling them underfoot, much to the consternation of the merchant.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
80	290	Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant Law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communities.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	12	It was a small thing, of course, a single voyage, but it is not unusual that the explorer is followed by the Merchant, just as it is not impossible that the Merchant might be followed by the soldier.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	363	"Merchant! Merchant!" cried the free woman.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	44	"Could you recognize, again," I asked, "the small goods, trinkets and such, which you received in trade from the confederate of the raiders, the spy and scout of the intruders, he a merchant or in the guise of a merchant, and which were soon stolen back by the raiders?" "Some, I suppose," he said.	10