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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	13	It might have been an alphabetic monogram or perhaps a mere delight to the artist.	10
3	100	It was not mere political theory he spoke to me.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	94	"Did you, Oh Dark Brother of the Night, think to keep me from Ko-ro-ba?" How absurd it seemed to me that a mere sleen should have stood between me and my city.	10
8	77	I wanted no more of the havoc I had wreaked earlier by the mere mention of the name of Ko-ro-ba.	10
21	92	In theory, if not in practice, when the girl finds herself branded like an animal, finds her fair skin marked by the iron of a master, she cannot fail, somehow, in the deepest levels of her thought, to regard herself as something which is owned, as mere property, as something belonging to the brute ...	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	94	It is said that the Priest-Kings know whatever transpires on their world and that the mere lifting of their hand can summon all the powers of the universe.	10
10	112	This seemed to me significant, far more significant than the mere fact that a Priest-King might not understand a human laugh.	10
16	163	"Was the fact that I was placed in the chamber of the girl Vika of Treve considered?" "Sarm suspects," said Misk, "and it was he who arranged your quarters, in order that you might succumb to her charms, that she might enthrall you, that she might bend you helplessly, pliantly to her will and whim a...	10
30	55	I conceded the point in silence, amazed at the restorative powers of Priest-Kings, those redoubtable golden foes against which mere men had dared to pit themselves.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	383	"Is it other," she asked, "than a mere necklace of diamonds?" Aphris of Turia was no fool.	10
26	528	Well did I recall how Kamchak had made Albrecht of the Kassars pay dearly for the return of his little darling, Tenchika, and how he had roared with laughter because the Kassar had paid such a price, obviously having allowed himself to care for a mere slave girl, and she a Turian at that! "I would g...	10

Book 5. (11 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	298	"True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".	10
5	285	In a short time she will easily read the marks as words, and not as mere patterns associated with arbitrary sounds.	10
5	654	"What you mistook for daintiness was mere neatness, simple, common everyday neatness".	10
5	719	"How could the knot of a mere girl, and one who is only slave, compare with the knot of a man, and one who is free, and even of the Caste of Warriors?" "Then you acknowledge my knots are superior to yours in all respects?" I asked.	10
13	57	I knew this game of bath girls, as though they, mere slaves, would dare to truly flee from one who pursued them, and I laughed, and she, too, sensing my understanding, laughed.	10
14	22	Women, I suspected, even proud, beautiful, intelligent women like Elizabeth Cardwell, secretly wish their men to be strong, and upon occasion to prove it to them, commanding them as mere females, giving them no choice but to do precisely as he wishes.	10
20	199	"Would you dare to contend with a mere slave girl," I asked, "one who has learned the game but a day or two ago, who has played but an Ahn or so?" "Whom do you mean?" inquired Cernus.	10
20	299	"Tal," responded Cernus, seeming somehow in awe before this mere boy.	10
24	106	At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...	10
24	415	I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath.	10
24	510	I looked boldly upon her, for a Warrior does not avert his eyes from the beauty of a woman, particularly that of a mere slave.	10

Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	35	Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...	10
9	306	I found great pleasure in seeing the proud Telima, who had been my Mistress, as mere Kettle Slave.	10
10	61	Henrius Sevarius was said to be a mere boy, and his Ubarate one which was administered by his regent, Claudius, once of Tyros.	10
15	609	How rich a joke it was, to have enslaved the girl who would have been Ubara of Cos, to have put her to work in my kitchens, to have given the use of her to a mere slave boy! This story would soon be told in all the ports of Thassa and all the cities of Gor! How shamed would be Tyros and Cos, enemies...	10
17	322	I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.	10
18	90	"She is a mere slave," he said.	10
18	92	"And," said he, defiantly, "a man does not concern himself for a mere female slave".	10
18	390	I recalled once, long ago, being puzzled that she, though a mere rence girl, had been literate.	10
18	682	"You seem disturbed," said he, "at the sight of a mere slave boy".	10

Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	109	A few days later I was invited to two agencies for interviews, which, as I expected, were mere formalities.	10
4	141	"You think it was simply your misfortune, a mere coincidence, that you stumbled into our camp?" he asked.	10
9	49	I had been gagged as one might have gagged a mere slave! Verna's knife was again in its sheath.	10
9	491	I knew then that I might indeed figure in transactions, and knew that I would do so as mere property.	10
10	193	I had toyed with the idea of granting it, not for the hundred dollars, of course, but for piquant frisson involved, the tingling, flattering little thrill of such a transaction, me, Elinor Brinton, selling a kiss, the surprising, unexpected, naughty adventure of it, of pretending, for a moment, that...	10
10	567	Surely the men of Earth would have given almost anything for a mere glimpse of me disrobed, let alone for the unbelievable ecstasy of taking me in their arms! "Am I not beautiful enough, Master?" I asked.	10
11	386	How I hated Inge! Could she not see that these things were innocent, that they were mere accidents, that I had merely tripped! But, of course, I also mistrusted the guard.	10
12	147	How straight walked the huntsmen, how broad their backs, how straight their gaze and high their head, how large their hands, how keen their gaze! They were masters! They had made slaves even of men! What would a mere woman be in their hands? I detested them.	10
13	1033	How could I, a mere girl, have hoped to elude him, such a man, such a huntsman? "You saw me in the pens of Ko-ro-ba?" I asked.	10
14	395	They professed to approve of this degradation appropriately inflicted on mere slaves, but it was also said that they envied the slaves, the lightness of their garments, the air upon their bodies, the wonderful freedom accorded their limbs, so different from the heavy, bulky, confining layers of thei...	10
14	430	Too, of course, the capture of a free woman of the enemy is regarded as quite a coup, certainly much more so than carrying off a mere slave, unless perhaps the slave is a high slave.	10
14	545	"It is common for them to view us as mere women, and see us in terms of their sport and pleasure".	10
14	552	I did not wish to be a mere sexual object! But I felt my throat.	10
14	619	It was superior to any I had ever worn on Earth, when I had been wealthy and could command the customized attentions of the finest continental perfumers, and yet here, on this barbaric planet, it was used without thought to adorn the body of Elinor Brinton, a mere slave girl.	10
15	190	Once Rask of Treve, from the saddle, looked directly at me, finding me among the mere work slaves, in their work tunics.	10
15	901	Free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten.	10
15	904	Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating.	10
16	20	The other girls sensed this and, pleased, accepted me among them, as another mere slave, neither better nor worse than they themselves.	10
16	34	I pitied them in my way, for they were mere ignorant girls, white-silk girls.	10
16	329	"Can it be," he asked, "that I, Rask of Treve, care for a mere slave?" "I love you, Master," I cried, "I love you, I love you!" He did not let me press my lips to his.	10
16	465	It was much honor that he did me, a mere female slave.	10
17	62	Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must...	10
17	87	Rask of Treve was struggling with himself, castigating himself, denouncing himself, I think, fighting not to care for me, a mere slave.	10
17	158	But I feared, more and more now, day by day, despite my great love for him, to become more to him than his mere property, more than his simple possession, more than his simple recreation and plaything, more than merely another meaningless Sa-Fora, a "daughter of the chain," more than merely another ...	10
17	481	And surely Rask, a captain of Treve, cannot bring the tarn cavalries of Treve to distant Port Kar, for a mere slave girl, and, too, such action would mean long and bloody war.	10

Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	320	We were a mere ten pasangs from the exchange point where we had, the preceding day, obtained two panther girls.	10
8	17	It would gratify me, and give them a most humiliating memory to carry with them into their slavery, that they, the entire band, had been taken by a mere handful of males.	10
11	708	It may well have excited her, for she was a mere slave, and belonged to one of the men present.	10
12	110	Too, many Ubars and Administrators might not wish to ally their house with that of a mere merchant.	10
15	95	How furious they were, proud panther girls, to be led into captivity, helplessly, by a mere slave girl.	10
15	777	No longer would she be a mere four-gold-piece girl, standard merchandise on a Gorean slave block.	10
19	119	It was I who had used her, a mere slave, insolently, before returning her, with the drugged wine, to the camp of Sarus.	10
22	708	Their actions and behavior, thus, though not independent of certain long-range environmental and sexual relationships, cannot be understood in terms of mere responses to the immediately present environment.	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	137	Samos of Port Kar had purchased Talena, as a mere slave, from two panther girls, obtaining her with ease in this manner while I had risked my life in the forest.	10
8	99	The haughty wench would rob us of our entire stores! None of that richness, I knew, would grace the body, perhaps the head, with a delicate touch behind the ears, or the neck or breasts, of a mere bondmaid.	10
14	135	Mere humans, they dared not set themselves against Kurii.	10
18	376	Now he would see that she served him completely, deliciously, helplessly, and as a mere bondmaid, an article of his property, his to do with as he wished, and perhaps serve him as only one of several such lowly wenches.	10
18	510	"After the contest of beauty, in which, through the cheating of the judges, I lost, I was sold to the agent of another, a much greater one than a mere Rolf of Red Fjord.	10

Book 10. (20 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	615	How pleased she was! Think of how she, a mere slave, has been instrumental in your fate, how she, a mere slave, has helped to bring low the fearsome Tarl Cabot, she who helped to bring him to his present plight, he helpless in the chains of an outwitted fool".	10
1	284	Had she knelt at the bars, knees thrust through, her body, her face, tear-stained, pressed against them, arms extended, letting her arms be switched for the mere chance of possibly touching the guard's body, then, perhaps, she would have been hot enough.	10
1	298	Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...	10
1	523	Even those for a fee delivering her to the house of Samos would have considered her only another wench, mere slave property.	10
1	812	It's mere representation, as earlier indicated, covered several square feet of the floor.	10
2	159	For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...	10
5	206	"No!" "On such a girl," I said, "brand and collar are no more than emblems, mere tokens, proclaiming on her body the truth of her, the deepest truth of her, which no longer may she conceal".	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	731	None but its master should it have permitted its saddle! Of what value is a tarn of war who permits a stranger, even a girl, a mere wench, to ascend to its saddle? I had driven it away.	10
7	613	"Think often of she who, though a mere slave, collaborated in your defeat, she who eagerly did her part to send you to the pits of Klima.	10
10	357	"How could a mere female slave, who is nothing, do that?" I asked.	10
11	92	Then, after the stars would be high for an Ahn or so, he would, suddenly, laughing, seize the girl by the arms and throw her on her back on the mats, thrust up her dress and rape her as the mere slave she was.	10
24	38	What a splendid room for a mere slave, I thought.	10
24	120	With what contempt, and scorn, and triumph she had looked upon me, a mere male slave, chained and bound for Klima, below her.	10
24	818	"Many of the happiest women I have known on Gor," she whispered, "have been mere slave girls".	10
24	905	"You have bound me as though I might be no more to you than a mere slave!" she said, angrily.	10
26	606	"You are mistaken," said I, "mere girl of Earth, pretty slave girl".	10
26	623	You cannot treat me like a mere Gorean slave girl.	10
26	651	She is not a mere Gorean girl, a simple, vital, half-animal thing.	10
26	795	I think that the proud woman of Earth had now come to a new understanding of herself, that she now understood herself as what she now was, a mere slave.	10

Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	413	It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...	10
2	579	Did he think I was an animal, a mere pretty animal? Did he not know that I was a person! That I was a person of station and class, that I was an excellent student at an elite girls' college, that I was an English major, that I was a poetess! At one point, turning my head, thrusting two fingers of hi...	10
3	741	I had never kissed a boy on Earth with the helplessness and passion that I bestowed upon the mere goblet of my Gorean captor.	10
4	240	If the master does not know why the smallest movement of his girl, clad in what he thought was a mere discipline rag, almost drives him out of his wits with pleasure, that is all right.	10
4	477	I was a nameless slave girl on an alien world, at the mercy of primitive warriors in a barbarian camp, an object for their sport, a lovely, two-legged plaything, a mere prize, in their cruel games.	10
4	624	Men tend to enjoy having their girls close at hand, you see, perhaps unobtrusively to one side, but in a place from which they may be easily summoned, and easily looked upon with pleasure, for the mere sight of a slave girl gives great pleasure to men, who in their way are glorious, dominating beast...	10
5	54	"Insolent," said he to himself, as though thinking, "that a mere slave should be placed in such garments".	10
5	629	Obviously I was nothing to my master! I had been used to create a diversion, had been employed as a mere pawn.	10
9	584	It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my ...	10
11	428	"A mere jangle of slave bells and you are ready for the arms of a man".	10
13	267	"But can the house let this little beauty slip its collar for a mere fourteen tarsks? Say, no, Noble Sirs!" "Fifteen," said a man.	10
13	330	"It seems," said the auctioneer, "that we must let this little beauty go for a mere twenty-one copper tarsks".	10
21	30	Did I not know I was a slave girl? What did I expect? To be treated as a free woman? How vast a thing, how vicious and disproportionate it was that I, a mere slave girl, for so small a fault, if fault it was, had sentenced him to the tortures of the galleys.	10
27	15	"You are a mere slave," he said.	10
27	655	Yet you, a mere girl, would conquer me with a smile and a tear".	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	224	Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a...	10
6	341	Indeed, you may be slain upon the mere whim of a master, should it please him".	10
9	71	I used her as a mere dupe in my scheme.	10
10	190	And had she not succeeded where mere men had failed? Muchly then did she relish the sight of Tarl Cabot, it seemed, he, occasional champion of Priest-Kings, sometimes foe of Kurii, at the mercy of her guards, and in chains she doubtless regarded as her own.	10
21	302	You would remain in the background, a mere instrument to serve us.	10
24	286	Slavery is not a mere condition; it is a kind of life.	10
24	386	"That you are a slave makes you additionally stimulating to the male," I said, "aside from your mere beauty and intelligence".	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	415	Yet, as I regarded her, I saw more in her body and beauty than the mere intelligence of a collared slave.	10
8	74	What if the beggar had made a serious purchase of the girl on behalf of the tavern keeper? What if she were merely being delivered here to be trained as a mere paga girl? I glanced around.	10
13	329	"What are you going to do with me—truly?" "I think I shall turn you into an enstormed, ecstatic slave, an interlude of recreation, a mere, meaningless instrument of my sport, a master's submitted, writhing plaything".	10
18	68	The next fellow was an actual thief, a mere boy, who had stolen vegetables.	10
23	175	"I did not think a mere village would content you," I said.	10
34	330	A man is much more likely to be intensely fond of a girl he owns than of a free individual toward whom he stands in a mere contractual relationship.	10

Book 14. (26 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	50	What a bounder, and cad, I was! Was I so primitive and coarse, so deplorably insensitive, so unimproved, so unreformed, so masculine, as to relish the mere audition of the word 'Master' on the lips of a beautiful woman? Yet I could not repress my envy of the heavy man.	10
2	316	What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...	10
4	273	"Not with mere conditioning techniques," she said.	10
4	308	"How foolishly I have spoken to you," she said, "a mere slave!" She then turned to the two girls.	10
6	167	"What a slut she is," said one of them, "to be excited by a mere male slave".	10
7	52	I was eager to see this world to which I, a man of Earth, had been brought as a mere slave.	10
7	438	Yet I would be remiss did I not mention that even the most vital, animate slave, delightedly conversing with her master, knows that at a mere snap of his fingers she may have to tear aside her garments and serve him instantly as the lowliest, the most perfect, and the most abject of chain sluts.	10
7	462	But, too, of course, doubtless unfortunately, many slave girls are kept by men who are harsh and cold to them, and who despise them as mere slaves.	10
7	469	You love him!" Let them hope, however, that despite their lowliness and unworthiness, as mere slaves, meaningless properties that may be bought and sold, that their diligence, their devotion and lengthy, attentive labors may win for them at last a grudging smile, a commendatory, half-reluctant, roug...	10
8	22	Yet I think the tears were from frustration and misery, and from my shame, that I knew, in my heart, that I well deserved my beating, rather than from the mere pain of the harsh strokes.	10
11	114	It was then, of course, my own name, and not a mere slave name, put upon me by the whim of Masters".	10
11	566	"Yet doubtless," I said, "it affords your modesty more comfort than might a mere collar".	10
12	151	I had thought all knew that the men of Earth were mere slaves.	10
18	233	How could she, in such a situation, call attention to the fact that she had been inspected, and as a woman, by one who was a mere slave.	10
18	300	"It is nothing whatsoever to me," said the Lady Florence to Kenneth, "whether this slave, a mere slave, is or is not used in the stable bouts.	10
19	189	For some reason, Telitsia would often so address me, though I were naught but as she, a mere slave.	10
19	273	"Are you not now a mere stable slut?" he asked.	10
19	277	I am now only a mere stable slut".	10
22	294	I wondered what would have been her reaction had she been beaten not by a mere woman, but by a man, with a man's strength.	10
23	117	I, a mere slave, use her former silk slave as my own silk slave! Thus do I demean her!" "I did not earlier this week," I said, "steal a kiss from Tuka nor did I, two days later, with two hands, intimately caress the leg of Peliope near the first feed shed".	10
27	344	"He looked upon me and could not even tell the difference between the Lady Florence of Vonda and a mere slave girl".	10
27	396	"How could a mere legal convention make me a slave," she asked.	10
27	516	"Yes," I said, "you are a mere prisoner".	10
30	31	' But, as suggested, few, if any, masters will permit their slave to use their name to them, for would the name of a free man not then be belittled, or soiled, if it should be touched by the tongue and lips of a mere slave? This caveat does not obtain, of course, under situations where one might, sa...	10
32	241	You caressed me into submission, as though I might have been a mere slave! You caressed me yours!" "Certainly you have learned to juice and squirm, and kick and buck, nicely," I said.	10
34	166	It would probably be hard for a woman of Earth to understand how a mere slave girl, nothing but a commodity in a snatch of silk and a light, lovely, narrow, locked collar, could be so admired and prized.	10

Book 15. (16 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	160	"Yes," she said, "only now Gorean masters have put it on me, by their will, as a mere slave name".	10
1	261	"Yes, Master!" "You are a mere slave, aren't you?" I asked.	10
2	91	"You had an assistant," I said, "a superb actress, who, pretending to be a mere Earth-girl slave, even to the collar and Ta-Teera, well prepared me for my sale in your market".	10
2	169	"I beg it as a slave!" "But that is lower than a mere slut," I said.	10
9	73	She had gone for a mere fifteen copper tarsks.	10
14	196	This understanding, of course, goes far beyond the mere pain of a particular episode.	10
21	223	I had often treated her, thoroughly and completely, as the mere slave she was.	10
21	250	"Thank you for talking with a mere slave," she whispered.	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	313	"And then later," she said, "when your appetites grew again upon you, you took me as a mere slave, with brutality".	10
23	184	"What if one here should turn traitor, and later identify and betray our guest, say, for gold? Or, what if his features might be seen by a slave, say, a mere serving wench, who might later, herself being sold or given away, inadvertently, by her reaction, give suspicion as to his identity?" Kliomene...	10
24	219	Who knows through what sales or changings of hands a girl who is mere property such as I might pass? You cannot risk that I might, someday, somewhere, if only by inadvertence, perhaps by a startled cry or gesture, or a too-eager licking at your feet, compromise your secret".	10
24	243	But why would this be? What could I, a mere slave, have to say that might interest you?" She pulled at the cord loops.	10
24	404	Even children would know us as mere slaves, for, categorically, and legally, that is what we would be.	10
25	7	She withdrew to the far side of the room and knelt there, back on her heels, knees wide, as befitted the sort of slave she was, a mere pleasure slave.	10
26	64	"So the proud Lady Florence of Vonda is now a mere pleasure slave".	10

Book 16. (33 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	209	"You are a mere slave," I said, "who must crawl to any man".	10
10	11	Preferably, of course, a stripped free woman hangs at the prow of the ship, that the degree of the victory may be made even more keen and manifest, but we were forced to make do with mere slaves.	10
11	18	She was now the mere slave, Florence.	10
11	29	Did Miles of Vonda seek to conceal from me his affection for a mere slave? It was obvious that he cherished that slave.	10
17	56	The meeting, surely, was one of mere chance.	10
17	905	The woman was obviously only a branded, stripped slave, and a mere Coin Girl at that.	10
18	79	Slaves, of course, being mere articles of property, are not entitled to privacy.	10
18	391	In such a world, where he is seldom granted more than the appearances of women, it is natural for him to become, sadly, preoccupied with mere appearances.	10
18	415	On the other hand, there have been cases when a free woman, boldly, has donned such a garment and dared to walk in the streets and upon the bridges, masquerading as a mere slave upon an errand for her master.	10
18	454	The same girl whom he bought as a mere piece of slave meat from a sales block, for his pleasure, we shall suppose, when brought home, and put in a collar at his feet, turns out to be a highly intelligent, sophisticated, vulnerable and delicate organism.	10
18	455	In short we shall suppose that he discovers that he has purchased, as is often the case, not a mere slave, but a treasure.	10
18	457	He will want to talk with her, and listen to her, and know her with a depth and fullness far beyond anything that might be accorded to a mere contractual partner.	10
19	22	The Gorean slave girl, incidentally, can be terrorized by the mere thought that she might be sold to a free woman.	10
19	379	It would not do for her for them to know that she, that lofty creature—mysterious in her robes and veils, perhaps known to them only as a proud slut being regally borne in a curtained palanquin, or as a shy, gentle creature absorbed in perusing scrolls in a library, or as a mere figure attend...	10
19	394	To be sure, they are likely only to be mere slaves like herself.	10
19	961	She might end up as a kettle-and-mat girl or a mere serving slave for women her arid, linear, mechanistic culture has led her to believe are less attractive than she.	10
19	1113	After a time, it is not unusual for the Ubara, on her belly before her master, given an Ehn in which to speak, to beg, in lieu of the slavery of the she-quadruped, that she be taught the salacious arts and lascivious dances of the female slave, that she may then be less a mere amusement for her mast...	10
20	322	It is a well-known fact that the mere sight of chains can make many women, even free women, sexually uneasy.	10
20	607	Some women, sensitive to the fact that their modesty has now been so violently compromised, and so unworthily, as a result of mere fear, suppose then that they might as well be in a collar.	10
20	608	How many have seen their legs? Has he, the brute, or he, the monster, or he, a mere, idle, casual appraiser of her limbs, or who? And not unoften, it seems, if only to conceal their shame, they begin, as it is said, "to court the collar".	10
20	956	How long she has waited, in cruel frustration, unfulfilled and lonely, in her cell for just such a moment, that precious opportunity in which she, a mere slave, may be permitted to display and present herself for the consideration of her master.	10
20	1278	"But it was not a mere entertainment.	10
20	1589	How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him ...	10
20	1824	The danger, of course, is that this animal, this mere marketable property, is likely to have the most profound and dramatic appeal a female can have to a man, that of the slave girl to the master.	10
20	1828	Do not yield! Do not weaken! See that she is never in doubt as to who it is who owns her! Keep her in perfect subjection! And so he fears coming to care for her, a mere slave.	10
20	1836	Has she not broken their implicit pact, uttered that which is unspeakable, neither to acknowledge that love could exist between such disparate beings as they, a free man, a lordly fellow, one with a Home Stone, and a mere beast, an animal, collared, a degraded, meaningless slave.	10
20	1837	What audacity she had to express her love, that of a mere slave, for a free man! Surely he should bracelet her small wrists behind her back, and hood her, and leash her, and then lead her hastily, angrily, to the nearest market.	10
20	1839	She is only a slave! How insulting, to suggest that he, a free man, might care for a mere slave! He can buy a dozen like her in the market! But perhaps he accepts her as his love slave, and she, to her joy, realizes he is now her love master.	10
20	1844	Indeed, many masters, perhaps distrusting their feelings, or overreacting to a perceived weakness on their part, or embarrassed by their feelings for one who is a mere slave, or feeling that much should be required of a love slave, or that this attention honors her, may increase their demands upon h...	10
20	1896	"You took me in the Street of the Writhing Slave as a Coin Girl, a mere rent girl, a street girl, a gutter wench, and you have taken me, I a helpless slave, I not knowing you, in the guise of my unknown Gorean master, but this will be the first time that you have had me, so to speak, in your own nam...	10
20	1899	Put me under your lust, as a mere object!" I regarded her.	10
21	442	"But how arrogant, how lordly, how imperious of you to put it on me now, as a mere slave name!" "Oh?" I asked.	10
21	681	"Do not forget that you wear that name now as a mere slave name".	10

Book 17. (20 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	34	The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world.	10
9	92	Yet, now, she, like the others, served as a mere pack animal, one of the beasts of his coffle, bearing his goods.	10
9	97	Slave girls are beautiful, even those who must serve as mere beasts of burden.	10
12	179	"For the time you may account yourselves mere prisoners," said Grunt.	10
13	209	"But your penetration is, obviously," I said, "only a mere technicality".	10
13	535	How terrible it would be to confuse a mere slave, a lowly slave, with a glorious free woman.	10
13	615	I lie beside you and am clothed in almost nothing, the brief, flimsy tunic of a mere slave.	10
13	791	"You speak of me as though I might be an object," she said, "a mere commodity".	10
13	912	I crouched down beside the naked body of the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, who had been a debutante, now that of a mere slave, supine on my blankets.	10
13	1115	"You are a mere slave," I said.	10
13	1116	"It is simple to use a mere slave well".	10
13	1332	"You may find this hard to grasp now, but most girls, as you will learn, once they discover its authenticity and inescapability, blossom joyously, submitted, in their bondage; in it they occupy their place in nature; in it, subject to the authority and power of strong men, owned and mastered uncompr...	10
13	1376	"It seems strange to think of serving a love master with the same proficiencies with which I must serve any other man, as a mere slave," she said.	10
14	467	No, she had not been brought along, marched into the Barrens, as a mere beast of burden.	10
15	178	It is not unusual for a woman, at any rate, who has looked into the eyes of a man in that fashion to discover, later, that she is looking into his eyes in quite a different fashion, that whereas she once may have regarded him directly, and insolently, she now, perhaps kneeling stripped at his feet, ...	10
17	343	In performing such intimate acts, and on the mere beast of the master, the humbled suppliant, the captured girl, acknowledges to both herself and others, nonrepudiably and publicly, that she is proposing herself as a serious candidate for bondage, that she is begging to be enslaved.	10
17	458	A mere string of hide may serve, of course, as a slave collar.	10
17	754	You can imagine my terrors at the mere thought of finding myself so helplessly belonging to a man, so helplessly in his power, so helplessly subject to his mastery and domination".	10
19	165	She knew then that she, a mere slave, was the object of strong desire.	10
19	538	I was to be bound, and put on a tether, like the mere animal I now was, only a slave.	10

Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	325	They were desirable and beautiful; this was not because of their mere nudity but rather, I think, because of something else, something which had taken place within them, something psychological; this might perhaps best be characterized as a surrender to their womanhood; in any event they were now no...	10
1	119	The mere thought of the kailiauk can inspire awe in them, and pleasure and excitement.	10
7	141	That is an emotion which would be more appropriate in a free woman, one, say, stripped, and unjustifiably beaten, as though she might be a mere slave.	10
7	768	"Then you admit that you are a mere female," said Bloketu.	10
9	345	"To be sure," I said, "I see that you have powers which mere Millicent did not".	10
9	593	"That is kind," she said, "truly kind, but I suppose you, a mere man, may not understand how truly kind it is".	10
9	702	You will then, without further ado, rise to your feet and follow me, silently, humbly and unquestioningly, heeling me, as the mere beast you are, to the lodge of your master".	10
12	267	"Perhaps, rather, I should feed, train and use you as a mere curvaceous brute, not bothering to complicate our relationship by according you human speech".	10
12	649	"It is so much more than mere physical feeling," she said.	10
14	582	"You are now a slave, and only a slave! If you are used, of course, you will be used as the mere beast, and slave, you are!" "Yes, Master!" she whimpered.	10
15	81	"Did you truly think, Hci," laughed Cuwignaka, "that my brother, Canka, who has served as a Blotanhunka, and who is of the All Comrades, not merely of the Sleen Soldiers, would not take your twenty kaiila for a mere slave?" "I will never surrender her," said Canka.	10
15	114	"Please, Master," wept Winyela, piteously throwing herself to her knees at the feet of Canka, "do not let me go! Do not give me to him! I love you! I love you!" "Silence, mere slave," said Canka, sternly.	10
15	117	"Do you think you are more than a mere object," he asked, "to be done with as I please?" "No, Master," she wept.	10
18	195	White slave girls will often flee at the mere approach of a red female and will almost never meet the eyes of one.	10
22	200	"You see them nude, helpless and bound, thrown together as the mere properties they are".	10
28	121	Most masters, incidentally, enjoy talking with their slaves, immensely; after all, the slave is not a mere contractual partner, in effect, a business associate; she is a prized possession; she is a treasure, and she is all one's own.	10
29	150	It had not been used in the mere fashion in which any slave girl might use the expression 'Master' to any free man, expressing her understood lowliness and deference before him, but rather as though he might be her own master.	10
33	194	Perhaps, then, regarding me as a mere encumbrance, I having been so recently free, you did not take me with you.	10
40	43	She wore a brief halter of Waniyanpi cloth which, by design, did little to conceal the beauty of her breasts; about her waist a string was tied; two pieces of Waniyanpi cloth, about a foot wide and two feet long, were thrust over and behind the string, one in front and one in back; these two pieces ...	10
43	248	"How offensive it is that you, a lofty free woman, are tied naked in a sack, as though you might be a mere slave, as though there might be no difference between you and the Kaiila slave girl who lies beside you".	10
44	134	Did she truly think that it was a mere accident that she and Bloketu had been brought to the posts this morning, interestingly, on the last day of Canwapegiwi? Without seeming to Iwoso then began to scan the terrain below, doubtless with some anxiety.	10
47	203	I had hoped that the mere appearance of the great black tarn would inspire terror in the Kinyanpi and that they would withdraw.	10
47	226	Let it dawn on them that the tarn had obeyed my mere word.	10
56	12	They would be used without reservation, of course, in the case of mere slaves.	10

Book 19. (40 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	129	"Perhaps it is a bird from some mythology," he said, "perhaps a mere artist's whimsy".	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
1	494	It suggested more to me, unsettling me, than a mere change of, or removal of, attire.	10
3	859	In this world it seemed that sexuality, and perhaps a deeply natural sexuality, was an ingredient, and not a mere accessory.	10
5	117	At any rate, clearly, she was not now being noticed in passing, as a mere component in a display, but was being attended to, observed, scrutinized, even studied, as a specific, individual slave, on her chain.	10
5	124	I supposed it was difficult for mere female slaves, in their scanty garments, and in their lowly station, not to be excited by rich, powerful, handsome, resplendent free men, so far above themselves.	10
5	241	"But, from what you know of me," I said, "do you think that I might bring a silver tarsk?" "As a Tatrix," he asked, "or only as another woman in the market, another mere female, up for vending, one about whom there is nothing politically or socially special, one who, like most others, will be priced...	10
5	249	"You speak as if slaves were mere animals!" I said.	10
6	55	He was only a guard, a mere guard.	10
6	174	He had discussed the thing as though it might have been a mere, inconsequential piece of functional hardware.	10
6	457	I had thrown myself at him like a tart, and had been rejected! How could I have done that? Was I only a little tart, or was I a desperate, needful woman, one who had dared to be true to her needs? How I hated him! I was a Tatrix, a Tatrix! He was only a soldier, a mere guard! I had power.	10
6	658	"Sometimes I feel sorry for slaves, mere slaves," I said.	10
7	217	I, like the other women before me, perhaps women who were mere slaves, wore the steel of Drusus Rencius.	10
8	18	It seemed appropriate that I, in my disguise, might seem to heel him, as though I might be a mere slave.	10
8	241	I did not doubt but what the girls on the tiles, if they were found sufficiently displeasing to the trainer, or too frequently required the admonitory signal of the cracking leather, would soon hear the snap of the lash not in their mere vicinity but on their own bared bodies.	10
8	391	This was a matter clearly between a mere slave, now used as a scrubbing girl and a free man, indeed, a possibly offended house master.	10
8	415	We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were litt...	10
15	180	I did not know which were passages and which were mere places where several boxes had been removed.	10
18	71	"It will be delicious," he said, "having the Tatrix of Corcyrus, a free woman, serve me as though she might be a mere slave, and with the full offices and services of the slave".	10
19	24	Even so tiny and despicable a scrap of clothing as a mere slave tunic, I then realized, can be a precious treasure to a woman.	10
19	202	Also, it helps her to keep clearly in mind that it is a mere animal who is serving.	10
21	68	Even though I was far superior to them, as I was free and they were mere slaves, it was my hope that they would be kind to me in my need.	10
24	88	A mere animal was released from it.	10
24	89	The name "Tiffany" had now been put on me as a mere slave name, a name which might be removed or changed at the whim of masters.	10
31	509	We could, at times, be mere conveniences to the master, and, in this, too, we find something honest, natural, straightforward and lovely.	10
31	515	What a rich joke on the proud Tatrix! What a splendid lesson for the captured sovereign, to be subjected to a mere convenience use in the early morning, and then to be spurned to her place at a slave ring.	10
31	547	He seemed to think of me not as the helpless and lowly slave I was, a mere girl rented for his pleasure for an evening, but as though I were a high lady and free captive, Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus, who was then, perhaps in his vengeance on her for her escape from his camp, to be humiliated and ...	10
31	697	"Fifteen silver tarsks," I said, "is a great deal of money to pay for a mere feast slave".	10
31	698	"Yes," he said, "fifteen silver tarsks would be a great deal of money to pay—for a mere feast slave".	10
32	172	What true man does not want to hear this word from a beautiful woman, one from whom it emanates appropriately? What true man does not desire the mastery, and absolute power over a beautiful woman? What true man does not wish to own, and fully, the most exciting woman he has ever seen, to have her at...	10
32	283	It had apparently amused him, however, perhaps as an irony, to put her old name back on her, this time, of course, as a mere cognomen in bondage, a convenience by means of which to refer to the animal she now was, a slave name.	10
33	388	I, too, in my way, had been a mere dupe of Ligurious.	10
33	747	"Consider whether or not it is proper for mere mortals to inquire into such matters".	10
33	925	"Fifteen hundred gold pieces," said Hassan, "seems a great deal of money for a mere slave".	10
34	54	Doubtless the symbolism in this goes far beyond what might be suggested in mere words, for it is fundamental and primal, a thing beyond words, a thing having to do with biology and natural rightfulness, with evolutionary selections and justifications, to be sure, expressed within the aesthetically s...	10
36	33	On the other hand, it now seemed clear that he had come to Argentum, astoundingly enough, on the account of a mere slave, that he had come to Argentum merely to reclaim Emily, to get her again in his personal collar.	10
36	409	Knowing this helps the women to understand that they are mere properties.	10
36	714	Then, as it pleased you, in the fullness of feminine cruelty, when I could not have you, when you thought me a mere guard, you amused yourself with me, taunting me with your beauty, torturing me with desire.	10
36	1273	It had doubtless been good for me, of course, to degrade and shock me, to humiliate me, to further confirm my bondage upon me, as might the brand or collar, that of a mere female of Earth, negligible before him, a Gorean male, but the contrast with the lovely complexities and beauties of Gorean had ...	10
36	1559	"True," he said, "and that she as a mere slave was yet placed in such a sack must have induced exquisite emotions in her, emotions of fear, of outrage and humiliation".	10

Book 20. (42 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	360	"Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high...	10
1	49	A new life had then been hers, that of the mere slave.	10
1	652	After a girl has once felt the whip the mere sight of it is usually enough to bring her immediately into line.	10
1	660	She was a mere slave, dancing for masters.	10
2	213	"Its quality, incidentally, seems a bit too good to be accorded to a mere slave".	10
2	216	"As you are a mere slave," I said, "what possible difference could it make?" "Please," she begged.	10
2	226	"As I am only a mere slave," she said, "I could not possibly begin to understand the words of Master".	10
2	581	"A mere jest!" "You are Boots Tarsk-Bit," said the officer, consulting an inked handbill, clipped with other papers, "Actor, Entrepreneur, and Impresario, of the company of Boots Tarsk-Bit?" "At your service," said the paunchy fellow, bowing low.	10
2	692	The mere sight of a slave can enflame a man, and drive him half mad with passion.	10
2	701	Can fire not have a sense of its effect on straw? Are they not aware of the impact on a man of the mere sight of them.	10
3	293	"And free women," she said, "are a thousand times, and more, above a mere slave".	10
3	297	She is a thousand times, and more, above a mere slave".	10
3	324	"Yes, Brinlar! It is marvelous, Brinlar! Do not stop! Yes, Brinlar! Yes!" In such a manner can one subdue a female, turning her into a moaning toy, a plaything, a sobbing possession, a mere object, beside herself, yours, vulnerable, defenseless, powerless, one fully at your mercy, one totally depend...	10
4	261	"Do you think you could disguise yourself as a mere slave?" I asked.	10
6	353	"Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well".	10
6	354	"Your generosity overwhelms me," cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd.	10
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	753	"In any event, you are far too beautiful to be a mere free companion".	10
6	1089	"What I negotiated for, as you may recall," said Boots, "was a peep at the beauty of a free woman, not a peep at the beauty of a mere slave".	10
7	154	For example, a brown tag commonly signifies a low slave, such as a mere kettle-and-mat girl or a pot girl, little more than female work slaves, and so on, whereas a gold tag commonly signifies a much higher grade of slave, usually a trained pleasure slave or a dancer.	10
10	83	The mere sight of such a whip generally inspires terror in any female who has ever felt it.	10
10	361	"Chains, I suspect, do not much care whether it is a noble free woman whom they confine or a mere slave".	10
10	579	It was, as I had expected, that of the lofty free woman, separating herself, at least publicly, by dimensions and worlds from mere slaves.	10
10	732	I am not clear whether this was a third breakfast, or a mere continuation of a somewhat prolonged second breakfast.	10
12	243	"Further, you are losing it for a mere Spearman, not even a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
12	256	His advancing Spearman, a mere Spearman, now forked my Home Stone and Builder.	10
12	542	The least waywardness in behavior while under the commands of Rowena, or hesitancy in obeying her orders, or insolence shown towards her, we had assured her would constitute an occasion for discipline, and severe discipline, precisely as though she herself might be naught but a mere slave.	10
14	186	"Surely you do not think it is an accident that we used our little friend here in our plans? Surely you do not think it is a mere coincidence that you have been brought to this place?" "I suppose not," I said.	10
14	377	Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are.	10
15	140	Doubtless she well recalled the usages to which she had been put in the camp, and, in particular, perhaps, the use of her bestowed "favor" from the carnival, she being forced to sometimes wear it in the camp, as a mere slave strip.	10
16	377	"Strip," commanded Chino, "now, totally!" "No!" cried the girls, but, at a menacing gesture from Chino, the meaningful lifting of his open right hand, suggesting that the least dilatoriness might be rewarded with cuffings, or worse, as though they might be mere slaves, they hastened to comply.	10
16	1028	How could such a trivial thing as a joke in Brundisium, one having to do with a mere member of the caste of players, the fellow, Temenides, involve relations among thrones? "Very well," said Belnar, agreeably, "but forgo then the woman".	10
16	1034	"Perhaps the great Temenides, who holds a high board in Cos, fears to enter into a banquet's friendly game, or, say, an evening's casual tourney, with one who is a mere mountebank, a monster," suggested the player.	10
16	1053	"We shall play," said he, "not for the mere use of the female, but for her ownership, to see whose collar it will be that shall be locked upon her throat.	10
16	1057	It is one thing to play for a female, of course, for Goreans tend to regard such as fit for spoils and loot, particularly if they should be, to begin with, naught but properties, mere chattels, but it is quite another to set free males at stake.	10
18	5	"It was not a mere slaughter," said a man, "but a profound humiliation".	10
18	81	Clearly Belnar, the ubar of Brundisium, had expected Temenides to best the player, taken then to be a mere low player, a troupe's player, and this had not turned out as he had anticipated.	10
21	183	"Can you imagine that? A mere player, a member of a troupe, daring to cross swords with me?" "You have done well against one untrained in arms," I said, "one who dared to face you with only courage and a wooden sword.	10
22	81	"A mere nothing," I admitted.	10
22	109	This stratagem would permit him not only to take action against plausible suspects, given the hostility between those of Ar and Cos, this perhaps diverting attention from the true murderers, those in the pay of the ubar, but would give him a convenient pretext for ridding himself of possibly dangero...	10
22	145	"Too, how could a mere literary image capture the essence of the living drama?" "Too, they are not worth writing down," said Lecchio.	10
22	182	Both girls were so beautiful that the mere sight of them, chained by the ankle to the stake in their tents, could drive men mad with desire.	10

Book 21. (33 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	17	They were now, to be sure, I mused, in their predicament and helplessness, even though free women, as the driver had implied, little more than mere females.	10
3	27	Where there are no men, or no true men, to protect them, feminine women will, in a grotesque perversion of nature, be controlled, exploited and dominated by more masculine women, sometimes monsters and mere caricatures of men.	10
4	382	For one thing she was not of the warriors and was thus not entitled to this badge of station; indeed, her wearing it, as she was a mere female, would be a joke to outsiders and an embarrassment to the men; it would belittle its significance for them, making it shameful and meaningless.	10
11	111	"I looked about the yards, and when I found fine-looking, sensitive-looking chaps, splendid-seeming fellows, of apparent refinement and taste, those of a sort I thought might be capable of appreciating my work, I offered them one of my poems, and for no more than a mere token of appreciation, a silv...	10
11	140	What a fool I was! My poems, gone! Sold for a mere four silver tarsks! Waste! Dishonor! Misery! Ruin! Tragedy! What if this story should ever get back to the wagons? I am unworthy of my scars!" "Hurtha, old fellow," I said, gently.	10
12	90	"They are important, too, to poetry," he said, "of the sturdy, manly sort, that is, not to the neurasthenic drivel of mere poetasters and versifiers".	10
14	115	"One is a mere fifty liner".	10
15	125	"Or would you prefer, Lady Cara," he asked, "to serve there only as a cleaning prisoner, simply as a confined servant, a mere housekeeper in captivity?" "No," she sobbed, "as a slave, a full slave".	10
16	708	I gathered she was a mere virgin.	10
16	813	"I assure you," I said, "you are at present much more likely to excite the predations of men, to be viewed as a mere embonded lust object, than your daughter.	10
16	846	"Do you think any true man would let a curvaceous, luscious beauty like you, a mere prisoner set out for pleasure, a future slave, circumvent his whims in a situation like this, that he would not exploit his advantage, so to speak," I said.	10
16	1318	"Presumably no drover, or low person, a mere employee, say, would have had a baby with him," she said.	10
16	1718	"You would sell your priceless dedications, for mere money?" I asked.	10
19	373	And certainly the mere reading of it could scarcely convey the impact of hearing it proclaimed in the living voice, and particularly in a voice such as Hurtha's.	10
21	302	She was terrified, the former Lady Charlotte, once a rich, high citizeness of Samnium, now the mere beast, mine and collared, Feiqa.	10
22	228	You, too, as then a mere slave, would have to cringe, and perform, and kiss, even if it were only at the command of a child.	10
24	133	Then I saw to it, as it pleased me, at my caprice, for she was a mere slave, that she must again helplessly suffer the exigencies of her bondage.	10
24	249	Doubtless my presence there, as a mere infant, suggests great affluence on the part of my people.	10
24	506	"I lost a mere infant," he said.	10
25	275	She is a mere free woman.	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	344	This doubtless has something to do with the naturalness of the institution, for it is a civilized enhancement of a fundamental biological complementarity, and the tendency of the slave, categorically dominated and uncompromisingly possessed, as she longs to be, to fall in love with the master, and t...	10
25	780	Then he leaned down and seized me by the hair with his left hand, and pulled my head up, and then, then with the flat of his right hand, cuffed me, and then flung me back where I had been, as though I might have been a mere object.	10
25	804	"There were other girls, too, in this camp," she said, "but they appeared to be mere peasant lasses.	10
25	926	"It seems then that sometimes what is being paid for is not the mere female herself".	10
25	930	"The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".	10
25	932	And it is not unoften the case that such a common wench, of which little is expected, bought originally perhaps with the mere object of keeping her for a week or so and then reselling her, will be discovered to be an astounding value.	10
25	1194	In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than she ever was as a mere free f...	10
25	1416	If one could speak in that fashion, of "mere bodies," so to speak, and it was not typically Gorean to do so, she would not in bondage be considering whether or not to bestow her body, and for how long, but rather she would discover that it was his for the master to take, whenever he wished, however ...	10
25	1559	She is a mere slave.	10
26	1566	I then, ruthlessly, angrily, swiftly, caring nothing for her feelings or sensibilities, exploiting her, employing her in the role of a mere, lovely object, used her unilaterally for my pleasure.	10
27	142	The female slave seeks to give all, selflessly, knowing that she, as she is a mere slave, a rightless animal owned by her master, one who can be bought and sold at his least whim, can make no claims, that she deserves nothing, and is entitled to not the least attention or consideration.	10
28	24	Now that depth woman, that basic animal, the slave, may be named, and will be named, as men please, as they wish, which is wholly fitting, and, it in its way, enforcing their will upon her and calling to her attention her complete subjection to it, whatever it may be, and whether it is capricious or...	10

Book 22. (22 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	232	I danced for some time, lost in my delights, and I danced, or tried to, as would have, as I had planned, a mere slave, needful and fearful, before those who held over her the power of life and death, before her masters.	10
3	508	"Women such as you," he said, "use such books as cosmetics and ornaments, as mere intellectual adornments.	10
3	951	It could be done to me as simply and effectively by the will, or mere whim, of men such as these.	10
3	952	By such men I could be silenced by a mere word, or a gesture or glance.	10
6	535	She, I supposed, could not, unless, of course, men saw fit to reduce her, too, to bondage, and then, of course, she would be no different from us, and our competitions would be reduced to the same common denominator, that of mere females.	10
8	37	Before them, and to them, she could never be any more than we, only another female, small, lovely and helpless, a mere female, totally at their mercy.	10
8	257	I could be terribly punished, perhaps even tortured and killed, if I, a mere property, seriously injured, or diminished the value of, another property.	10
10	308	And, I would later learn, it was not even a warrior's mount, bred for swiftness and aggressiveness, a war tarn, but a mere draft tarn.	10
10	485	They had seen me the way most other Gorean men would see me, at first, or until they learned more about me, I supposed, as no more than another pretty girl in bondage, as, in effect, in a sense, no more than mere "slave meat".	10
10	488	Gloria was larger than I and, in this sense, would surely have been expected to have brought more if we were really being considered as "mere slave meat".	10
13	83	Sometimes it is put on the girl only in halters and G-strings, or mere G-strings.	10
13	95	But we were a thousand times more than mere pets, we were slaves, total slaves.	10
13	649	We may be totally at the mercy of masters, and as mere animals, and even to our lives, but just as it is within the power of these uncompromising brutes who own us to do as they wish with us, so, too, it is within their power, when it pleases them, to grant us transport to ineffable raptures, to fli...	10
13	914	I was not merely to be used, even used as a mere slave, as it sometimes amuses Gorean masters to do with us.	10
16	172	This time, of course, it was a mere convenience that she was held so.	10
16	201	He, knowing my name and scent, could be set on my trail by a mere verbal command.	10
24	538	"Now we are both mere work slaves, both of us only common sluts on the black chain of Ionicus".	10
29	161	Too, I had been a fine dancer, one of the finest, I suspect, in Brundisium! If they could have seen me curling about a man's feet in an alcove, licking and kissing them, then inching upward, piteously, hopefully, then kneeling beside him, looking up, kissing, licking, pleading, I do not think they w...	10
29	389	I would have been zealously cooperative even if I had been a free woman, holding forth my limbs to be bound, putting forth my neck for the coffle collar, and not a mere slave.	10
29	604	"See! It will kill you if you try to hurt her! Come away! Let her go! Let her go! She is not important! She is only a slave! Only a slave! Do not concern yourself with a slave, a mere slave!" Mirus then, in fury, held the blade with one hand.	10
32	182	"He has risked much for a mere girl".	10
32	189	But how tightly I was bound! How helpless I was! "It is surprising, is it not," I asked, "that you should search so long for a mere slave?" "I suppose so," he said.	10

Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	1375	The woman is then thought, in effect, to be beginning life anew, but now as a mere property, a mere animal.	10
5	769	She must now relate to him as a mere waitress.	10
8	304	You made my garments such that they were mere covers, strips and pieces, such that I dared not move, lest I be lying naked in a public place, such, too, that they might be lifted from me at a man's pleasure".	10
8	376	"You will not receive full female fulfillment as a mere servant," I said.	10
12	118	The nudity, too, would make clear their intent, and make it less likely that they might, in the darkness, be slain as mere fugitives.	10
13	216	"You would not expect them to go to all that trouble for a mere free female, would you?" "Monster," she said.	10
15	275	Slave girls, too, I knew, occasionally practiced such wiles with their brief, scandalous ta-teeras, supposedly mere rags, befitting their degraded status.	10
21	1406	"It is now a mere slave name".	10
21	1520	"And in particular," said Aemilianus, "one who was soon to become a mere slave".	10
24	168	Total ignorance, they know, as they are mere slaves, is often in their best interest.	10
24	498	"Yes!" I saw then that her small rebellion had been no more than a foolish sop to her pride, one perhaps she thought in order, I wondered if she had uttered her silly noise only because I was there, who had known her when she was a mere free woman.	10

Book 24. (38 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	100	What now would be done with her? Even though she had then been turned in effect into a pleasure slave, much as might be purchased in any market, he had, it seems, considered having her serve in his city as a mere house slave, or even, in spite of what she had now become, if it pleased him, denying h...	10
1	74	"It was done by a terrible person, one named Liadne, put over us as first girl, though we were free and she a mere slave!" I remembered Liadne.	10
1	135	She wore that name now, of course, as a mere slave name, put on her by the will of a master.	10
1	602	It seemed to me that she might be able to use some reassurance as to her femininity, even if she was a mere free woman.	10
1	755	In another moment, as she again faced me, I could not help but take in, in a glance, together with her consternation and puzzlement, the excitingness of her shapely, bared legs, her exquisite ankles and feet, the marvelous lineaments of her hips, waist and breasts, well betrayed by the silk she wore...	10
1	848	It was clear he did not recall her, but also clear, for he was no fool, that he suspected more was afoot than a mere compliance with a masterly whim, even though such whims, for the slave, in many contexts, constitute orders of iron.	10
1	1203	It was somewhat large, and a bit ostentatious, I thought, for that of a mere courier.	10
2	21	Too, in a formal whipping, as opposed to an occasional stroke or two, perhaps called forth on a given occasion, not even as meaningless, fragile or symbolic a shield as slave silk is allowed to obtrude itself between the slave and the justice, or mere attention, of the lash.	10
2	149	"He wanted me!" she said, "but he could not have me! I am too expensive, too desirable, for a mere courier!" "Beware of playing a dangerous game," I said.	10
2	219	"You risked so much for a mere point of honor?" she asked.	10
2	220	"There are no mere points of honor," I told her.	10
2	225	Let her not again speak of "mere points of honor".	10
3	378	"You are not mere brigands out to rob honest folks, as we feared.	10
3	483	Perhaps they were mere dupes, sent to be slain, that we might be convinced of your authenticity".	10
12	252	The slave, of course, like the sleen or verr, a mere domestic animal, like them, is seldom in a position to improve, say, a fellow's social connections.	10
12	380	Much more practical for the delta would have been the skimpy garments of female slaves, the brief tunics, the short, open-sided, exciting camisks, the scandalous ta-teeras, or slave rags, indeed, the many varieties of stimulating slave garments, sometimes mere strips and strings, garments deliberate...	10
17	59	Often a mere cord tied about their necks, fastening them together, the one to the other, is all that is required for their control.	10
19	92	On the other hand, unless they are being uttered knowingly as mere noise, they do, upon reflection, seem a bit odd.	10
19	662	"Owned sluts, mere chattels, to whom anything may be done!" "Yes," I said.	10
19	754	It then, for what reason I am not sure, perhaps because of its memory of fire, perhaps because of the injuries I had caused it, perhaps because of a mere desire to safeguard its prey, smote its great wings, and, blasting sand about, bending nearby rence almost to the water, began to rise into the ai...	10
19	1230	I supposed she had little pleasure in this, at least at the time, and perhaps I should have been a bit more concerned for her than I was, as she was a free woman, and not a mere slave, but, frankly, I was not much in a mood to concern myself with her feelings.	10
19	1256	Let us suppose that, to his amazement, and perhaps consternation, it becomes clear to him one evening that she has somehow changed, that she has somehow become a needful, radically sexual creature, really, and not for mere political purposes, so to speak.	10
21	45	The half hood is a device intended to couple something of the effectiveness of the full hood with the various exploitable advantages of the mere blindfold.	10
22	39	To be sure, occasionally, as she was still a mere free woman, she required a firm word, or a subtle warning, such as my touching my belt.	10
28	31	As a mere free woman, however, she probably did not understand how unusual this was, and, if anything, was more than pleased to be allowed to remain inconspicuously in the background.	10
28	606	The mere sight of a slave whip is then enough to make her juice.	10
29	138	I wondered if she knew how fortunate she was, however, that there was no truly free woman in the camp, one with all the privileges and liberties of such a woman at her finger tips, what with she herself a mere captive.	10
31	252	"No," I said, "a mere captive".	10
32	15	The usages to which I had subjected her this afternoon, one might think, would have contented even a lascivious bond-maid, not to mention a mere free woman.	10
32	266	"We were then marched north, under whips, as though we might have been mere females, and taken to a holding area.	10
42	48	"It seems you have allies other than a mere officer of Ar's Station," he said.	10
43	61	From about the wagon, and about the concealing canvas, timidly, and yet beautifully, leashed, in a belly cord, a mere lace, and a narrow, yellow slave strip, her hands behind her, probably braceleted, came a beautiful young woman.	10
43	152	"And, independently," I said, "it would seem that the wanton slaughtering of Ephialtes, an innocent, unoffending sutler, and doubtless his slave, Liadne, as well, in the perpetration of what would seem to be for most practical purposes a mere act of theft, might raise delicate questions of honor".	10
44	58	She had been kicked, as might have been a mere slave.	10
44	272	That was probably where I had seen him before, probably in a mere glimpse, when I was, at that time, drawing the sodden rence craft for Plenius and the others.	10
44	284	It was a mere band of iron which had been put about her neck and hammered shut, the two ends evened to match one another.	10
48	66	As she had served Cosians, it seemed appropriate that her beauty and service now, abjectly, and in the dimensions of the mere female slave, should be totally at their disposal.	10
48	273	"Yes," I said, "a mere gift".	10

Book 25. (44 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	288	'Mere livestock to be bought and sold, mere creatures to be peddled about, and chained and herded.	10
26	430	"I am Ubara of Ar!" "You would have us believe that Talena, the Ubara of Ar, is what we see before us, a mere sensuous tart in need of crass sexual relief, a mere chit who would condescend to keep a rendezvous so shameful as this?" I looked upon her.	10
2	37	It was a mere slave tunic, a cheap, tiny thing, little more than a ta-teera or camisk, and yet it delighted her, boundlessly.	10
2	138	She was a mere slave and thus appropriately kept in ignorance.	10
2	244	Only recently she had been a free woman, though, to be sure, one who had been long kept, languishing, it seemed, and, of course, incompletely fulfilled, in the status of a mere captive.	10
2	275	Already, it seemed, Phoebe had returned to her normal mode of relating to him, as a mere, docile slave, not daring to confess her love openly.	10
3	40	Indeed, it had not even occurred to me to do so, nor would it have been appropriate, as she was a mere slave.	10
3	188	The mere sight of her had led me to hurry to the mats.	10
3	564	I supposed that she, even there, standing so seemingly still, pretending to be a mere observer, could feel the dance in her body, in its myriad incipient movements, tiny movements in her legs, in her belly, in her body, in herself, in the wholeness of her womanhood.	10
3	589	In any event, slave girls fear free women greatly, as they, being mere slaves, are much at their mercy.	10
3	664	Too, I speak not of such relatively insignificant matters as the mere excellence of her figure for slave dance, as suitable and fitting as it might be for such an art form, for women with many figures can be superb in slave dance, or that she must possess a great natural talent for such a mode of ex...	10
3	725	How utterly marvelous, again I thought, are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a mere, inert female of Earth to match them! Poor, pathetic, impoverished, deprived men of Earth, I thought.	10
3	928	Phoebe, as I have suggested, was held to her master by bonds compared to which stout ropes, woven of the strongest, coarsest fibers, and chains or iron, obdurate, weighty and unbreakable, were mere gossamer strands.	10
8	691	Phoebe herself, it might be mentioned, had very seldom been lashed, particularly since the day of Myron's entrance into the city when Marcus had finally accepted her as a mere slave, as opposed to a Cosian woman in his collar, to be sure, enslaved, on whom he could vent his hatred for Cos and all th...	10
9	337	"Should this woman's caste, and her lofty birth, and that she was the daughter of an administrator, a mere administrator, permit her to shirk her duties to the state?" "No!" cried men.	10
9	445	"I am not yet legally embonded!" "Thus," cried Talena, "will you learn to kneel before free persons!" Claudia struggled, but, in a moment, her small strength, that of a mere female, availing her nothing, by two guardsmen, was forced to her knees.	10
11	302	To be sure, I had gathered that he had once been too much under the influence of a woman, a mere slave, who had been named Lucilina.	10
11	356	"I assume you do not mean as a child might be a slave," I said, "carried into bondage to be trained as a mere serving girl or page, to be in effect held for true bondage later, say, to be auctioned as a pleasure object, if a female, or say, to be sent to the fields or quarries, if a male".	10
12	73	The mere presence of the whip in the slave's vicinity, perhaps dangling from a hook where she can see it, is often enough to ensure a lovely perfection of female service.	10
12	112	He buys the girl to serve as a mere instrument of his pleasure, much as he might buy any other object or tool.	10
12	118	Often she is utilized, when his need is upon him, casually, unilaterally, briefly, sometimes brutally, utilized as a mere object, a simple warm, squirming, gasping, meaningless, helpless convenience to the assuagement of his lusts.	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	678	"A mere technicality," he said.	10
12	679	"It is not a mere technicality to those who find themselves in legal bondage," I said.	10
14	266	Perhaps when she was a free woman she had seen girls on the rack, though, of course, they would have been mere slaves.	10
14	610	You will petition to serve his pleasure, you will beg to squirm for him, and as the insignificant and meaningless slut, a mere slave, you now are".	10
17	341	"Such things," said he, quickly, "are mere matters of blood, of instinct, of aptitude, of strength, of reflexes, of training, of practice.	10
17	437	"Even though these wonders could have been accomplished so easily by mere trickery, that does not prove they were!" "No," I said.	10
17	439	"The same effect might have quite different causes," he said, "for example, in these cases, having been achieved either by mere charlatanry or by genuine magic".	10
18	351	The task we have in mind is no task for a mere mortal.	10
19	121	"Doubtless it is a mere inadvertence, a merely accidental calling to your master's attention of your beauty, a totally unintentional, never-dreamed-of reminder to him of the promise of its delights".	10
19	133	Who would have the courage, or foolishness, to gainsay them the use of such an object, to challenge the employments to which they might put such a mere fair article of property? Too, she was barefoot and slave clad.	10
19	714	"And then they began to discuss a free woman, I do not even remember her name, objectively, casually, as though she might be an animal, a mere slave, like myself.	10
19	1221	"Yes," I said, "naught but a mere cuffing".	10
20	375	It was decorous, and yet clearly the garment of a mere slave.	10
20	407	"One need not concern you," I said, "as you will be the mere instrument of its delivery.	10
21	456	"I do not think, at any rate," I said, "that it is a mere accident that that name occurred to her, as on the spur of the moment".	10
22	100	She, a mere slave, had had as yet no suitable opportunity to make her approach.	10
22	533	I did not know if this were merely his surprise at seeing her here, again, from so long ago, so unexpectedly, she now in her collar, or if the startled response to her might be more the result of recognizing the incredible transformation which had taken place in her, that the mere free woman he had ...	10
23	84	"In recommending that this be done by mere trickery," said Marcus, "we have lost the stone!" "Oh?" I said.	10
23	246	If the substitution is discovered today, on the same day I was within the circle, and I left the city today, this might seem too improbable to be a mere coincidence.	10
28	54	They would rush there and find she whom they took to be their Ubara chained in place, as though she might now be no more than someone's mere slave girl.	10
28	107	But, too, I speculated, there would be those of Ar to whom the Home Stone was a Home Stone, and not a mere rock, not a piece of meaningless earth.	10
28	212	"She is a mere slave girl".	10

Book 26. (23 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	139	"Surely the intent of this exceeds mere mnemonics and instruction," she said, "such things as a mere desire to demonstrate to the slave her vulnerability".	10
16	648	And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be atte...	10
19	1079	"Do they not regard us as mere things, as mere objects?" she asked.	10
4	63	But I think it was more than some possible difference in mere volume.	10
4	271	Too, if I had known more of where I was, I would have found his mere location, behind me and to my left, a source of considerable apprehension.	10
7	188	I, a woman from another world, a world not his, I, a woman removed from, torn from, my own world and brought as a mere captive, or less, to his, kneeling naked at his feet, fearfully, in chains, had looked up at him.	10
7	974	It would become, in all probability, then, not a difference between captivity and freedom, but a mere changing of collars.	10
9	272	Perhaps a mere expression of transitory annoyance had crossed my features.	10
10	492	But, even so, would that not be mere luck, and, in a sense, would he not then be merely a lucky fool? Certainly professional slavers on this world would customarily exercise great care in such matters, perhaps even having recourse to elaborate techniques of inquiry and espionage.	10
11	1152	The mere thought of being returned to some former master, from whom, I gathered, she had been stolen, was apparently more dreadful to her, more fearful to her, than the assemblage of fates which had just been outlined before her, those possibly consequent upon her being returned to Tharna, some city...	10
11	1307	"But I require more than mere acceptability in the performances of my women," he said.	10
11	1476	No longer was the most important thing I was to be regarded as an inconsequential accident, as a mere irrelevancy.	10
12	78	Does she not now have a new master? And is it not he? Must she not hasten to her place at his feet, summoned even as might be another form of domestic animal, perhaps by a mere word, or whistle? She dares not disobey.	10
12	617	Then, with a quick lateral motion, I crying out a little, it opened a slit in my robes, perhaps a mere hort or two in width.	10
13	855	It had to do with more than the mere triviality of my having failed, in my confusion and fear, to make my condition clear to a free woman in the darkness.	10
13	912	And thusly was I, a mere slave, again conquered.	10
14	1360	"But, I think," I whispered, "that he, a slaver, suspected that you might not be truly bond, but something else, perhaps what you are, a mere prisoner.	10
14	1361	He might have thus intervened to prevent the indignity of you being beaten, as a mere slave".	10
14	1389	"And then I, too, might be whipped, as they, perhaps even on a mere whim—whipped—literally—whipped".	10
14	1858	"It would not do at all if some fellow on the surface, taking you for a mere slave, and insensitive to the civilities involved, should simply throw you to the stones and put you to his pleasure".	10
18	145	Men in this city, whatever city it was, whereas they might have regarded our tunics as "appealing," would certainly not have regarded them as scandalous; if anything, for this city, they might have seemed a bit decorous; indeed, many men in this city, I had noted, seemed to enjoy displaying their sl...	10
19	281	I gathered that a slave's failure to yield suitable deference to such individuals might be regarded as a peculiarly heinous omission, one perhaps jeopardizing not only the girl, who, after all, was but a mere slave, but perhaps the city itself.	10
19	315	Or, even if she thought this a mere whim, or even an arbitrary decision on their part, merely to demonstrate their power, she might reconcile herself to it, indeed, soon joyously submitting to, and accepting, what she takes to be her decreed fate.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	305	As the mere sight of the saddle had come to be arousing to Ellen, so, too, with slaves, the mere being in a place or the mere seeing or touching of an article may affect them in a profound manner, disturbing them, rendering them uneasy, rendering them helplessly, grievously needful.	10
4	183	It was true; she desperately wanted to please him, to be found pleasing by him, despite the fact that he was a mere male, a mere insensitive, boorish, rude male, an enemy.	10
4	484	Surely she had gone too far! Was she feminine? She must not be feminine! Surely it would be wrong for her to be such, to be so female, so simply, so radically, so vulnerably female! Was such not a mere social artifact? But what if it were not a mere social artifact? What if it were something very di...	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	141	"Interesting that he would so jeopardize himself for a mere human, put his life at risk against Kur custom," said Cabot, "and for one not even an ally, but for one the mere pet of another".	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	615	"It was for this," I asked, "that you would have ventured to the World's End, for this, a mere slave?" "Yes," he said, "for this, a mere slave".	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	70	"Surely they are innocent enough, mere crates, mere boxes," I said.	10
52	803	Why was he angry, so angry? I feared his fury? What had I done? Did this have to do with him, or with me, or both? How dark was his visage, how twisted his frown! "You are a mere slave," he said, "a mere slave!" "Yes, Master," I said, uncertainly.	10

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	324	I would be bought and sold, as the mere animal, the mere object, I would then be.	10
33	488	That simple beast, a mere beast, a thing that was crated, was free, a person, and I was not! It was on my neck, not hers, that there was a collar! But, of course, I was a mere woman of Earth, an object, a suitable property for the men of this world! "Nothing, Master," I said.	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	85	"What mere, worthless slave thanks Master?" "Adraste, the mere, worthless slave, thanks Master!" she whispered, tears bursting from her eyes, running down her cheeks.	10
39	161	"Take pity on a mere slave!" "'A mere slave'," said Miles.	10