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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	210	"It is Flame Death merely to possess a weapon of the interdicted sort.	10
3	155	I once talked to my father about the matter, and he merely said that there were many things on Gor worse than the lot of slavery, particularly that of a Tower Slave.	10
4	25	There is very little precision in this method, however, because the reactions of the bird are merely instinctive, and he may not withdraw in the exact tangent desired.	10
4	54	"Har-ta! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" The great bird seemed to sense what I intended, or perhaps it was merely his sudden realization that the other tarn was in the lead, but a remarkable transformation swept over my sable, plumed steed.	10
8	159	I was dismayed at this—the cool, calculating exploitation of her girls by the daughter of the Ubar, merely to gain information.	10
16	94	"Goodbye, Sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days.	10

Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	9	His hair, lamentably perhaps, though some of us loved him for it, was red, but not merely red—it was rather a tangled, blazing affront to the proprieties of the well-groomed academician.	10
8	51	It was possible, of course, that they were merely curious.	10
9	89	I did not know if they were weak, or if they merely thought poorly of themselves.	10
12	76	He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death...	10
16	32	The Tatrix acknowledged the salutation of Dorna the Proud with merely a regal nod of her head.	10
21	77	Yet when I arrived I found that she was merely a slave, and that her owner, quite properly from Gor's point of view, was attending to the routine business of marking his property.	10
21	81	If anything, they were merely impatient with her, and thought she made too much of a fuss about things.	10
21	100	Perhaps it is merely a device for merchants who must have some such means for tracing runaway slaves, which would otherwise constitute a costly hazard to their trade.	10
22	198	I noted that Targo did not even furnish the customary slave livery of Gor but merely a camisk, which had clearly been worn before.	10
24	146	And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace.	10
26	91	"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet".	10

Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	96	"Then it was merely a manner of speaking".	10
6	78	Had I now become so much the Gorean warrior that I could disregard the feelings of a fellow creature, in particular those of a girl, who must be protected and cared for? Could it be that I had, as the codes of my caste recommended, not even considered her, but merely regarded her as a rightless anim...	10
8	138	In effect, I had probably merely scored a lucky hit.	10
12	114	Perhaps Misk had meant merely that they were unusually excellent representatives of the human type.	10
15	95	This device you see then is merely a contrivance for producing these charges and microstates without the necessity for the time-consuming external stimulation".	10
15	114	How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures".	10
17	25	I wondered if Sarm had much idea of the meaning of the expression "friend" or if it were merely used because he calculated that it would produce a favorable impression on me.	10
17	98	It was merely a scene of a road, bordered by some trees, which seemed to slowly approach the lens and then pass behind it.	10
20	144	Should I kill the innocent attendants, merely Muls who were performing the tasks allotted to them by Priest-Kings? Would I then have to slay Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta as well? And what would I do with the girl in the Nest of Priest-Kings? And what of Misk? Would I not then lose my opportunity, if any,...	10
20	210	"Is it enough that she be merely a female of our kind?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
27	181	Perhaps they merely regarded one another.	10
28	146	"It is merely a matter of changing the chambers in which we pasture".	10
30	74	The Priest-Kings themselves said nothing, explained nothing, to their dumbfounded human companions but merely laid aside their weapons and approached the Beetles.	10

Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	92	I merely looked at him, wondering if it were merely Harold the Tuchuk at work again.	10
9	66	I had not made use of this particular tool, and had contented myself with merely taking a bite or two, to satisfy the requirements of etiquette, from each course.	10
11	50	"Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".	10
11	234	When I had first seen this thing, heaped with other odds and ends in one corner of the wagon, some of the odds and ends being tankards of jewels and small, heavy chests filled with golden tarn disks, I had thought it merely a rock.	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
16	299	He might well be, and I supposed it true, merely an agent—but for whom, or what?—something that would challenge even Priest-Kings—but, it must be, something that feared Priest-Kings, or it would already have struck—this world, or Earth—something that wanted Priest-...	10
22	17	Do not take me wrong—I am rather fond, on the whole, of my hair—it is merely that one must, to be objective about such matters, recognize that it has, from time to time, involved me in various difficulties—beginning about my fourth year.	10
22	31	It seemed to me he could fly with safety when he chose, but that he had merely not yet chosen.	10
23	12	What I had taken to be merely a group of four outriders had actually been a gathering of Ubars of the Wagon Peoples.	10
24	22	During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso...	10
25	680	And perhaps, I thought, the woman who is merely playing might resist a male, for she does not understand what it is to be an actual property, one fully at the mercy of its master.	10
25	694	It was not merely that they did not wish to be slain.	10

Book 5. (14 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	287	With some days of practice she will read Gorean as well as most Goreans; beyond this it is merely a question of interest and aptitude".	10
7	44	If the basket is merely carried, and the tarn cannot be controlled from the basket, then the tarn wears the tarn saddle and is controlled by a tarnsman.	10
11	98	After that, to ensure prompt obedience, it is commonly enough to merely move one's hand toward the leather".	10
11	382	The results of the tests I have just conducted are quite affirmative, much better than merely satisfactory, decidedly promising".	10
12	59	Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ...	10
16	60	Virginia, seeing Relius, merely lowered her head; Phyllis, seeing Ho-Sorl, seemed beside herself with anger.	10
17	335	This was not unusual, however, for Ho-Sorl invariably demanded that the proud Phyllis, who professed to despise him, serve him as table slave, which service she would ultimately, irritably, head in the air, have to render him, whether it be merely the pouring of his wine or the offering of a grape h...	10
17	527	It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more; Sura's pride and her position in the House, though she was slave, had been resented by many of the men and staff; perhaps even Cernus felt she had overstepped herself; surely he seemed pleased that she would now be hum...	10
18	356	It could of course be that he had merely been forgotten, overlooked in the general revels of Kajuralia.	10
19	57	Most were doubtless on their way to the ticket booths, for there is a small charge to enter the Curulean; the fee, though minimal, helps to defray the expenses of the market, most of which are met by commissions on sales transacted on its premises; the fee also tends to some extent, but I suspect no...	10
19	71	Outside the Curulean also, on sale days, actual slave girls are exhibited, some in suspended plastic cages fastened to the roof of the portico, others in a tier of cages lining the interior wall of the portico; these are not, however, the exposition cages within the Curulean; they are merely, so to ...	10
19	122	Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab...	10
20	297	He stood before the table of Cernus and though Cernus was Ubar of his city he merely lifted his hand in common Gorean greeting, palm inward.	10
24	271	Door after door I passed, most with the heavy ornate locks, some secured merely with the signature knots of lowly men, or even slaves.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	90	Sometimes merely the movement of a tharlarion or the flutter of a marsh gant, something completely unrelated to us, would summon a great falling and hissing of bolts into the marsh.	10
13	15	They merely regarded me.	10
13	230	The slave master, in my opinion, wanted far too much for his merchandise, considering we were merely fodder for the benches of the round ships.	10

Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
6	394	Most of the other girls merely turned and regarded me, not much interested.	10
8	1161	From a distance it might appear they were merely sitting about the fire, celebrating, two Kajirae at their feet.	10
9	162	Most of them merely looked about, their spears ready.	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
11	1005	On the other hand, there is a Gorean saying, not voiced I suppose before free women, but heard among men, that all women are slaves, and it is merely that not all of them are in collars.	10
13	1137	Could such a man have no interest in the whole slave of me? Was that all that might be of interest to a man, merely the embonded curves of my branded body? I looked up at him, reproachfully.	10
14	464	In all things she is merely an animal, a lovely animal, to be sure, but an animal nonetheless, an animal totally at the disposal of her master.	10
14	487	She is now merely a slave, despised and shamed, an item of livestock.	10
15	887	I was merely a slave girl who had been punished, and would be again, if need be.	10
16	277	Sometimes, too, she desires to be tied and whipped, if merely to remind her that she is a slave.	10
17	76	It was almost as though I might not have been only another slave, merely another girl in his collar.	10

Book 8. (18 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	662	When they had finished, I merely regarded them.	10
4	289	"I merely used you as the paga slave you are," I told her.	10
7	63	She was merely slave.	10
7	129	She was merely slave.	10
8	8	It was my original intention to bring with me merely five, but, when Arn and his men arrived at the camp, I permitted them to join us.	10
8	22	It was to besiege the girls in their stockade, cutting them off from food and water, and merely wait until they, hungering and thirsting, following our orders, threw down their weapons, stripped themselves and emerged, backing toward us, their wrists crossed behind their backs, one by one, at interv...	10
11	209	They will be merely beautifully resilient, heady to turn her eagerly, at his command, to face him.	10
12	159	Sometimes a girl is purchased, or sought out in a tavern or brothel, merely because she reminds a fellow of someone else.	10
12	161	Perhaps it is merely that her voice reminds him of that of a veiled, free woman, who once, in a distant city, treated him badly, one whom perhaps he once courted and who scorned him.	10
12	164	I had intended to use Rena merely for a brief, nocturnal snack of slave, but, beneath my fingers, I had discovered instead, to my astonishment, a yielding, helpless, piteous slave feast.	10
15	204	I would, merely, deprive it of its guards.	10
15	774	The auctioneer, in his skill, would have demonstrated undreampt-of latencies in the wench on sale, that her desirabilities were not merely placid and visual, but organic, reflexive and sensual, that she, properly handled, was the sort of woman who, as the Goreans say, could not help but kiss the whi...	10
16	106	Mira could have no way of knowing how many were present at her interrogation nor if those present were merely a delegation or smaller group drawn from a larger band.	10
18	475	It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,...	10
22	11	Others carried merely knives, or light spears, taken from Hura's panther girls.	10
22	590	If it were convenient for him now to free her, merely as an ex-citizen of Ar, he might do so, but he was not concerned in the matter.	10
22	596	She would, however, I had little doubt, send the two women who guarded Talena to his camp north of Laura, with their prisoner, to see if he, as a free man merely, might be interested in the purchase of a slave.	10
22	691	She is then merely an animal, and is treated as such.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	156	The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ...	10
1	106	There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.	10
22	186	It is merely that the female slave, abandoned, responsive, owned, constantly at her master's beck and call, ready constantly for his least pleasure, is frequently used.	10

Book 10. (23 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	306	This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or...	10
1	276	Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...	10
1	291	I have seen girls whom the auctioneer had to beat from him with his whip, merely in order to display them adequately.	10
4	144	Indeed, it is enough merely to threaten such a girl with return to Earth to make them do anything".	10
4	553	She is not permitted merely to excite, and flee away; when, at the conclusion of the swirling music, she flings herself to the floor at the mercy of free men, her dance is but half finished; she has yet to pay the price of her beauty.	10
5	240	He was merely concerned to consider what they might, competitively, be worth.	10
7	668	"Open the collar," I told him, "rather than merely break the links.	10
8	219	Sometimes he merely throws my skirt over my head and hurls me to the mats, taking me swiftly, then ordering me to resume my work outside".	10
13	406	"And, too, is she not merely an Earth slut?" He smiled.	10
14	188	He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t...	10
14	379	Doubtless her silk had merely been taken from her and she had been locked in her quarters, or cell, as it might be.	10
14	413	She was a slave, merely a slave.	10
23	134	Now, I gathered, the Zevar and Arani had prevailed upon the Aretai command to defend the front lines of the left flank, or perhaps the Tajuks had merely come late, to discover their position occupied by others.	10
24	422	You are all the same, human females—merely human females".	10
24	423	"Merely?" she said.	10
24	455	But some men do not want to master women but merely to hurt them, simply, it seems, for the pleasure of hurting them.	10
24	462	"Perhaps the master is merely hidden, as is, in some women, the slave?" "Perhaps," she said.	10
24	491	It merely spoke itself, from somewhere.	10
24	529	But from Ibn Saran I had learned she had, her brittle defenses overridden and crushed, learned that, instead, on Earth, she had been a slave who, merely, had not yet been placed in bondage.	10
24	810	Perhaps, in the cage they themselves have built, they will merely languish and die".	10
26	710	But, on the whole, let her be treated as though she was not special to me, but merely another slave, one I might have picked up anywhere.	10
26	1068	"Remember, you are now merely a new slave.	10
26	1187	I merely transmitted her.	10

Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	92	Was I stupid? Did I not know how to kneel? Or perhaps I was merely ignorant? Certainly I wanted to please them.	10
2	308	Of course I had been terrified, but I felt, in my deepest heart, that I had not said what I had said merely to try and save my life.	10
2	755	Had I been brought here merely as a naked woman, it seemed pointless to have placed me as I had been placed in the wilderness.	10
2	757	Had I been brought here merely for my beauty surely they would not have behaved as they had.	10
2	1025	I was merely there, subject to him, should he speak or gesture.	10
3	536	But perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.	10
4	101	Should the master or mistress, or child, forget to give this permission, it is merely the misfortune of the slave girl.	10
4	1176	It was not merely that I was eager to piteously and submissively display my beauty to them, that they might be moved to take it in their arms and vanquish it, but, beyond this, I was overwhelmed by an entire dimension of emotion which might be spoken of, though inadequately, as the desire to yield s...	10
5	351	It was not merely that I was encumbered by the robes.	10
5	363	For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and...	10
6	71	Sometimes I was merely taken by the hair and thrown to the grass and raped, or seized by an ankle and thrown over a log, that I might be used for their pleasure, or kicked to my knees before them, that I might intimately please them.	10
7	133	"Surely," said she, "you did not attack my retinue merely to carry off a girl to wear your collar".	10
7	880	She was being half dragged, not merely perfectly controlled, as is customary, by the cruel grip.	10
7	1135	Today I grew angry with you, and you had merely behaved as a slave".	10
9	90	Or, perhaps it was merely that the last wrist-ring had then been open, I being left in Tabuk's Ford, and thus there was no reason for her any longer to be excluded from the coffle.	10
9	91	Thus, she would merely have been placed in the available wrist ring, in my place.	10
12	781	Was this to make it difficult to conceal weapons, or to assist in their summary assessments of the catch? Or was it merely because they were raiders and we were woman? To be sure, we were slave girls, animals.	10
13	392	And I knew that I was not being sold merely as a beautiful girl, for such a girl might have gone for twenty-one tarsks, but as something more, as a beautiful slave girl.	10
13	412	Before they had only looked upon me as merely another girl slave, to be sold from the block in her turn for a handful of copper tarsks.	10
15	311	"Merely to be your slave?" I asked.	10
18	45	For all I knew I was merely another lowly paga girl.	10
19	52	I wondered if I had ever knelt in such a place as this before, or if it were merely the figment of a slave girl's dream.	10
22	434	It seemed rather the remark merely of another woman, one frightened, curious, unsure of herself.	10
26	489	It was not merely my desire that she not be given a name which I had worn when free.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	743	This would not be easy if the fellow had merely glanced upon the wares and passed by.	10
3	868	"Do you still think," she asked, "that we are merely some sort of prisoners?" "No, no," wept the blond girl.	10
8	176	"No," I said, "I merely, in response to your request, informed you of the name I would give you, when I own you".	10
9	125	It would be sufficient, when I returned to Port Kar, merely to have her whipped, to be sure, well whipped, for her stupidity.	10
9	351	"I am merely discharging my orders".	10
15	498	Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free men for work projects; the...	10
15	810	"But I do not speak here merely of the simplicities and negativities of a cure," I said.	10
15	1020	Girls sometimes fought one another viciously, merely to be the first to display themselves naked before a Gorean master.	10
35	229	"It was merely an observation," I said.	10
35	408	If I chose merely to hide, it would take the men of the complex a good deal of time to find me.	10
35	638	Its presence in her wardrobe was doubtless merely a function of the desire of her employers to assure its completeness and her adequate familiarity with Gorean customs, a familiarity she might have to develop in order to prosecute certain missions which might be expected of her on Gor.	10

Book 13. (20 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	198	Suddenly, for the first time they suspect that this is something very important about them, that it is not merely a political irrelevancy, or embarrassment, that it is not merely a trivial contingent fact about their being, negligible in its significance and to be ignored if at all possible.	10
2	8	He merely took her arms and lifted them, so that the position chain, attached to each side of the sales collar, lay across her upper arms.	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
11	60	You think you could become attractive but merely choose not to be so.	10
11	62	This permits you to console yourself with lies and, at the same time, provides you with an excuse for despising and belittling the truly attractive woman, thinking she is merely, as you would be, if you were she, acting.	10
11	163	She apparently had little sensitivity to the aesthetic incongruities involved or, perhaps, she wished merely to reassure herself by this device that she was truly of Earth and not Gor.	10
12	271	It is merely the articulated, legalized expression, to be expected in rational organisms, of the biological context in which human sexuality developed, a context which can be betrayed but can never, because of the ingrained nature of genetic dispositions, be fully forgotten or, in the long run, succ...	10
13	749	Merely to cross this threshold, that of an alcove, that of a chamber of submission, will make you ready for a man's pleasure".	10
13	751	"Merely to look at the curtains excites me".	10
13	753	"Merely to touch my collar excites me.	10
23	49	It was not merely that they constituted his power base, and that he wished to flatter them.	10
25	71	After the first two days we had, for another two days, kept them merely in left-ankle and throat coffle.	10
25	72	On the fifth day they were merely in throat coffle.	10
29	166	"You are merely training an animal to know her station in life".	10
32	73	It was now merely up to me to do what I wished with her.	10
34	413	"Is your admission merely intellectual?" I asked.	10
35	52	Indeed, some masters keep more than one girl just for this purpose, not merely to lessen the labors of each, but that each may, in the intensity of their rivalry, strive to please him more than the other.	10
40	61	"It is merely that I may want you again before morning".	10
43	95	You must understand that a post is often used to display a girl, not merely to secure her.	10
48	341	And then, at a word, or glance, or curt gesture, when one is weary or has heard enough, or merely at one's whim, one may simply silence them, and put them to their knees.	10

Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	37	It is not, however, that she was merely extremely attractive.	10
1	482	But he said to me merely that I might then leave.	10
7	64	This was not merely a function of the reduced gravity of the planet but of newly acquired strength.	10
7	850	Did she truly think that I, a man of Earth, would treat her as a slave, merely because she was a slave? She was silent.	10
13	479	There, her tunic had been hitched up to her hip, presumably the better to expose her beauty and the mark which identified it as merely that of an item of merchandise.	10
16	193	Turbus Veminius and one of his fellows had merely spent those times engaged in conversation, pertaining to the tharlarion races.	10
18	272	"When he does well, or is successful," she asked, as though merely curious, "is he rewarded?" "Yes," said Kenneth, "it is useful in the training".	10
20	108	It was not merely that his own champion had been defeated and that he had lost a goodly bit of coin on the wagering involved, but that he had been, in the past, like several other young swains in the vicinity, an unsuccessful suitor in the matter of the companionship, for the hand of the Lady Floren...	10
20	167	"And her hair had value," said Kenneth, "so, as she is merely a stable slut, I saw fit to shear it".	10
22	21	"And all this I owe to my dear friend," said the Lady Melpomene, "the Lady Florence!" There was again light applause, but this time, the Lady Florence, being the object of the commendation, merely bowed her head graciously.	10
22	270	Sometimes, however, she is not secured but merely ordered to hold the ring.	10
25	35	When I had asked Kenneth about this, he had merely grinned, and asked, "Do you not know?" "Perhaps," I had smiled.	10
29	103	"She was referred to, if I recall correctly, merely as the 'new slave.	10

Book 15. (15 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	144	"You will not merely try," I told her.	10
4	505	One merely reports facts.	10
10	157	The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ...	10
10	202	It is, you see, not merely free women who have this delicious fault, if fault it be, but, too, radically, the half-naked, ragged, collared slave, competing for a cosmetic or a comb.	10
14	207	"But on the other hand," I said, "perhaps you should merely tie my sandals".	10
21	130	"You merely fear the whip," I smiled.	10
23	21	Such a dance usually proceeds in clearly defined phrases, evident not merely in the expressions and movements of the girl but in the nature of the accompanying music.	10
23	128	Sometimes, though I had tried not to make this obvious, I had, in effect, beaten his blade to the side, rather than merely turned it away.	10
23	200	This sort of question, generally, is understood more broadly than merely being an inquiry into the male's culinary preferences of the moment.	10
24	260	"But, on the whole," she said, "I think it most likely that you were merely told that I was from Earth.	10
24	263	Did you wish merely to see if we, being lower, were juicier puddings than our Gorean sisters, or, beyond this, as a matter of curiosity, did you wish to learn something of our nature?" It amused me that Miss Henderson had used the graphic Gorean expression that she had, an expression almost always a...	10
24	810	"Master!" Then I had left her behind me, merely a girl fastened at the foot of a couch, only a slave who had served one of her master's guests.	10
26	41	Indeed, sometimes the girl is merely told to grasp the ring and to remain there until the master returns.	10
28	296	"She was merely the instrument wherewith we extended our invitation," said Tasdron.	10
29	26	"I merely do my duty.	10

Book 16. (20 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	313	"It merely chanced that she fell across my path".	10
16	433	With a cry of rage he again rushed upon me and, again, I merely defended myself.	10
17	660	"Perhaps he merely wishes you to learn that you are a slave," I said.	10
18	458	She is not merely a person who is living with him.	10
18	472	"But I did not think, in the room of cosmetics, that I would be summoned before you, merely that you might hear me speak".	10
18	659	"I had thought that I might be everything to him, and that he would be grateful for my least smile, but I discovered that I was nothing to him, and that he took merely for granted the most intimate services that I could conceive of delivering to him, they being no more than his due from a rented gir...	10
18	683	"No, my Master," she said, "I do not mean merely that I submitted to him as must any slave to any man to whom her master gives or rents her".	10
18	685	"No, my Master," she whispered, "I do not mean either merely that he induced in me the spasm submissions of the bond girl, or that he enforced upon me the fullness of the humiliating, ecstatic slave orgasms, so far beyond anything attainable by the free woman, to which any free man may subject the s...	10
19	32	Riches, too, there had been to distribute, of course, not merely females.	10
19	127	Similarly a free woman may look upon a wall and see there merely the side of a room, but the slave girl may see there an obdurate barrier, beyond which she cannot run, against which she could be thrown and stripped, a barrier at the foot of which, crouching in terror, she would have to await the ple...	10
19	134	The sweetness of these sometimes sudden and transient ravishings, of course, does not replace the lengthy feasts of love of which the Gorean is fond; rather, they merely supplement them.	10
19	135	They are, in their way, merely another attestation of the condition of the girl, that she is truly a slave and must be ready, at any time, and in any place, to serve her master's pleasure.	10
19	136	The same girl who, fed by hand, is lengthily ravished over a period of Ahn, or even of a day or two, may, at another time, be merely told to stretch herself over a table.	10
19	154	Perhaps this is merely done by a single ankle ring, on her left ankle, or perhaps both of her ankles are shackled, the length of chain running through the slave ring.	10
20	303	She may also be chained for so simple a reason as that her master merely chooses to do so.	10
20	343	"The Vosk League," smiled Tasdron, "is a simple league, whose intent it is merely to control piracy on the river".	10
20	847	She had thought that she had been brought to the supper merely to attend Tasdron, her master.	10
20	1571	The first punishment, of course, and sometimes the second, is merely a terrible whipping.	10
20	1927	She had been treated as she had wished, as one who was merely mine, and must submit, in the order of nature.	10
20	2166	It will be enough for me, if I am merely allowed to lie near you".	10

Book 17. (32 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	149	You, and those with you, are merely another handful of slaves, embonded females, merely new and fresh instances of a historically familiar commodity".	10
2	128	Also, of course, sometimes the vendors, too, will merely tie up their boats near the side of the canal, particularly when the space on the cement is crowded.	10
6	125	I did not know, but I suspected that he himself was not in league with Kurii, but merely purchased wholesale lots of such girls from one or more of their agents.	10
12	104	In the simplest case a series of holes is drilled in the pole and the girl's ankles are merely fastened on the pole at whatever separation the master desires.	10
13	45	The phrase which she had repeated more than once, "I have been sent to your blankets," for example, had not been spoken as a slave girl in full cognizance of its meaning, humbly making it clear that her nearness to the male was not illicit, and begging him to consider her for his pleasure-use, but r...	10
13	89	Too, it is not merely that the woman's desire to be attractive, and her efforts to be so, are accentuated in bondage, and extremely so, but that men, for some women for the first time, at least in a serious way, begin to be attractive to them, often acutely, even painfully, so.	10
13	646	"Perhaps, rather," I said, "she merely wished you, for your own good, to be presented to others as you actually were, not as you thought you were, or thought you should be".	10
13	736	From other cars it would have seemed merely that a man, leaning forward, perhaps smiling, perhaps conversing with me, was in the back of my vehicle.	10
13	869	In any event, I merely note this, and do not comment on it.	10
13	1051	"Your assertion might be construed as meaning that you had committed some treason against yourself, or, perhaps, as meaning merely that you had revealed, or manifested, yourself.	10
13	1061	Similarly she may lie, or attempt to lie, about her responsiveness, but she is then, of course, merely a lying slave and, when found out, will be treated accordingly".	10
13	1091	"Your first having was merely the ungating of a slave, her breaching, her opening, an unimportant prefatory technicality in the history of her bondage".	10
13	1149	"You are merely a slave who yielded," I said.	10
13	1456	"In the first case, virginity is seen as something to be succeeded, and, in the second, it is seen as something which is conceived of as merely antedating the state of falarina.	10
13	1459	"In English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the...	10
13	1642	Perhaps I shall merely, for my amusement, beat you senseless".	10
13	1714	It was nothing, merely a favor for Grunt, of course, opening one of his new slaves, for the pleasure of men.	10
13	1737	I am uneasy! I am restless! I do not understand my feelings! Hold me! Handle me! Handle me! I beg it! Touch me! Touch me! Train me, if you wish! I beg to be further trained!" "You are experiencing merely the restlessness of the handled slave," I said.	10
13	1844	I had merely done a favor for Grunt, my friend, opening a slimly bodied, red-haired girl for him, one of his slaves.	10
14	74	It is not merely that it is more common nearer the perimeter but, I think, that it serves as a reminder, near the perimeter, of the reality and proximity of the red nations, whereas these same nations, or tribes, far from the perimeter tend to be regarded not only as remote but as almost mythical pe...	10
14	264	Their entire mental set, so to speak, in the furs, is oriented toward providing the master with marvelous pleasures, and, in their own case, to feel as richly and deeply as possible, and, in the end, in an uncompromised and delicious capitulation, submitting fully to their master, to obtain the surr...	10
14	521	She, too, would doubtless soon receive instruction on the modalities of pleasure and service to be exacted by a red master of a female slave, and one who was merely white.	10
14	916	When one sees a chain of beauties, fastened together, say, by the neck, or the left wrist or left ankle, it is well to remember that their locations on that sturdy, metallic bond, keeping them precisely where the master wishes, are seldom likely to be merely fortuitous.	10
14	966	Goreans, in general, not merely red savages, tend to be wary of strangers, in particular those who speak other languages or come from other territories or cities.	10
14	1358	This was appropriate, for they were merely slaves.	10
15	25	The smoke on the right is merely acknowledging the receipt of this message".	10
15	152	"He is merely curious".	10
17	319	But here she was put not to the man's feet, which is an honor for a slave, but merely to the paws of his beast.	10
17	461	Some collars are of leather, and merely lace shut, those in the Barrens, for example.	10
17	529	"How do you distinguish between what merely seems self-evident and that which is truly self-evident?" I asked.	10
19	654	To be sure, there is a controversy as to whether or not it is more humiliating for a woman to be put before masters in such a garment or merely stark naked, save, perhaps, for a brand and collar.	10
19	734	Total pleasingness, at all times and in all ways, and instant, and complete obedience, to the least whim of the master, is standardly required of Gorean female slaves, incidentally, not merely of those who wear the collars of red savages.	10

Book 18. (28 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	241	They are not merely equipment, not merely contraptions of metal or leather.	10
4	121	Most Gorean males, and their slaves, incidentally, not merely the males of the red savages, commonly sleep naked.	10
4	316	It was the first hunt, I gathered, in which they would fully participate, not riding merely at the fringes, observing the older men, but entering among the beasts themselves.	10
5	136	"It is not enough to be merely beautiful," said Cuwignaka.	10
7	182	"Often," I said, "the girl merely fears the leather, or is wary of it, and, hoping to give it a wide berth, behaves herself accordingly.	10
7	348	"I was not ordered merely to report to this lodge," she said.	10
7	872	"Out on the prairie you told me that it was not enough to be merely beautiful".	10
7	877	It may be that it is not enough, at least among the Kaiila, where there is much work to be done, to be merely beautiful".	10
9	285	Serving a supper to a young man and his mother, for example, the girl may appear merely efficient and deferential.	10
10	22	She will merely be disposed of.	10
11	32	It would now seem somewhat hypocritical on my part, would it not, to take the warpath not to deal vengeance and destruction to the enemy, but merely for my own selfish purposes, to procure a female".	10
12	612	She is generally, merely, given away or sold.	10
13	117	"I will try to prove to be better than merely satisfactory, Master," said the girl.	10
13	180	Too, I had thought that Canka had given her smaller bits and pieces, and had held on to them more tightly, than was necessary to merely feed her.	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
16	33	"And sometimes," she laughed, "I do not know when my master is merely calling me or ordering me to please him!" "As you are a slave," I said, "I do not think I would take chances in the matter".	10
17	53	"I think it was Hci's intention merely to make it seem that an attempt had been made on his life".	10
18	85	"You are merely looking for an excuse to get out of work.	10
22	237	Truth is not terrible; it is merely real".	10
32	59	He thought me one who merely dealt in trading, much like Grunt.	10
32	163	Some of them merely laid the cold metal points of the lances, or the sides of the lance blades, on her flesh.	10
37	26	I had merely ordered her to return to her place.	10
37	75	Perhaps she thought it was merely to hold her in the pit with me.	10
37	161	She squirmed a little, apparently merely to change her position.	10
43	284	The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl...	10
43	397	I was pleased to note that she was uttering a complexity of verbiage and, thus, was presumably not merely attempting to summon help.	10
44	524	It was not merely that he respected his bravery.	10
50	82	"She lies merely to avoid the rocks," said a man, sneeringly.	10

Book 19. (49 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	339	"I do not think they are necessarily stupid," he said, "merely ignorant, perhaps because untrained, or perhaps merely because they have not yet been awakened sexually, have not yet been forced to feel the slave fires in their belly, have not yet, by strong men, been made the helpless victims of thei...	10
24	90	I wore the name "Tiffany" now as Susan had worn the name "Susan," now merely as a named animal, merely by the will and decision of masters.	10
1	42	"Do not see such a woman merely in terms of such predictable and luscious commonalities," said the first man.	10
1	294	It was merely a case of mistaken identity.	10
3	65	These things, which appeared to be objective aspects of the environment were doubtless merely subjective illusions on my part, resulting from the drug or sedative.	10
3	757	Obviously such sensations are delusory, merely the effects of that drug".	10
3	858	Indeed, it seemed that here I would be expected to assume certain postures and attitudes, and genuinely feminine ones, perhaps merely because I was a woman.	10
3	867	Surely I had a right to frustrate and deny my sex if I wished! If I was afraid to be a woman, truly and fundamentally, with all that it might entail, surely I should not be forced to become one! Yet I knew that in my heart I felt a sudden, marvelous surge of hope, a sense of possible liberation, tha...	10
3	954	"I think they merely visit it, from elsewhere".	10
3	1056	"His interest in you, merely, does not appear to be in that way," she said.	10
4	25	The bowl upon inspection, the merchant becoming suspicious as to the weights involved, had turned out to be merely plated.	10
5	145	But Susan's beauty, I realized, then, was not a matter merely of features and figure, exquisite though these might be.	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	260	"We shall further assume," he said, "that Lady Sheila's figure is not merely acceptable, but quite lovely.	10
6	213	"I was merely curious," I said, irritably.	10
6	250	How pleased I was that I was free! How dreadful, how horrifying, it would be to be merely a lowly slave! "You seem nervous today, Drusus," I said.	10
6	318	Some are worn even long after the performance or event in question, perhaps to let people know that one was fortunate enough to have been the witness of a particular event or performance, or perhaps merely because of their intrinsic aesthetic value.	10
6	352	It was almost hard for me to remember that they were not merely ornaments to the city but that they also, in the Gorean manner, served a very utilitarian purpose.	10
6	502	"What is it like, being owned, and having a master," I had later asked Susan, while being served breakfast, as though merely curious.	10
6	655	Most girls in such a place, I had heard from Susan, but generally not the dancers, came merely with the price of the drink itself.	10
6	661	"As you suggest," he said, "they are merely slaves".	10
6	742	"Did you merely wish to see girls in the grated pits, or chained in their kennels, or at their rings," he asked, "or did you wish, perhaps, to gain also an idea of what goes on in such a house?" "What do you mean?" I asked.	10
6	763	"Why should it be of interest to you?" "I am merely curious," I said, tossing my head.	10
7	100	They will think you are merely a new girl, either a slave or one who, optionless, will soon be reduced to their status, one who will then be no more than they".	10
8	211	"This may be done to music," said Hermidorus, "and, as you know, there are many versions to the post dance, or pole dance, singly, or with more than one girl, with or without bonds, and so on, but here we are using it merely as a training exercise".	10
8	269	It is not merely a beautiful woman who dances, but one who can be bought and sold, one who is subject to male ownership.	10
13	122	The point of the sirik is not merely to confine a woman, but to confine her beautifully.	10
13	145	The woman in the slave collar and on the leash, covered by the sheet, her bare feet and ankles visible beneath it, would presumably be assumed to be merely a naked captive.	10
15	421	Perhaps it was merely a testing of the crews of the alarm bars.	10
17	294	He must not have seen me! He must not have seen me! I turned away a little, in the chains, as though merely to change my position.	10
19	293	Indeed, from the point of view of a new occupant, any lingering traces of my sojourn here would doubtless be interpreted as indicating the earlier tenancy of merely another slave, no different from others.	10
20	158	That he had not done these things I had hitherto supposed was merely in accord with his avowed purposes of shaming and humiliating me, making me serve as a slave in spite of the fact that I was free.	10
23	149	Or was it the action of a terrified woman sensing she had no option, if she would live, merely the act of a woman desperately bargaining for her very life with the only coin at her disposal, her beauty.	10
23	215	It had been my intention merely to be very pleasing to him; I had desired, really, to do little but give him great pleasure.	10
23	310	I wanted to love and serve, to be fully pleasing not merely in a sexual manner but in all ways, to ask nothing and give all.	10
25	74	"It is supposedly merely a surprise inspection," he said, "but one supposes there is something more to it".	10
27	48	That is the mistake of thinking that you can escape the full implications of your position by merely adopting what you think is slave behavior.	10
27	201	Sometimes, too, of course, she is merely sold into a lower slavery, that she may earnestly endeavor, perhaps through years of effort, to work her way up again to, say, a single-master-single-slave relationship.	10
28	59	It must be understood, of course, that the girl is offering not merely the luscious fruits on the plate to the guest but, too, if he should be interested, the fruits of her beauty.	10
29	97	This was not merely because I feared him but had to do also with the situation in which I found myself.	10
30	460	Perhaps she expected merely to be leashed.	10
31	512	To be sure, the use to which Miles of Argentum had just subjected me, and I was well aware of this, had not been merely casual, a simple convenience use.	10
31	558	I was merely Tiffany, a feast slave, brought to Argentum with others to serve at the victory feast.	10
31	775	"You did not buy me merely for this," I gasped, "for wench sport, to make me cry out and sob, and yield to you.	10
32	30	The man had been described to me by the girl, who had seemed shaken by her encounter with him, merely as one who was obviously a natural master of women such as we, slaves.	10
33	416	"First of all, we must understand that the sleen are merely following a scent.	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	417	It is not merely that she is totally dependent on him, how she will be dressed, if dressed, what she will be fed, and in what quantities, what wines, if any, she may be permitted to sip, what liberties she will be allowed, to what confinements she may be subjected, and so on.	10
36	658	That is merely a delightful ancillary accompaniment to their primary purposes which are those of love, pleasure and service.	10

Book 20. (34 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	144	Her conquest this night was not to be merely over me, a fellow named Bosk, merely a fellow from another city, but more importantly, I gathered, over Flaminius, her rival, as well.	10
1	748	I doubted that some of the things she had done, in all their abundance and richness, had been merely thought up on the spur of the moment.	10
1	1047	"Surely not merely to play Kaissa?" He was now resetting the pieces.	10
2	1094	"It seems likely then, if he is a common thief, that he would have merely followed you here, and is not the fellow who spoke to Henrius, or who would be connected with the booth in some way".	10
2	1615	I gathered that any sexual experiences she had had hitherto would have been those merely of a free woman.	10
3	109	If she were really the mistress of a work gang we presumably would not have constituted the work gang but would merely have been added to it.	10
3	136	But then, if that were so, I wondered why she was having recourse to this elaborate pretense of being merely the mistress of a common work chain.	10
3	222	I had merely been one of fifteen brought into her chains.	10
4	253	"It is merely a plan on your part to escape".	10
5	104	"I shall merely cry out.	10
5	408	Presumably it was merely her intention to mislead me.	10
5	448	"Many free women believe they can have anything they want, merely by asking for it, or demanding it," I said, "but now you see that that is not true, at least not in a world where there are true men".	10
6	95	It would not be unusual for her, in a crowded place, to overhear remarks, perhaps whispers or sneers, of which she is the obvious object, such as "Shameless slut," "Brazen baggage," "As immodest as a slave," "I wonder who her master is," and "Put a collar on her!" And if she should attempt to confro...	10
6	712	"Perhaps you are merely trying to save yourself from sleen," he mused.	10
6	775	"Is it true that you are as yet merely an uncollared slave?" asked a man of the free woman.	10
6	790	"But that may be merely their disguise, to take unwary girls unawares".	10
6	868	"All free women are merely uncollared slaves".	10
6	1312	"If I had anything to do with them," I said, "to which I do not admit, of course, let us consider them merely as copper-bowl coins, coins such as might be gathered in the pursuit of your normal activities".	10
6	1395	"You are merely interested in obtaining admittance to Brundisium," he said.	10
7	145	Sometimes it is desirable to have the female look very closely and clearly on the whip and, at other times, it is better for her merely to understand that it is in her immediate vicinity, somewhere, and that she may not, now, turn about to determine its specific location.	10
7	361	What shall be our fate first, I wonder, to merely starve in simple dignity or to perish in shame from such humiliation?" "You are wrong about at least one thing, Boots," said Chino.	10
9	499	Gone now were her voluminous, absurd garments, replaced merely by some loops of slave thongs holding her hands behind her back.	10
10	253	It is not merely slaves who can feel the pangs of hunger.	10
10	437	Too often, however, it seemed they were merely sold to peasants in distant villages as sex and work slaves.	10
10	902	It would be unfair, surely, to confine that delicious intelligence merely to the Lady Yanina and myself.	10
12	92	He was the sort of fellow who did not merely play the game but contributed to it.	10
12	159	"Neither of you own me!" "Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave," I said, "even one who is in the least bit displeasing, even one he might merely feel like disciplining.	10
12	694	"Shall you be sold for sleen feed? Shall we contrive exquisite tortures for you, say, cutting off bits of your body and cooking them, and forcing you to eat them, until from the loss of blood and tissue, you die, or should we bind you and sew you in a sack, your head exposed, with rabid urts, or sha...	10
16	134	"I was merely wondering if such extreme exertions on their behalf might, under the possible circumstances, be fully justified".	10
16	146	"It is as I feared," groaned Chino, supposedly merely to Lecchio.	10
21	45	So I had thought it useful to refer to the former Lady Yanina as merely "pretty".	10
21	83	I had found what I had been looking for in a room apparently devoted to Kaissa, in the midst of what were apparently merely the records of games, jotted on scraps of paper.	10
21	593	"It was merely that I did not expect them to do so".	10
22	136	I regarded them, Rowena, with her long, yellow braids, and dark-haired, shapely Telitsia, once of the scribes, now merely a girl of Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10

Book 21. (45 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	214	Too, I suspect your ejection of the civilian population from Torcadino is not merely political, to appear to show concern, generosity, and mercy, nor merely expedient, to remove them from the city, thus conserving supplies and removing possible Cosian sympathizers from behind your back, but to incre...	10
3	118	Some, doubtless, merely came from their villages, or the remains of their villages, down to the side of the road to beg as the wagons passed.	10
3	178	Sometimes a passing army desires merely to amplify its forces, or replace losses, particularly among the lighter arms, such as bowmen, slingers and javelin men.	10
3	312	Too, I noted that their interests had not been confined merely to foodstuffs.	10
4	28	Most often little official notice is taken of them, no war challenges being issued, and they are regarded merely as peripheral, unwelcome itinerants, uninvited guests, dangerous, temporary visitors with whom the local folks must for a time live uneasily.	10
5	196	If this woman were merely another beggar he was ready, clearly, to strike her from his path.	10
5	405	It was merely another of the many, unlimited prerogatives attaching to my relationship to her, that of master to slave.	10
5	446	Indeed, most importantly, the entire condition of the female slave, merely that she is a slave, bound or unbound, bespeaks the delicious and exciting factuality of her profound vulnerability.	10
8	72	The wagons had not merely been burned, that their cargoes might be destroyed, but, clearly, had been ransacked.	10
9	206	"I thought you were merely being noble," said Hurtha.	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	276	To be sure, perhaps it is merely the collar, and the uncompromising male domination, which so unlocks, and calls forth, the passion, service and love of a female.	10
13	70	They presumably, like them, would merely find themselves with new masters.	10
13	225	You are merely, and simply, the captive 437.	10
13	231	On the other hand perhaps there were merely more females to come in.	10
13	232	The numbers, it seemed, rather certainly, were prearranged numbers, and not merely numbers indicating the order of capture.	10
14	58	"Thus it is more as though one form of municipal administration had merely succeeded another".	10
15	168	If anything, he seemed on the surface little more than a simple soldier, perhaps no more than merely another unpretentious, candid, efficient officer.	10
15	555	"How is that you would have had her stolen, not for her own beauty, for she is prize collar meat, which I would think would have been a sufficient reason for doing so, nor as an insult to the Polemarkos, which seems plausible, but merely to interrogate?" I asked.	10
15	559	I wondered if he were kind, or merely indifferent.	10
15	560	Did he merely wish to show her what could be done to her body, that it was susceptible to such delicious torment, that she would become more cognizant of her collar? Or did he wish to put her the more at his mercy, that she might then, knowing what could be done with her, beg again, and again, for h...	10
16	189	"Soon we will both be evaluated, not as mother and daughter, but merely as women, and be taken on our diverse ways".	10
16	569	"The way you rubbed your wrists, that suggests you were not merely bound with customary tightness, but punishment bound".	10
16	747	There you will be evaluated, bid upon and purchased, as different animals, as separate properties, merely as independent items up for sale, solely on your own merits.	10
16	806	"Master?" "Merely to see you then would be to want to strip you and put you in a collar".	10
16	983	"We will exist merely for their service and pleasure," said the girl.	10
16	1392	She was, I am sure, merely attempting to improve her claim as to being an Alar.	10
21	141	My question had not been prompted, of course, merely by the obvious consideration that the ubar's cloak might seem an attractive prize to a strong, ambitious man, but by the sober understanding that Ar was in a situation of crisis, whether she knew it or not.	10
22	345	I trusted this was merely from the disrepair and age of the boards.	10
24	192	"How could I know that you did not merely find this, or buy it, or steal it?" he asked.	10
25	161	"They are slaves, and you are merely free.	10
25	262	"We are merely keeping you for a friend".	10
25	300	It was not merely that they were nude and that their necks were locked in steel collars.	10
25	490	"It was merely that she attempted to elicit my pity, to win my choice, telling me that if she was not chosen tonight she would be whipped".	10
25	1597	I, on the other hand, after lifting it toward my lips, merely returned it to the table.	10
25	2149	"You make it sound as though it were merely a matter of physical actions," she said.	10
25	2370	Bondage is merely an institutional recognition and formalization of the proper and natural relationship between the sexes.	10
26	15	She was lifting her body piteously to a man who now, apparently having aroused her to a point where she was in an agony of need, was merely toying with her.	10
26	25	They found themselves responding in the darkness to unseen masters merely as helpless, anonymous love objects.	10
26	149	I no longer found it judicious to speculate that their intent was merely to make polite contact and transmit information.	10
26	399	I was merely inquiring, before and now, if you would like to have it removed.	10
26	929	She did not mention it, but it was not merely her arms and shoulders which were bared.	10
26	1378	He might merely have you utter a formula of enslavement, though, again, doubtless in the presence of witnesses, who might sign a paper certifying their witnessing of your declaration.	10
26	1479	To be sure, such things may also be done to a girl for no particular reason, but merely at the master's whim.	10
27	120	"Do you think being a slave is merely a matter of crawling about your master's legs, and licking and kissing, and serving his intimate pleasures?" "I do not know, Master," she said.	10

Book 22. (38 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	689	Why could they not recognize this? Why could they not explicitly acknowledge this truth, so patent a truth? Because the slave was merely a slave, nothing, only a silken beast and a shapely property! And how foolish a slave to hope that a master might care for one so worthless and despicable as she! ...	10
1	81	I drew it at the hem down more against my body, perhaps defensively, that I might feel it on me the more, that I might assure myself, I told myself, the more of its presence, that I was truly garmented, but this, too, of course, merely confirmed upon me not uncertainly the insidious disturbing subtl...	10
3	6	To be sure, it was merely that I was kneeling to draw forth a book.	10
3	69	Let them think of me merely as Doreen, their co-worker or friend, the quiet reference librarian.	10
3	283	Why then had they set the door awry? With a sinking feeling I realized perhaps it had amused them, that it must have been merely to inform me that there was no place, really, to hide! Too, there seemed something symbolic in this.	10
4	44	You are merely still simple, and naive.	10
4	347	It was merely that I thought it might be informative and salubrious for you to be awakened thusly, that you might then, from the beginning, obtain an inkling as to what, for you, was to be the nature of your new world".	10
6	20	We had not actually been paid for, as I understood it, except for a deposit, and were merely being sent on consignment to the wholesaler, who, similarly, for deposits, filling his own orders, would deliver us to various retailers.	10
6	38	I should have rejoiced, I suppose, that he had gone his way, he who was so fierce and had hated me so keenly, doubtless never to lay eyes on me again, content doubtless now to merely ponder, upon occasion, with amusement, the fate to which he had consigned me, but, to be honest, I would not have min...	10
6	135	I had gathered that it was not really unusual, particularly in certain places, though in others it was apparently regarded as being tactless or vulgar, for slaves to be marched naked, in coffle, through the streets, for example, for their own edification or instruction, that they be helped to unders...	10
9	518	I had then understood that, despite all my hopes, I was really, in the end, nothing to him, only another pretty Earth girl, to be brought here merely in the line of his business, to wear the collar and lick the whip.	10
10	116	He had then, merely by holding her arm, had her guide him, involuntarily, to where she had hidden the ring.	10
10	484	But still, even as "slave meat," it was I who had brought the highest price! I wished Teibar could have known that, that his catch from the library on Earth had brought the highest price in the market, and on her first sale, too! But I supposed that he, the monster, the beast, would have merely cong...	10
10	493	Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.	10
11	902	Had it been merely a matter of face and figure I do not think the effect would have been the same.	10
11	964	I do not know, really, whether I had done this to myself in the dance, which is possible, or if my arousal had merely come upon me in the course of the dance, but I was aroused.	10
11	1281	It may be, of course, that this was merely another kindness on his part, that I be now reminded of my status, that I wore a collar, that I was naught but a slave, I do not know.	10
13	188	But regardless of the truth or falsity of such things, and regardless of the explanations or reasons for the things which lay so deep within me, whether they were recollective or merely the irrepressible fruits of genetic truths, so anomalous in my own time, so uncharacteristic of everything I had b...	10
13	330	When your popularity has crested you will perhaps subside to being merely another luscious and marvelous slave".	10
13	423	"Then it is being done merely to improve you, to make you even more desirable".	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
14	85	Sometimes the master, having relished her beauty, merely has her reclothe herself and return to her labors.	10
17	40	Others merely enjoy the interplay and logic, often applauding an excellent point when scored by one of the advocates.	10
19	128	If I were inclined to attempt an escape, even clad merely in such a way, I presumably would not get far.	10
23	78	This sort of thing would not be merely a matter of the brand and collar, of course, significant though they might be, but of the entire radiant transformation of her womanhood as it blossomed in bondage, she now in her place in nature.	10
24	585	Too, this can be done with seeming naturalness, apparently merely applying their labors elsewhere.	10
26	140	It was not merely that I feared such men but that Mirus, I knew, was from Brundisium.	10
27	307	In venturing out into the night they were not unaccustomed to carrying lanterns with them, or torches, and that for so simple a purpose as merely to see their way.	10
28	193	"But, too, it may have merely been hungry".	10
28	260	Indeed, it is a not uncommon first step in the enslavement of a free woman merely to dress her as a slave.	10
29	335	He was merely exacting his due.	10
30	80	I suddenly hated being a slave! Was this possible? That I should be so casually put, so cordially put, in the liberality of a Gorean host, at the disposal of guests? But of course it was possible! I was only a slave! But why would he do this to me, to me? Was I truly to him only this, only another s...	10
32	172	"Do you really think, too," he said, "I picked you out from hundreds on Earth, and selected you, screening you according to my own tastes and criteria, as my final and most exquisite Earth capture merely to bring you here to be a free woman?" "No, Master!" I said.	10
33	25	He might bind me, I supposed, merely to secure me for the night.	10
33	26	On the other hand, I hoped that he might now bind me not for the night but rather for the evening, either in such a way as merely to make clear to me that I was a slave, little more than a symbolic binding, or even in such a way that I should be utterly helpless to resist his attentions, whatever th...	10
33	42	Now, of course, I was merely a slave, obeying the orders of her master.	10
33	75	Surely that had not been done merely to put me to the purposes of others.	10
33	283	You are merely a collared slave.	10

Book 23. (36 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	396	I wondered if the driver had actually been carrying a Home Stone or if his assertion had been merely a trick to discourage predation.	10
1	521	I wondered if the fellow in the wagon had acquired the individual under it merely for his interest and pleasure, or perhaps, too, as a way of encouraging his companion to take her own relationship with him more seriously.	10
1	580	"You were merely utilized by a casual passer-by," I said.	10
2	437	Accordingly I gave her little time but merely took her in my arms and unilaterally, forcibly, briefly, crushed her lips beneath mine, and then flung her back against the logs.	10
2	452	"Though I am of high caste," she said, "I have permitted you to kiss me, and not merely upon a sleeve or gloved hand, but wholly upon my lips, and not even through a veil, no, upon my exposed and naked lips themselves, unveiled, almost as though I might be a slave! Therefore, in return for this ines...	10
6	383	I often merely turn my back upon them, for they are fools.	10
6	427	"Is it true," I asked, "that sometimes, when a fellow bought you out of your difficulties, you merely turned your back upon him?" "Yes," she said.	10
6	439	You will now, in a sense, for the time being at least, merely continue doing that, that is, continue to receive your living from men, only now, as opposed to before, you will be doing something for it, and, indeed, something men enjoy and appreciate.	10
8	472	"You are now my captive," I told her, "and I am going to keep you, for a time, though for perhaps no more than a few Ehn, as merely my servant, though a full servant.	10
10	215	"Thus," I said, "it seems that it is not, really, that the women of Tyros are superior to the women of Cos, but merely that, in your particular case, you are inferior to the Lady Elene".	10
10	301	On the other hand, its relationship to the Earth device may be merely a coincidental one, a white cloth, in effect, a blank flag, seeming to be a reasonably natural device to signify neutrality.	10
11	80	It is merely an additional element in her punishment.	10
11	120	Sometimes a slave is whipped merely to remind her that she is a slave.	10
13	51	Well might she envy those whose fate would be merely a brand, a collar and the personally irreversible, universally honored, absolute helplessness of Gorean bondage.	10
15	544	Cosians would see you, you hoped, not in terms of politics, but merely in terms of loot.	10
17	44	At another bridge, Vosk fishermen, from the vicinity of Ar's Station, fought, perhaps men who had merely been trapped in the city when the Cosians had taken their positions, and, at another bridge, huntsmen, from the interior, perhaps similarly detained.	10
17	404	They are not merely for girls chained there on furs in the moonlight, for the use of strollers, off-duty guards and such.	10
19	43	I do not think it likely that all the incidents in them, in their detail, are merely based on the reports of others.	10
20	310	"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved in this operat...	10
21	79	It is not merely pleasant to own a slave, to dress her as you please, if you wish to permit her clothing, to have her at your bidding, to do with her as you please; it is exalting.	10
21	309	She had not said "my place," which might suggest she had a right to it, but "a place," which was compatible with it merely being a place she took, with or without title, so to speak.	10
21	462	If there is any objection to my conduct, surely it must be merely that I was not, in your opinion, sufficiently patriotic, and surely it is no crime to be insufficiently patriotic.	10
21	552	They had merely been playing with a slave.	10
21	759	"I determined then in the cell," I said, "to take action, not merely, of course, for her sake, but for mine as well, as I could not know for certain what you would eventually decide in my case, nor could I count on being released from a burning citadel by Cosians.	10
21	837	Her rape then is not intended to be a pleasant but ephemeral pleasuring, the seizure of a snack of female, but rather an appetizer, merely the first course in a feast of subdued female, a banquet of conquered woman.	10
21	1050	She knows that she is now merely another lovely domestic animal, one loving her master, and grateful to be owned by him.	10
21	1154	There is nothing chronological in this, of course; it is a cognomen merely of status, a cultural, sociological matter.	10
21	1378	But, in time, it is likely that their relationship, mercifully, as such things fade into the past and tend to be forgotten, will become a simpler one, that merely of master and slave.	10
23	109	Indeed, many of the petty recalcitrances and rebellions of slave girls, and such, may be seen merely as attempts on their part to beg their masters to be strong with them, attempts somewhat like those of a child, sometimes, to reassure themselves of the reality and strength of the authority to which...	10
23	182	I think you used me merely to relax yourself before the door to the cell was opened".	10
23	183	"'Merely'?" I asked.	10
24	123	How lonely and unhappy she had been as a free woman! How right she looked, clad in the garments of a slave! Yet I had not enslaved her, but had kept her, to her frustration, merely as a full servant.	10
24	655	Some masters merely arrange the girls in a simple order of height, beginning with the tallest girl, which, to be sure, has a nice effect.	10
24	691	It is not merely that it would be, in virtue of its commonness, the most likely coin for such a purpose, but, rather, that custom prescribed its use in such contexts.	10
24	729	It was not merely a domestic animal, but it was perhaps the least prepossessing and least valuable of such beasts, commonly being thought of as ugly, stupid, and dirty.	10
24	958	That it is the same name, in a sense, too, might, from her point of view, and perhaps that of the master, tie her in with the former free woman, that, say, the former Jane So-and-so is now merely "Jane," the slave of so-and-so.	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	68	Do you truly think it is a simple anomaly that so many vessels, flotillas of light craft, on such short notice, could be obtained in Ven and Turmus? Was that merely unaccountable good fortune? And now do you think it is merely unaccountable ill fortune that these same vessels, in a matter of days, s...	10
31	310	On the other hand, perhaps it was merely that he could not bring himself to eat it, that he was hoarding it merely as a last resort against the ravages of imminent starvation.	10
1	357	She had seemed to be crying, but perhaps it was merely the heat from the paga which she had, with the back of her hand, wiped from her eyes.	10
1	893	She may love her brand and collar, and beg them, and rejoice in them, but I do not think this is merely because they make her so exciting, desirable and beautiful; I think it is also, at least, because they proclaim publicly to the world what she is, because by means of them her deepest truth, freei...	10
1	1033	"She is, you see," said Philebus, "merely one of my paga sluts".	10
3	593	Too, he was of Ar's Station, and not merely Port Kar.	10
5	48	"Perhaps, then," said he, "he was merely scourged and beheaded".	10
12	343	"And then," I said, "I think it possible that your face might be no longer merely pretty, but, flushed and radiant, tending to express in its way your happiness, your fulfillment, your truth, your awareness that you then occupied, and would continue to occupy, and helplessly, your proper place in na...	10
18	224	On the other hand, perhaps he had merely wanted to keep me from it.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	77	The typical Gorean master has no interest whatsoever in whipping a slave merely to whip her, any more than he would whip another animal, say, a verr or kaiila, merely to whip them.	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	287	Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...	10
44	276	This was not merely a matter of their much greater size and strength, enabling them to handle us as though we might be children, enabling them to do with us as they wished, nor was it a matter merely of the implacability of our bonds, denying us even the most meaningless opportunity to try to defend...	10

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1020	They had merely summoned it forth, imperiously, even against her will, merely commanded it, merely liberated it.	10
16	521	How that thrills me! But, of course, he would not wish to do so! Certainly he would not have brought me here, and taken all this time and trouble, merely to dispose of me, merely to have me sold! She saw, occasionally, among the crowds, a free woman, robed and veiled.	10
17	900	A man sees a girl he wants and his objective judgment as to the market worth of the given property can be clouded, perhaps by simple desire, a simple desire to buy and own, totally, a particularly delightful, curvaceous property, but perhaps by something else, too, mixed with desire, and powerful lu...	10
21	133	No need for him to see his former slave as she was now, now merely another evidence of the victory of his foes, now no more than another article amongst the loot of his enemies, now merely another item in the abounding wealth of Cos.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	101	Its usual purpose, then, is not merely to hold the lovely prisoner but to make it clear to any observer, casual or otherwise, that she is powerless, vulnerable, defenseless, and unprotected, accordingly, not merely to confine her, but to expose her, or should one say, in the case of a slave, as she ...	10
8	698	How is she more than merely another helpless, cringing, shackled slave, and how is he more than merely another male, another possible buyer, in his robes, so free, and strong, looking down on her? But he has found his love slave, and she, to her joy, has been found by her love master.	10
8	760	For all I knew I was still owned by the house, and I was merely being vended through this outlet, and the small fellow might be merely a professional auctioneer, hired for each sale.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	404	Perhaps it was merely to let me know that I had not been forgotten, or to let me know I was still under "consideration," or, perhaps, merely, to let me know that, in a very real sense, I was not free, but theirs, and that they could apprehend me when they wished, and do with me what they pleased.	10