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| 4 | 81 |
For themselves, particularly among the Lower Castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name. |
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| 4 | 83 |
On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices. |
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| 4 | 85 |
The second name, which would correspond to the use-name on Gor, is common property, a public sound not sacred or to be protected. |
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| 7 | 95 |
"I do not ask your name, Warrior," he said, "nor will I repeat the name of your city before the Submitted One, but know that you and your city are honored by the Spider People". |
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| 8 | 140 |
"Is that a use-name?" "No," I said, "it is my true name". |
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| 1 | 1 |
A Handful of Earth My name is Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 2 |
The name is supposed to have been shortened in the fifteenth century from the Italian surname Caboto. |
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| 1 | 7 |
You may remark my first name, and I assure you that it gave me quite as much trouble as it might you, particularly during my early school years, when it occasioned almost as many contests of physical skill as my red hair. |
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| 1 | 8 |
Let us say simply that it is not a common name, not common on this world of ours. |
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| 1 | 13 |
Surprisingly enough, I managed to gain entrance to the University of Oxford, but I shall not choose to embarrass my college by entering its somewhat too revered name in this narrative. |
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| 1 | 56 |
I read, in a rather archaic English script inscribed on the envelope, two words—my name, Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 59 |
I called his name, laughing. |
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| 1 | 121 |
Perhaps only one man could open that envelope—he whose print fitted the strange lock, he whose name was Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 126 |
The lettering was in the same script as my name on the outside of the envelope. |
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| 2 | 113 |
"Gor," he said, "is the name of this world. |
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| 2 | 155 |
As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. |
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| 3 | 162 |
This was my introduction to my instructor in arms, whose name was also Tarl. |
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| 4 | 82 |
Often only the closest relatives know the real name. |
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| 4 | 84 |
Perhaps something of the same sort lingers even on our native Earth, where the first name of a person is reserved for use by those who know him intimately and presumably wish him no harm. |
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| 4 | 86 |
At the level of the Second Knowledge, of course, the High Castes, at least in general, recognize the baseless superstition of the Lower Castes and use their own names comparatively freely, usually followed by the name of their city. |
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| 4 | 87 |
For example, I would have given my name as Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, or, more simply, as Tarl of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 4 | 154 |
Then, beginning with the lowest tier, each member of the Council spoke in succession, giving his name and pronouncing that he, too, accepted the word of the blond swordsman. |
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| 5 | 33 |
I knew little more about her than her name, Sana, and the fact that she was a slave from the City of Thentis. |
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| 5 | 34 |
The Older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city famed for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes its name. |
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| 5 | 58 |
I knew nothing about her, except that her name was Talena, that she was rumored to be one of the beauties of Ar, and that I was supposed to kill her. |
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| 5 | 121 |
I realized that she had spoken to me as a free woman, using my name. |
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| 6 | 87 |
It said, "My name is Nar, and I am of the Spider People". |
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| 8 | 138 |
"May I ask your name?" she asked tactfully. |
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| 8 | 141 |
"Talena is my true name," she said. |
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| 8 | 142 |
Of High Caste, it was natural that she was above the common superstitions connected with revealing one's name. |
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| 9 | 54 |
The name of the disease itself, Dar-Kosis, is almost never mentioned. |
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| 9 | 107 |
"You need not know her name or lineage," I said. |
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| 10 | 68 |
"If your father is a merchant, tell me his name," he said. |
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| 12 | 145 |
Carved on it, crudely, was a single letter in an archaic Gorean script, that single letter which, in the old spelling, would have been the name of the city. |
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| 13 | 77 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 16 | 111 |
"Give me your name," I demanded, "so that I may report to Pa-Kur who it is that denies his message to his future Ubara". |
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| 16 | 142 |
I suppressed an impulse to call her name; I restrained an impulse to leap to the bars, to seize her and to crush her to them and to my lips. |
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| 18 | 173 |
The thought flamed through me in the violent delirium of battle that in those moments I was many men, an army, that no man could stand against me, that it was not my blade or my heart they faced but something I myself only dimly sensed, something intangible but irresistible, an avalanche, a storm, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 91 |
I wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name. |
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| 3 | 92 |
Members of low castes often call themselves by a use-name, reserving the real name for intimates and friends, to protect it against capture by a sorcerer or worker of spells who might use it to do them harm. |
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| 19 | 77 |
"Speak, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," said Kron, using the name of my city as easily as he might have said the name of any other. |
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| 21 | 271 |
That name which he has had from birth, by which he has called himself and knows himself, that name which is so much a part of his own conception of himself, of his own true and most intimate identity, is suddenly gone. |
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| 1 | 183 |
The envelope bore my name and address. |
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| 2 | 33 |
Tarl is a common name on Gor. |
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| 3 | 93 |
Somehow I sensed that Zosk was his real name. |
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| 5 | 6 |
An ancient poet, who incredibly enough to the Gorean mind had sung the glories of many of the cities of Gor, had spoken of Ko-ro-ba as the Towers of the Morning, and it is sometimes spoken of by that name. |
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| 6 | 74 |
The young man approaches her, bearing a slave collar, its engraving proclaiming his name and city. |
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| 6 | 175 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 65 |
"Outlaw," said he, "what is your name?" "Tarl," I responded. |
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| 7 | 78 |
"Your name is the most hated on Gor," she said, her voice flat, her eyes not meeting mine. |
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| 8 | 76 |
"Who are you, Stranger?" "I am a man of no city," I said, "whose name is Tarl". |
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| 8 | 77 |
I wanted no more of the havoc I had wreaked earlier by the mere mention of the name of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 9 | 165 |
"My name is stitched into the leather of the sack". |
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| 9 | 168 |
It was also the name of a species of tiny, brightly orange reptile, the most venomous on Gor. |
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| 9 | 174 |
"In whose name?" I demanded. |
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| 9 | 175 |
"In the name of Lara," said the man, "Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 11 | 55 |
"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 166 |
"I do not know her name," said Ost. |
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| 12 | 62 |
"Tell me about him," I said, "but first tell me your name". |
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| 12 | 64 |
"What is your name?" "Tarl," I said. |
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| 14 | 56 |
I seized the ankle ring, and noted as I had expected that the name of its city had been filed away. |
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| 14 | 58 |
The slave shook in his yoke at the mention of this name. |
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| 15 | 41 |
Yet I knew there would be tarnsmen in Tharna, and good ones, for her name was respected among the martial, hostile cities of Gor. |
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| 18 | 22 |
"What is his name?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 61 |
They shouted my name, and, without fear, that of my city. |
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| 21 | 266 |
"What is your name?" I asked the girl. |
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| 21 | 267 |
"A slave has no name," she said. |
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| 21 | 269 |
On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names. |
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| 21 | 270 |
Indeed, from the Gorean's point of view, one of the most fearful things about slavery is that one loses one's name. |
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| 21 | 275 |
"I am content," I said, "to call you by the name you bore when you were free". |
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| 21 | 277 |
"What was your name when you were free?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 167 |
I ask this in the name of Lara, and of the city of Tharna and its people. |
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| 24 | 168 |
And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart. |
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| 24 | 207 |
"Take up your sword," she said, "in the name of Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 24 | 210 |
"I take up my sword," he said, "in the name of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 24 | 228 |
Once again she graciously requested that the weapon be lifted in her name, and it was. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 279 |
On the other hand, I, like many Gorean masters, provided the girl was not testing or challenging me, and provided that free women, or others, were not present whom I had no wish to offend or upset, preferred as a matter of fact to have my own name on the girl's lips, for I think, with acknowledged v... |
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| 2 | 3 |
I did not ask his name nor he mine. |
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| 3 | 66 |
He knew my name. |
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| 3 | 67 |
Who was waiting? But of course he would know my name, and those who would be waiting would be the Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 3 | 74 |
"My name is Parp," he said, standing back in the passage. |
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| 3 | 79 |
It seemed a strange name for a Priest-King. |
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| 3 | 84 |
"It's not much of a name for a Priest-King, but then I'm not much of a Priest-King". |
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| 5 | 69 |
But on her collar there was not written the name of her owner and his city, as I would have expected. |
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| 8 | 94 |
"I am Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," I said to her, telling her my name and city for the first time. |
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| 8 | 95 |
"My city is Treve," she said, for the first time telling me the name of her city. |
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| 9 | 141 |
"A slender, dark-haired girl," I said, "whose name was Talena". |
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| 10 | 125 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 14 | 85 |
The first odor I came to recognize was Misk's name, and it was delightful to then discover, as I became more practiced and sensitive, that the odor was the same as his own. |
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| 14 | 87 |
There was not much save my name and city, that I was a Matok under the supervision of Misk, that I had no record-scars and that I might be dangerous. |
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| 16 | 68 |
"His name was Nar," I said, "and he would rather have died than injure a rational creature". |
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| 17 | 24 |
Literally what hearing the expression from Sarm meant was that he had had the item specially entered into his translator tapes and correlated with a random odor, much as if we had decided to invent a name to stand for some novel relation or object. |
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| 17 | 118 |
"Is this what was done once on the road to Ko-ro-ba, to a man from Ar, who spoke to me in the name of Priest-Kings?" "Of course," said Sarm. |
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| 18 | 143 |
"Do you know his name?" I asked. |
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| 18 | 145 |
"We—both of us—know his name. |
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| 26 | 276 |
I smiled at Vika's very natural correction of her mode of addressing me, for a slave girl is seldom permitted, at least publicly, to address her master by his name, only his title. |
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| 26 | 277 |
The privilege of using his name, of having it on her lips, is, according to the most approved custom, reserved for that of a free woman, in particular a Free Companion. |
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| 26 | 278 |
Gorean thinking on this matter tends to be expressed by the saying that a slave girl grows bold if her lips are allowed to touch the name of her master. |
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| 28 | 174 |
Somewhat to their embarrassment but for their own safety the Priest-Kings who had joined Misk wore painted on the back and front of their thorax the block letter which in the Gorean alphabet would be the first letter of Misk's name. |
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| 33 | 95 |
I would not reveal to him my name, my caste, nor city. |
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| 35 | 35 |
Indeed, the ships were regarded as vehicles of a type forbidden to men by Priest-Kings and their passengers were attacked in the name of the very Priest-Kings from which they had come. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 239 |
He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names. |
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| 8 | 240 |
It was an English name, but such are not unknown on Gor, having been passed down, perhaps, for more than a thousand years, the name of an ancestor, perhaps brought to Gor by Priest-Kings in what might have been the early Middle Ages of Earth. |
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| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
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| 11 | 102 |
"Your name is Aphris of Turia," he said to her, giving her a name. |
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| 11 | 103 |
"My name is Aphris of Turia," she said, accepting her name at his hands. |
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| 2 | 21 |
But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a... |
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| 2 | 37 |
Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes... |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
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| 2 | 181 |
"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th... |
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| 3 | 11 |
"My name is Tarl Cabot," I said. |
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| 5 | 94 |
I repeated the name slowly, trying to sound it out. |
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| 5 | 100 |
It was thus I first learned the name of the man whom I understood to be Ubar of this fierce people. |
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| 6 | 50 |
"My name is Elizabeth Cardwell," she said. |
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| 6 | 108 |
"Tell them my name is Elizabeth Cardwell," she said. |
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| 7 | 205 |
Yet it seemed strange that anyone, no matter who, would dare to use the name of Priest-Kings falsely. |
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| 8 | 359 |
One of the best among the wagons I had heard was a Kassar slave, a swift Turian wench whose name was Dina. |
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| 9 | 112 |
I partook of the libation out of respect for Priest-Kings, for one in particular, whose name was Misk. |
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| 9 | 117 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you know my name?" "One hears of such things," he said. |
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| 9 | 262 |
I was pleased to see that she, at least, did not know my name. |
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| 10 | 68 |
"Tarl Cabot!" It seemed like lightning to us both that she had cried my name as might have a free woman. |
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| 10 | 445 |
Fortunately, however, the warrior of the Wagon Peoples could withdraw from the combat any time before his name had actually been officially entered in the lists of the games. |
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| 10 | 491 |
The judge now entered the name of Kamchak of the Tuchuks on his list. |
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| 11 | 39 |
"Name your price!" Kamchak looked at me. |
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| 11 | 62 |
"You do not even have a name," hissed the little merchant. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Kamchak would undoubtedly continue to call her Aphris, but it would be now his name for her and not her own. |
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| 11 | 65 |
A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal. |
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| 12 | 341 |
"My name is Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, Mr. |
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| 13 | 200 |
Kamchak had never been able to pronounce her name, which he regarded as of barbarian length and complexity. |
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| 13 | 204 |
On the other hand, Kamchak could say the sound I have represented as "vella" quite easily and would upon occasion use this as Elizabeth's name. |
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| 15 | 99 |
* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh... |
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| 16 | 162 |
"I would introduce our hooded friend," explained Saphrar, "but even I do not know his name nor face—only that he stands high among the Paravaci and accordingly has been of great use to me". |
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| 16 | 228 |
"What is his name?" I demanded. |
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| 16 | 242 |
"How was it," I asked, "that you, who had never seen me, knew me and spoke my name at the banquet?" "You had been well described to me by the gray fellow," said Saphrar. |
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| 16 | 249 |
"It was an amusement on my part," smiled Saphrar, "to speak your name at that time—to see what you would do—to give you something, so to speak, to stir in your wine". |
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| 16 | 295 |
How else would he dare to use the name of Priest-Kings on the message in the message collar?" I knew, of course, that the man was not a Priest-King. |
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| 19 | 36 |
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o... |
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| 20 | 114 |
It was a common name in Ar, whence many of the mercenaries had come. |
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| 21 | 269 |
"What is your name?" demanded the officer. |
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| 21 | 276 |
"My name," he said, "is Harold—of the Tuchuks!" There was now screaming on the walls, the rushing of guardsmen toward the wagon. |
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| 21 | 290 |
"I had a friend," Harold was saying, "whose name was Tarl Cabot. |
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| 25 | 33 |
"Whose name is on your collar?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 37 |
Even those who could read, or pretended to be able to, would affix their sign on the collar as well as their name, so that others who could not read could know to whom the slave belonged. |
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| 25 | 281 |
"I heard," said the girl, seriously, "from a slave—whose name was Hereena—that tomorrow there will be great fighting". |
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| 25 | 620 |
The collar, I knew, bore my name, proclaiming her, should I wish, my slave. |
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| 25 | 913 |
"What is his name?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 915 |
"And his name?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 389 |
He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel". |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 228 |
Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the Priest-King kind. |
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| 17 | 199 |
Further, games and races which he had sponsored in the name of the Hinrabians now ceased, and those they had jointly sponsored ceased to bear the name of the Administrator. |
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| 1 | 98 |
"His name?" asked Kuurus. |
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| 2 | 106 |
"He has dared to speak the name of Portus and beg a coin from him". |
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| 2 | 118 |
Then the large man with missing teeth seized Hup's hair and pulled up the head, to expose the throat, holding in his right hand a small, thick, curved blade, the hook knife of Ar, used sheathed in the sport of that name, but the knife was not now sheathed. |
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| 2 | 316 |
"What is the name of this house?" asked Kuurus. |
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| 2 | 353 |
"You had best call me Vella," said she, "for that is the name I am known by in the House of Cernus". |
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| 4 | 91 |
But I did not even know his name. |
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| 4 | 97 |
"Do you know the name of the man whom you seek?" asked Cernus. |
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| 4 | 169 |
"What is your name?" he asked. |
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| 4 | 171 |
"No," said Cernus, "what name would you like to be called by?" "Vella," said she, "if it pleases Master". |
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| 4 | 172 |
"It is a pretty name," he said. |
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| 5 | 229 |
They are regarded as being above names, much as men do not think to give a name to the universe as a whole. |
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| 5 | 454 |
"We have an agent in that house," said Misk, "a Scribe, the chief accountant, whose name is Caprus". |
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| 5 | 554 |
"What is your name?" "Rena," said she, "if it pleases Mistress". |
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| 5 | 563 |
"What is your name, Wench?" she demanded. |
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| 11 | 6 |
The expression "The Iron Pens," incidentally, generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only... |
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| 11 | 191 |
"All of you are mad!" "What is your name?" asked Flaminius of the first girl. |
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| 11 | 205 |
"What is your name?" asked Flaminius of the second girl, very gently. |
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| 11 | 208 |
"What is your name?" repeated Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 83 |
He had been such that standing before men and lifting his hand, a thousand swords would be unsheathed in the sun, a thousand throats would cry his name, a thousand men would march or a thousand tarns would fly. |
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| 13 | 108 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 25 |
The dance receives its name from the fact that the girl's head is not supposed to rise above the Warrior's belt, but only purists concern themselves with such niceties; wherever the dance is performed, however, it is imperative that the girl never rise to her feet. |
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| 15 | 113 |
For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ... |
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| 15 | 238 |
Once Virginia had, in our compartment, with Elizabeth and Phyllis, shyly looked up at me, and asked if I knew the name of the blond guard, he with blue eyes, who came upon occasion to observe the training. |
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| 16 | 26 |
Then, at dawn, on the first day of En'Kara, in the name of the city, the Administrator of Ar, or a Ubar if it be Ubar, greets the sun, welcoming it to Ar on the first day of the New Year. |
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| 17 | 148 |
The name of Gladius of Cos was a watchword in the city, though surely few knew his identity. |
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| 17 | 200 |
The name of Cernus, as patron and benefactor, was now what appeared on the placards and the boards of announcements. |
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| 17 | 214 |
Then, as I would have expected, within the month, there were rumors of peculation, and an accounting and investigation, theoretically to clear the name of the Hinrabian, was demanded by one of the High Council, a Physician whom I had seen upon occasion in the house. |
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| 17 | 474 |
"What is your name?" demanded Ho-Tu of the Red Silk Girl. |
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| 18 | 409 |
"My name is Kuurus," said I, speaking to him from the light of the torch. |
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| 18 | 463 |
"My name is Caprus," he said. |
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| 19 | 14 |
On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the Scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of Port Kar. |
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| 20 | 135 |
"What is your name?" asked Cernus of the girl kindly. |
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| 20 | 259 |
"I am honored," said the blind Player, whose name I had just learned. |
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| 20 | 361 |
"Would you not care," asked Cernus of the boy, "to inform the prisoner of your name?" The handsome boy looked down from the chair of Cernus on me. |
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| 20 | 415 |
His name, of course, was Scormus of Ar, her son by the dwarf Hup, conceived years ago in the revels of Kajuralia. |
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| 21 | 164 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 166 |
"It is a beautiful name," I said. |
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| 22 | 17 |
His name was Callius. |
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| 22 | 274 |
"Then know him now," said the crossbowman, "by his true name". |
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| 22 | 304 |
But I had little doubt Ubar of the Skies, whose name I saw posted now for the Steels, was his master. |
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| 22 | 312 |
There was no name following Ubar of the Skies for the Steels. |
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| 22 | 313 |
"Put there," I told the men, "the name Gladius of Cos". |
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| 22 | 315 |
The other hastened to put up the name, letter by letter. |
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| 23 | 24 |
"Kuurus," she said, calling me by the name by which she had known me in the house. |
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| 24 | 28 |
I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to lift their swords in his name. |
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| 24 | 192 |
"What is your name?" asked he. |
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| 24 | 485 |
I signed them, my name in Gorean script, followed by the sign of the city of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 157 |
"May I ask your name?" "My name is Bosk," I told her. |
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| 11 | 318 |
"And so," concluded Lysias, "I bring you all amnesty in the name of the Ubar of Port Kar, Henrius Sevarius!" "Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, speaking from his curule chair, in the name of the council, "is most kind". |
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| 15 | 237 |
"But," said I, "to have such a name, which is a proud name, one would have to handle weapons very well". |
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| 1 | 62 |
Her name is a synonym in Gorean for cruelty and piracy. |
10 |
| 1 | 64 |
I knew one in Port Kar, by name Samos, a slaver, said to be an agent of Priest-Kings. |
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| 3 | 325 |
"What is your name, Slave?" asked she. |
10 |
| 3 | 328 |
"A slave has no name," she said. |
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| 3 | 329 |
"I have no name," I said. |
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| 4 | 234 |
"Mistress has not honored me," said I, "even by telling me her name. |
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| 4 | 235 |
May I not know the name of my mistress?" "Telima," she said, finishing the work in which she had been engaged. |
10 |
| 4 | 238 |
Before she blew it out she said, "My name is Telima. |
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| 4 | 239 |
The name of your mistress is Telima". |
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| 6 | 50 |
It was the first I had heard the name of the man of the headband. |
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| 7 | 125 |
"What was your slave name?" I asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 126 |
"By what name did he choose to call you?" She looked down, shaking her head. |
10 |
| 7 | 159 |
I saw no reason to tell her my name was Tarl Cabot. |
10 |
| 7 | 160 |
It was a name not unknown in certain cities of Gor. |
10 |
| 7 | 185 |
"His name," she said, "was Eechius". |
10 |
| 8 | 392 |
"My name is Clitus," he said. |
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| 8 | 669 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 672 |
"I am content to call you by that name". |
10 |
| 8 | 673 |
I found it a rather beautiful name. |
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| 8 | 676 |
"What is your name?" boomed Thurnock to the large girl, who flinched. |
10 |
| 8 | 689 |
"What is your name?" he asked the girl. |
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| 9 | 55 |
I had heard the name of Surbus. |
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| 9 | 680 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 12 |
Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a Scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council. |
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| 10 | 53 |
His name was Lysias. |
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| 12 | 78 |
"What is your name?" asked Clitus. |
10 |
| 12 | 99 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 153 |
"Mark well the name of Claudius, Captain," said Chenbar, "for he is to become Ubar of Port Kar". |
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| 13 | 259 |
"May I ask," I asked, "the name of my master and his ship?" "I am Tenrik," said he, "Tenrik of Temos. |
10 |
| 13 | 350 |
"What is your name, Captain?" "Bosk," I told him, pulling on the oar. |
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| 15 | 185 |
"What is your name?" I asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 188 |
I permitted myself to betray that I now remembered the name. |
10 |
| 15 | 191 |
"Do you like your name?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 193 |
"What would you call yourself," I asked, "if you had your choice of name?" "Henrius," said he. |
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| 15 | 195 |
"That is a proud name for a kitchen boy," I commented. |
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| 15 | 197 |
"It might," I said, "be the name of a Ubar". |
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| 15 | 210 |
In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases. |
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| 15 | 231 |
"If you show skill with weapons," I said, "perhaps I shall change your name". |
10 |
| 15 | 292 |
I had known, long ago, a singer, whose name was Andreas of Tor. |
10 |
| 15 | 485 |
"Is that the name you will choose to know me by?" she asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 496 |
She dropped her head, acknowledging the name I had given her. |
10 |
| 15 | 499 |
"It is an excellent name for a slave girl". |
10 |
| 15 | 597 |
"My name is Vina". |
10 |
| 15 | 758 |
"It was I who gave you that name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 959 |
The first name, Ilene, had been a proud Earth name; the second name, Ilene, was only a Gorean slave name. |
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| 15 | 960 |
It was the second name to which she would answer; it was the second name which she would now wear; it was the second name which was now, by my will, hers. |
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| 11 | 920 |
"A slave name!" "Then you have a name," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 922 |
"And you understand that that is now your name, and your only name?" I said. |
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| 11 | 935 |
"But," I said, "it seems to me a delicious name, a splendid, tasty name for a well-curved property-girl, for an attractive slave". |
10 |
| 15 | 917 |
"Please do not take my name away!" "You no longer have a name," I told her. |
10 |
| 15 | 933 |
"There is a difference, of course," I told her, "in the name Ilene you once wore, and in the name Ilene you now wear". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 221 |
What is the name of your ship, if I may know?" "The name of my ship," said Ivar, "is the Hilda". |
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| 6 | 297 |
On his lap, naked, cuddling, sat she who had been Aelgifu, her arms about his neck, her lips to the side of his head; her name had now been changed; the new name of the daughter of Gurt, Administrator of Kassau, was Pudding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 191 |
His name was Achmed, and his father's name was Farouk, who was a Kasra merchant. |
10 |
| 2 | 594 |
I had assumed the name Hakim, a Tahari name, one suitable for a merchant. |
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| 10 | 25 |
Only she now wore the name which she had borne as a free woman as a slave name, to shame her, given to her by her master, Hassan, the bandit. |
10 |
| 23 | 295 |
"By what name should I address you?" "By the name by which you know me best," he said. |
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| 26 | 261 |
First, she had called out his name at Red Rock, among the flames, during the raid of Tarna's men; secondly, she had fled from his riders, to return to Red Rock, to seek him out, when she had been captured; third, she had, that very evening, upon discovering who might be her master, cried out his nam... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 531 |
That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th... |
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| 7 | 632 |
Tais was too fine a name for a slave; accordingly the lovely seventeen-year-old Gorean girl had been sold in Ko-ro-ba under the block name of Donna, a slave name calculated to excite Gorean buyers. |
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| 7 | 477 |
"Ah," had he then said, "it seems that you, in your former name, carried already, an excellent slave name". |
10 |
| 7 | 480 |
It appears to be the name of a free woman, and yet, within it, in disguise, which we now penetrate, it concealed secretly your true name. |
10 |
| 7 | 624 |
The name "Donna" is an Earth name, but the girl, as I had determined, was Gorean. |
10 |
| 7 | 631 |
Her name, finding favor with masters, considering it a lovely slave name, would then have been given, from time to time, to other girls, perhaps some Gorean, perhaps some, like herself, of Earth origin. |
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| 7 | 1194 |
"The name," he said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you". |
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| 7 | 1280 |
"My first name was Judy, my second name was Thornton". |
10 |
| 7 | 1321 |
"The name," he had said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you". |
10 |
| 9 | 388 |
"I name you Dina," he said, putting the name on me, naming his animal. |
10 |
| 12 | 93 |
On most collars, too, is inscribed not only our own name, but the name of our master. |
10 |
| 15 | 111 |
"You understand, of course," she said, "that you bear the name now as a slave name". |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
I gathered that a name had been written there, the name "Yata". |
10 |
| 19 | 100 |
I did not know if 'Belisarius' was his true name, or a code name for the contact. |
10 |
| 25 | 75 |
As far as we know, Belisarius, whom we know only by name, and it may be a code name, is Gorean". |
10 |
| 26 | 501 |
She would wear her own name as a slave name. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 166 |
Never!" "When I own you," I told her, "I will give you a girl's name, an Earth girl's name, a slave name". |
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| 15 | 16 |
"But you wear the name now," I said, "not as a free name, but as a slave name I choose to put on you". |
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| 15 | 94 |
Before, when I had won in the bone gambling, the dropping of the tiny figures of bone and ivory, I had, of intent, selected blond Thimble, whom I would, in the tenure of her service to me, name 'Barbara', putting that name on her, though then of course as a slave name. |
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| 12 | 287 |
This makes sense, as it is not their name, and it is not as if, in their speaking it, the name might somehow escape them. |
10 |
| 12 | 290 |
Often one man will tell you the name of his friend, and his friend will tell you his name. |
10 |
| 14 | 384 |
Thistle, I thought, or Audrey, as I sometimes thought of her to myself, using that name now as a slave name, would probably be the first of the three girls to come to a full slavery. |
10 |
| 21 | 176 |
Thistle and I, or Audrey and I, as I usually thought of her, using her former name as a slave name, had, too, recognized one another immediately, even in the darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 106 |
Sometimes a girl is given her own name as a slave name; sometimes she is given another name; it depends on the master's will. |
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| 1 | 104 |
The name 'Linda' had been her original Earth name. |
10 |
| 4 | 946 |
She would wear her old name, but it had now been put on her as a slave name, by my will. |
10 |
| 7 | 56 |
The name 'Kikombe' now, however, for the most part, with a set of rough, zigzag lines, had been scratched out, and the name 'Uchafu', with a sharp tool, had been added. |
10 |
| 24 | 368 |
"Yes, Master," she said, now wearing that name like a collar, it having been put upon her as a slave name. |
10 |
| 27 | 248 |
"You wear the name now as a slave name," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 250 |
"Do you like it," I asked, "now wearing your old name, but now afresh, put upon you as a degraded slave name?" "I love it," she said. |
10 |
| 34 | 787 |
"I love wearing that name as a slave name," she said. |
10 |
| 34 | 790 |
It gives me great pleasure to see that her master now puts her own name on her and forces her to wear it, openly and publicly, as a slave name". |
10 |
| 34 | 791 |
"The name 'Janice'," I said, "apart from such considerations, is a beautiful name for a slave". |
10 |
| 34 | 810 |
Some masters may reward a hard-working girl with a lovely name; others may torment a slave who has been insufficiently pleasing with a cruel or ugly name. |
10 |
| 34 | 822 |
"The name 'Janice', on Gor, is a slave name, isn't it?" asked the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 144 |
I did not even know her name, or master, nor had she known my name or the name of my Mistress. |
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| 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 |
| 1 | 416 |
"I started to tell him my name, but he lifted his hand, and told me that he knew my name. |
10 |
| 2 | 113 |
"The name then, of course, would be only a slave name," he said, "affixed on you by the will of the master". |
10 |
| 3 | 351 |
"The name is now a slave name," she said, "put on you because it pleases me". |
10 |
| 11 | 77 |
I wore the name 'Jason' now only as a slave name. |
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". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 286 |
"The name 'Beverly' may be worn as a free name, as well as a slave name," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 159 |
That name, an Earth-girl name, made it perfectly clear that her master regarded her categorically, and totally, as a slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 109 |
I was startled to hear this name, for it was the name of he who had saved me, some weeks ago, from the steel of Kliomenes, the pirate. |
10 |
| 21 | 295 |
She is an animal, sensuous and beautiful, marked as property, and has a name only on the sufferance of her master; he need not even give her a name, if he does not wish to do so. |
10 |
| 23 | 299 |
Accordingly it seemed fitting that we should put that name again upon her, though now only as a slave name, by our whim". |
10 |
| 26 | 125 |
"He put your old name on you, as a slave name," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 131 |
It is thus fully appropriate that I now wear my old name openly, and with full explicitness, as a slave name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 408 |
Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho... |
10 |
| 21 | 362 |
"Name me, my Master," she whispered, begging, "name me, name me, please, name me!" "Very well," I said, and began to move within her. |
10 |
| 21 | 439 |
"And from the first moment I heard your name, my first thought was that it was a superb name for a slave, and that it should be the name of a slave". |
10 |
| 8 | 290 |
"With such a name," she said, "will I be expected to be so abject, so low, as those hot, surrendered sluts of Earth, so obedient, so owned, so helpless, in the arms of their Gorean masters?" "What is your name?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 605 |
"Are you in there?" "No one called Luta is in here," I called back, cheerily, through the door, "but there is one here who once was known by that name, one whom I have renamed 'Shirley,' giving her, as seemed fitting, the name of an Earth girl". |
10 |
| 20 | 1971 |
Similarly, sometimes a master waits a few days to name the slave, to see if an appropriate name, one seemingly right for the girl, suggests itself. |
10 |
| 21 | 329 |
"I could give you the name of a Gorean girl," I said, "but since you are of Earth origin, and are a low slave, it seems more appropriate that you be given the name of an Earth girl". |
10 |
| 21 | 397 |
The name was once that of a free woman, true, a name to which she was, in her own right, legally entitled. |
10 |
| 21 | 401 |
Now, it is the name of a rightless slave, put upon her by the decision of her master, at his convenience, and by his will alone, a name to which she has no more entitlement than any other form of animal". |
10 |
| 21 | 420 |
I love wearing my Earth-girl name as a slave name. |
10 |
| 21 | 681 |
"Do not forget that you wear that name now as a mere slave name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 162 |
She wore her former name, but now only as a slave name, and by my decision. |
10 |
| 14 | 161 |
In each case their former Earth name had been put on them, but now, like a brand, by their master's decision, as a slave name. |
10 |
| 14 | 164 |
The former debutante's name seemed to us quite suitable for a slave's name. |
10 |
| 14 | 601 |
In speaking to a slave I prefer expressions such as 'Slave' or 'Slave Girl', or the girl's name itself, she understanding clearly, of course, that it is only a slave name. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 448 |
Now the name is not only a slave's name, as it always was, but is a slave name as well, and recognized and acknowledged publicly, by the slave and others, as such. |
10 |
| 33 | 442 |
It was then a slave's name but not a slave name. |
10 |
| 33 | 447 |
The name then again was put on her, this time as a slave name. |
10 |
| 34 | 402 |
"It is a name," said Cuwignaka, "the name of this place". |
10 |
| 34 | 455 |
"'Two Feathers'," I said, "was not a man's name, but the name of this place". |
10 |
| 54 | 70 |
"What name will you take? Have you chosen one?" "Will you take again your old name?" asked Canka. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 30 | 224 |
It is fairly common, for example, for a given street to be commonly known by one name at one end of it and another name at the other end of it, and perhaps by even another name or two, or three, along its length. |
10 |
| 36 | 1296 |
Who but a slave might bear such a name? Was it not exciting? Did it not hint of the steel of slave bracelets, the smell of thongs, held against the face, the clash of bangles, the rustle of silk? What a delightful joke had Drusus Rencius played upon me, the beast, when he had thought me to be the Ta... |
10 |
| 3 | 788 |
The name 'Susan' was again put upon me, but now, of course, I have it only as a slave name". |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
What sport then, I thought, must Drusus Rencius have had of me in Corcyrus! What a clever joke he had played upon me, the beast! Was that not a pleasant vengeance to take upon she who had so frequently discomfited him, she whom he then believed to be proud Sheila, the arrogant tatrix of Corcyrus? I ... |
10 |
| 24 | 32 |
If you have an Earth-girl name it is probably, somewhere on Gor, being used as a slave name. |
10 |
| 24 | 33 |
Similarly, if you were to go to Gor and give that to them as your name they would assume immediately that you, too, bearing such a name, were a slave. |
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 |
| 25 | 105 |
The gens name is the clan name. |
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 |
| 36 | 553 |
The name would be a slave name, of course. |
10 |
| 36 | 556 |
In any event, the slave name, and the knowledge that it is a slave name, deeply, and appropriately, informs the consciousness of the slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1400 |
"But she was given a name, or at least a house name, in the house of Samos, in Port Kar". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 385 |
If Master has named me, he has not yet informed me! If I have a name, it will be as Master pleases! I am a slave! I am his, only his! If I have a name, I beg to know it, that I may answer to it obediently and promptly!" "You have no name," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 372 |
It is sometimes amusing to Goreans when an Earth girl shows up in a Gorean slave market, insisting that her name is such and such, a name taken on Gor to be a slave name. |
10 |
| 25 | 374 |
She may be given the name afresh, but now to be worn as a slave name chosen by her master, or, sometimes, presumably that she may better understand her dependence on men's will, and her subjection to male domination, she may be given another Earth-girl name. |
10 |
| 15 | 380 |
"I have no name, no name!" she said, quickly. |
10 |
| 25 | 375 |
When more than one Earth girl is in the same lot, their names may be switched, the name 'Audrey', for example, being given to the former Karen, and the name 'Karen' now being given to the former Audrey. |
10 |
| 25 | 652 |
She crossed out the name 'Chelto' and replaced it with another name. |
10 |
| 25 | 1291 |
She is likely to use the master's name acceptably in a variety of contexts, such as in running errands, in shopping and bargaining, in making inquiries on his behalf, in referring to him with people who do not know his name, and in identifying whose slave she is. |
10 |
| 28 | 23 |
"The other girl had a name, or thought she did," she said, "the false girl, that assumed identity, she who the disguised, hiding slave was pretending to be, but that name was taken from her, stripped away like her clothing, leaving behind only the real girl, the depth woman, the basic animal, the sl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1619 |
To be sure, she still had the name 'Doreen', but that now was her only name, and she had it only as a slave name, a name given to her as an animal is given a name, a name put on her, like a collar, by the will of a master, a name to which she must then, like any other named animal, respond, and in a... |
10 |
| 6 | 456 |
We did not even know the name of the house where we had been trained, or the name of its master. |
10 |
| 17 | 375 |
I did not doubt that the name Tuka may have been suggested by its resemblance to Tula, my former name. |
10 |
| 24 | 684 |
It was my name, as a dog has a name, or a slave. |
10 |
| 32 | 121 |
In a sense, then, I had the same name, 'Tuka,' but, in another sense, it was a new name, put on me afresh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1390 |
In this sense, the name 'Claudia' as the name of a free woman is a quite different name from the name 'Claudia' as the name of a slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 1388 |
Even if the same name, in one sense, should be put on her as a slave, it is not the same name in the crucial sense; it is not now a legal name to which one has title in one's own right. |
10 |
| 21 | 1392 |
This loss of the old name, incidentally, and the susceptibility to being named, and the new name, if the master decides to give her a name, and such, although they are simple, legal consequences of the nature of reduction to bondage, are also, I think, psychologically useful in helping her understan... |
10 |
| 24 | 956 |
Some masters enjoy taking the name which a girl wore as a free name and putting it on her, by their will, as a slave name. |
10 |
| 1 | 384 |
Perhaps that had been the driver's name, or the name of the owner of the original wagon, that which had fallen into the brigands' trap, where the stones had been removed, that which had slid into the ditch and overturned. |
10 |
| 8 | 833 |
"Who obeys?" "Tina obeys!" I suppose, too, one has upon occasion seen a lovely woman and wished that she might have a certain name, for one might think that an excellent name for her. |
10 |
| 8 | 834 |
If she is a slave, of course, and one owns her, one can give her any name of one's choosing, indeed, perhaps that very name which is, at least in your opinion, ideal for her. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 |
The name 'Shirley' is an Earth-girl name but I suspected that she was not an Earth girl. |
10 |
| 21 | 939 |
A girl may be rewarded with a lovely name, or punished with an vulgar, ugly, demeaning name. |
10 |
| 21 | 944 |
Too, it is not at all unlikely that she will find herself under the governance of the slave, now "first girl" to her, who was given her name, and now wears it, while she, perhaps, now wears the earlier name of the slave, perhaps Sandal Thong. |
10 |
| 21 | 1396 |
"Do you think," asked Aemilianus of Calliodorus, "that 'Claudia' is too fine a name for a slave?" "I think it is an excellent name for a slave," he smiled. |
10 |
| 21 | 1402 |
"I think there is little difficulty in the matter, in any event," said Calliodorus, "whether it is a fine name or not, as she now wears it as a slave name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 649 |
"It is my own name, in my own right! I am a free woman! It is my own name, in my own right! It is not a slave name!" "But if you become a slave," I said, "you would have no name". |
10 |
| 37 | 316 |
With some women it is useful to give them a new name, or even to change their name from time to time, as one might change the name of any animal. |
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| 1 | 135 |
She wore that name now, of course, as a mere slave name, put on her by the will of a master. |
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| 1 | 147 |
To be sure, in one sense the names are different, as the free woman has the name in her own right as a legal person and the slave has the name in virtue of her master's right, to put it on her if he pleases, like an ankle ring or collar. |
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| 24 | 128 |
Her name, if she has one, is only a slave name, put on her for the convenience of a master. |
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| 30 | 38 |
The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety. |
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| 48 | 331 |
"Surely you have known women in Ar," I said, "whose name was 'Phoebe'?" "It is a Cosian name," he snarled. |
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| 48 | 545 |
"It will amuse me that she will wear that name now—as a slave name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 225 |
Her name, perhaps originally her Earth name, but now on her as a slave name, had been 'Louise'. |
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| 27 | 367 |
I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave who on such and... |
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| 5 | 57 |
"She does not even have her original name restored," said a man, "but the merely same name, permitted her, after she was freed". |
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| 7 | 244 |
He had then renamed her 'Luchita', an excellent name for a slave and quite different from the prestigious name 'Lucilina', which might have graced a free woman. |
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| 7 | 339 |
"She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and Home Stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged signal, the great bars of the Ce... |
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| 18 | 275 |
It would not be unusual to take a name such as 'Telitsia' which is most often a free woman's name and give it a shortened form, a more familiar form, perhaps one more fitting for a well-curved, delicious slave animal. |
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| 19 | 441 |
"Then it is a different name now," I said, "put on you as a slave name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 574 |
In other cases, it seems clear that wearing an Earth-girl name, whether one which was once her own, now put on her as a slave name, or another Earth-girl name, now also, of course, only a slave name, can have similar effects on a girl from my world, she now recognizing herself as, and being, in effe... |
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| 11 | 519 |
The collar would not be a function of the name, so to speak, but the name, it seemed, would be a function of the collar, of some name already on a collar! "What do you suggest?" he asked. |
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| 7 | 62 |
A name for the purposes of training, a name for the purpose of kennels, and so on. |
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| 10 | 729 |
I needed then have less fear of being summoned to the furs of such brutes! But I wanted a name, though I knew it would be only a slave name, put on me for the convenience and pleasure of masters. |
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| 10 | 730 |
How else could I be summoned, or have it written on a shard drawn at random from an urn? I had not been caressed in days! Surely someone must have mercy on a kajira! I supposed the name, as I was an Earth girl, would be an Earth-girl name. |
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| 11 | 511 |
But I would have expected a master to have considered me with some care, as he might another form of animal, and to have then selected a name for me which, at least to his fancy, seemed to him fitting or suitable, a name which might then, sooner or later, be inscribed on a collar. |
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| 11 | 580 |
And, of course, perhaps most importantly, we are well aware that any name we wear, whatever it may be, is, when all is said and done, a slave name. |
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| 12 | 803 |
I did not even know my name! I had a name. |
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| 13 | 626 |
I supposed that my name was not all that important, or even if I had a name. |
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| 13 | 787 |
He knew my name, that which I had been given, that on my collar, which, perhaps, had been worn by many others before me! I recalled that some of the guards in the pens did not care to administer a formal whipping to a woman, as opposed to some admonitory blows now and then, until they knew her name,... |
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| 13 | 1502 |
I knew that the name was on the collar, and that, thus, in a sense, my name was on me, clearly and obdurately, for anyone to see, anyone who might be literate and care to peruse the collar. |
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| 15 | 47 |
While they do this one's name is repeated, so that they will associate the name, which may then figure in a signal, with the scent. |
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| 16 | 111 |
But what needed I to know, other than the fact that he was a free man, and I would address him as "Master"? He knew my name, of course, the only name I had, which had been put on me in this place, 'Janice'. |
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| 16 | 269 |
On it was my name, that name which had been given to me, 'Janice'. |
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| 18 | 5 |
"Do you see him anywhere?" she asked, the free woman, who wore the collar on which was inscribed the name 'Tuta', a suitable slave name. |
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| 29 | 140 |
But, know that even now, now, in a time in which our fortunes have been recovered and more, in a time in which our name shines again, and more brightly than ever, in a dozen cities, in a time in which we have become first among the houses of our caste in Harfax, we still remember that name. |
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| 29 | 189 |
The notation on the papers which had been made by the clerk had undoubtedly been the slave's name, presumably with the effective date of the name, as such names may be changed, as the master wishes. |
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| 46 | 588 |
I wondered what he would name me, or if he would concern himself to name me. |
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| 4 | 25 |
So 'Tutina', then, thought the older woman, is the name of that stupid tart! It seemed an odd name, an unfamiliar sort of name, but it did not seem inappropriate for one such as she, one who was so elementally, so simplistically, so reductively female. |
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| 1 | 64 |
The name she bore is, of course, unimportant, and certainly so now, on this world, and it might have been any name, perhaps yours or another's. |
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| 8 | 164 |
It would be merely a slave name, hers by the decision of the master, a name subject to whim or caprice, subject to change at any time. |
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| 8 | 166 |
It would be her name as much as any such name, for example, one put on a pig or dog. |
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| 10 | 273 |
And so that is the name by which we may now refer to her, for it is her name. |
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| 10 | 282 |
He has given me such a beautiful name! "I had thought, as long ago as the class room," he said, "that 'Ellen' would make a lovely name for a slave, and, as I watched you, moving before the class, I thought of you as a slave, for that is what you are, and were, you know, and I thought of you, too, as... |
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| 10 | 285 |
"To be sure," he said, "aside from the fact that 'Ellen' is a suitable name for a meaningless, pretty little slave like yourself, that name, as many similar names, has other connotations, connotations and suggestions of which I am aware but you in all likelihood are not. |
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| 10 | 315 |
Can you imagine her fear, bearing such a name on this world?" Still the slave kneeling head down in the position of obeisance was not displeased, even so, to have been given the name 'Ellen'. |
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| 11 | 52 |
His Earth name is not to be included in this narrative, no more than that name which had once been Ellen's on Earth. |
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| 11 | 1092 |
"Perhaps, in time, Evelyn, for that is the name Jeffrey has selected for her, and she will learn her name tomorrow, that will be soon enough, may eventually serve naked in this room, as you did this evening". |
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| 12 | 528 |
What free person would want their name soiled by the tongue of a slave? I never let my slaves refer to me by my name". |
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| 16 | 267 |
Surely Mirus of Ar, her master, would never let her out of his collar, really! Surely somehow he would keep her as his forever! Had he not remembered her? Had he not brought her to this world? Had he not restored her youth and comeliness? Had he not given her a beautiful name? Had he not put her in ... |
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| 16 | 955 |
"The name was put on her as a punishment name. |
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| 17 | 424 |
A common form of training is to associate a name with a scent, and then, if one wishes, to associate the name with one or more commands. |
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| 17 | 425 |
In your case, if one wanted the sleen to take a scent print of you, your name, or some code name, would be associated with your scent. |
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| 17 | 426 |
That name, or code name, could then be used in conjunction with another command to set the beast on your trail. |
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| 18 | 41 |
"And a pretty name, a name suitable for a pretty little barbarian slave girl". |
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| 22 | 539 |
She had been 'Auta' before, but the scribe had not cared for that name, and had given her the name 'Renata'. |
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| 25 | 314 |
Your name, if it is seen fit to give you a name, will be whatever masters wish". |
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| 26 | 492 |
She knew she had been sold under that name, that that name was on the records of scribes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 232 |
In conversations within the container, not reported in this narrative, she had learned that his name was Tarl Cabot, which name, of course, meant nothing to her, nor was she even aware that Tarl, a name which seemed strange to her, was a not uncommon name on Gor, and one, we may suppose, originally,... |
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| 1 | 53 |
For example, if a leopard or a lion, or a larl or a sleen, had a name for you you would doubtless not recognize it as a name, let alone as your name. |
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| 3 | 254 |
That name, as I understand it, surely a beautiful name, is commonly regarded on Earth as an ordinary name. |
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| 2 | 233 |
Her name, for at that time she had a name, was Virginia Cecily Jean Pym. |
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| 3 | 244 |
In my view, it is too ordinary a name, too common a name. |
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| 3 | 256 |
It is not unknown, for example, for that name to be given to Gorean slave girls, and not simply because of its convenient brevity and beauty, properties suitable for a slave name, but also because, on Gor, it has an attractive exotic flavor, suggesting foreign places and goods. |
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| 10 | 56 |
"You noted, of course," said Peisistratus, "that she cried out your name, the name of a free man". |
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| 29 | 76 |
"She, at least," said the slave, "is clothed in the beauty of a name!" "It is a beautiful name, in its way," said Cabot. |
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| 29 | 82 |
"I must hope that the name my master gives me, if he chooses to name me, will be pleasing to him". |
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| 29 | 186 |
"Because it is such a lovely name for a slave!" "Thousands of slaves are given the simple name, 'Lita'," he said, "as they are such names as 'Lana', 'Mira', 'Tuka', and such". |
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| 29 | 194 |
"It is understood as a slave name, as only the name of a slave?" "Yes," said Cabot. |
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| 29 | 213 |
"And thus," she said, "the better I understand my name, that it is the name of a slave". |
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| 75 | 38 |
This was a name she despised, a name fit, in her view, only for a shopgirl. |
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| 75 | 39 |
Too, she knew, by now, that it would be recognized in Gorean markets as an Earth-girl name, the sort of name to be fastened on only the lowest and most degraded of slaves. |
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| 78 | 45 |
"It is now only a slave name, put on you as one might name a sleen, or kaiila". |
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| 78 | 47 |
"That is all it is," said Corinna, "and I think it is a rather pretty name, an excellent name for an Earth-girl slave". |
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| 79 | 11 |
"And what name would you like?" "Whatever name Master wishes," she said. |
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| 81 | 73 |
"Call me by the name of 'Grendel' alone, for that is the name of a monster, and I go where I shall not be "lord," but, at best, a deformity, a beast". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 28 | 315 |
I had not changed her name on the embondment papers, but had permitted her to retain the name 'Talena', though then, of course, not as a free name but as a slave name, put upon her by the will of her master. |
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| 11 | 63 |
The slave understands, of course, that she has no name, not in a legal sense, and that the name she is given is a name bestowed on her by a master, and removable by a master. |
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| 1 | 5 |
The name 'Agamemnon' was not the actual name of he who was once a Steel-World master, but it was chosen, it seems, for obscure associations. |
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| 8 | 129 |
"I am a one-name person, but I hope, one day, to be a two-name person". |
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| 8 | 159 |
"Miss Wentworth," said Pertinax, for I shall continue to refer to him by this name, as it is familiar, and convenient, and as it would become his Gorean name, "is in disguise. |
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| 8 | 197 |
I suspected he came from a hierarchical society, as that had been suggested by his demeanor, and his concern with one-name and two-name individuals, and so on. |
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| 9 | 102 |
Not the best choice, perhaps, for it was more of a free woman's name than a slave's name, but she wanted something stately and impressive. |
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| 9 | 103 |
A more typical slave name would have been, say, Lana or Lita, or, say, a more familiar Earth-girl name, such as Jane, Audrey, or Cecily. |
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| 11 | 62 |
Now, of course, it was not the same name, for I had given it to her as a slave name. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Even the name which appears on formal slave papers is a slave name. |
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| 13 | 53 |
The name of the enclave was derived from the Sun Gate, one of Ar's major gates, though it was better than two pasangs from the gate itself, the gate's name being derived from the fact that it was regularly opened at sunrise and closed at sunset. |
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| 15 | 289 |
"That is a barbarian name! I am Gorean! I once had an Earth girl, a serving slave, by that name! Men wanted her. |
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| 15 | 293 |
"Do not shame me! Do not so demean me! It is a slave name, fit only for a barbarian brought here for the markets! Men will see me as a low slave! They will see me as no more than switch meat!" "I am now going to name you," I said. |
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| 15 | 301 |
I could understand that the name on Gor, being a barbarian name, was associated with kajirae. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 805 |
I supposed the name had come to her mind, given her name, Flavia, which name, as would be expected, is similarly well known in such areas. |
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| 7 | 25 |
I did not understand the name 'Jane', a lovely but unusual name, which I took to be a barbarian name. |
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| 1 | 283 |
It was only after that time that some masters outside of Ar, in various far cities, and even as faraway as Cos and Tyros, in their contempt for the new Ubara, regarded as having betrayed her Home Stone, might place that now-contemptible name upon some slaves, usually deficient or temporarily lacking... |
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| 1 | 369 |
"That name, that hated name," said the taverner, "is not to be spoken". |
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| 3 | 154 |
"I hate the name! I hate it! It is a Cosian name". |
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| 3 | 804 |
'" The name Flavius is a common name in the middle latitudes of Gor, at Ar, and elsewhere. |
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| 25 | 1 |
I Introduce Two Slaves to One Another I had inquired the name of several slaves, now and then, casually, over the past few days, but was particularly interested in one name, that of one slave. |
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| 37 | 1546 |
It seemed she had hoped to be given a beautiful name, and had long hoped that a particular name, one which much appealed to her, would be given to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 577 |
In any event, the name 'Laura' had been given to the barbarian, and it was the only name she had, a name given her at the pleasure of masters, a slave name. |
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| 15 | 172 |
I thought 'Relia', which name had been given to her just before mine had been given to me, was a nice name, and it was, of course, at least, a Gorean name. |
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| 7 | 299 |
Sometimes, if one is given a name, the name, too, will appear on the collar. |
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| 13 | 130 |
Sometimes a barbarian name is placed on a Gorean female slave as a punishment name, to humiliate and humble her, to inform her that she is, in the master's view, no more than a barbarian, and may expect to be treated accordingly. |
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| 13 | 163 |
"The name must be short, and simple, an obvious slave name, and one that makes clear that you are without significance or importance, that you are a mere, negligible, chattel. |
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| 23 | 126 |
I was then indeed "Laura," or whatever masters might choose to name me, should they give me a name. |
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| 41 | 406 |
"Surely you are aware," he said, "that as a slave you have no name, any more than any other beast, save as masters might choose to name you". |
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| 43 | 576 |
It was my understanding that she had been given the name 'Laura', either in Tarncamp or Shipcamp, presumably Tarncamp, perhaps named for the town on the Laurius, to the south, though, as I also understood it, that was a familiar barbarian female name, which might be bestowed on any barbarian slave, ... |
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| 50 | 655 |
"But as you are a barbarian, why did they not give you a barbarian name?" "I think it is a barbarian name," I said. |
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| 54 | 99 |
He then told me what the collar would read, and I, for the first time, was apprised of the name of my master, which name, for obvious reasons, must not appear here. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 481 |
Pertinax's Earth-name was Gregory White, to which name he was still entitled, if he wished, as he was a free man. |
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| 17 | 117 |
It was in Tarncamp that she had been given the name 'Saru', she having been hitherto, unbeknownst to herself, after her name had been entered on an acquisition list on Earth, only a nameless slave. |
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| 31 | 223 |
The name of water does not assuage thirst, nor the name of food fill a belly. |
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| 58 | 240 |
The name 'Kameko' had been put on her, as a slave name. |
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| 61 | 1126 |
Surely she understood she had been disowned, and was then no longer the daughter of the great Marlenus; surely she understood that she was now an item of livestock, of slave stock, and had no name but what masters might put on her, should they choose to name her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 17 |
The retention of a former name is convenient, of course, as easily solving a naming problem, and a barbarian slave is well identified by being given a barbarian name, which is commonly done, her former name, or another such name. |
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| 28 | 49 |
The situation is occasionally complicated by the fact that a street may have more than one name, depending on your informant, and, sometimes, it will change its name, depending on your location, a street having, say, one name closer to the piers, and another name closer to the markets. |
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| 30 | 196 |
"He mocks you, that you chose the name 'Tenrik of Siba' as a concealing name," I said, "for it is foolishly and clearly close to that of 'Kurik', and he finds it pathetically inept that you should have claimed to be from Siba, for that is merely another town on the Vosk, as is your true town, Victor... |
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| 36 | 126 |
"We could not pronounce his true name, no more than we could pronounce the true name of Lord Arcesilaus, or Lord Grendel, or the Kur name of Eve". |
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| 8 | 15 |
To be sure, technically, it is not the same name, as the legal name vanishes with the girl's freedom. |
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| 14 | 234 |
The name is now, of course, a slave name, put on me by the will of masters". |
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| 15 | 50 |
"And it is a Gorean name," I said, "not a barbarian name". |
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| 15 | 57 |
"Then my name will not appear on my collar," I said, "not even the name 'Lita'?" "No," he said. |
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| 18 | 14 |
"My name is neither Tullius Quintus nor the name on your collar". |
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| 23 | 167 |
"He trolled," he said, "casting his lines about, a word here, a word there, in the taverns, in the markets, words that would be meaningless to most, stray sounds, but telling to he who might have an ear for the name 'Phyllis', for the name 'Kurik of Victoria'". |
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| 28 | 186 |
How could things proceed more smoothly? And consider the absurdity of the name, 'Tenrik', obviously reminiscent of his real name, 'Kurik'! Could he not do better than that? And he alleges to be of Siba, he, of Victoria! Siba is another of the towns on the Vosk, like Victoria. |
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| 30 | 425 |
I did know that the name on the collar was not his real name. |
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| 41 | 52 |
His name, I recalled, or what he had proffered as his name, had been 'Drusus'. |
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| 46 | 43 |
The name of the she-Kur, or what served for her name in Gorean, was 'Lyris'. |
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| 69 | 195 |
I am now simply 'Phyllis,' and the name has been put on me, as a slave name, for the convenience of masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 13 |
How quickly, trembling, reprimanded, I had gone to my knees before him, my head down, my lips to his feet! What a fool I had been! I had even dared to address him not as 'Master' but by his name, the name of a free man, putting that name on a slave's lips, an effrontery bordering on insolence or exp... |
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| 7 | 121 |
"She was not sold under that name, but another!" "What name?" asked he whom I took to be the leader of my abductors. |
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| 25 | 27 |
I did not think 'Bruno of Torcadino' was his real name or his customary name, but I would use it to refer to him. |
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| 36 | 75 |
Ships are often given a feminine name, and, for all I knew, 'Dorna' might be a familiar woman's name on this world. |
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| 40 | 269 |
If my original Earth name 'Margaret' had been put on me, though then, of course, as a mere, perhaps mocking, slave name at the whim of masters, things might have been different. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 300 |
This name, a familiar Cosian slave name, is pronounced, as many such names, in two syllables, in this case, as "Lah-ees". |
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