| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 231 |
I, too, felt that it was important to take something with me, something which, in a way, was my native soil. |
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| 2 | 89 |
"A handful of my native ground". |
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| 2 | 90 |
I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father. |
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| 2 | 123 |
The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it". |
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| 2 | 238 |
He added, "That is why I like to think of the planet as the Counter-Earth, not only because of its resemblance to our native world, but because, as a matter of fact, it is placed as a counterpoise to the Earth. |
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| 3 | 211 |
After a few English sentences or a page or so in one of my father's books, I would be at home again in my native tongue, but the shift was there, and necessary. |
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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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| 9 | 48 |
On Gor, as in my native England, one keeps to the left side of the road. |
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| 10 | 119 |
To me, the most puzzling thing about the domesticated tharlarions, and the way in which they differed most obviously from wild tharlarions and the lizards of my native planet, was their stamina, their capacity for sustained movement. |
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| 11 | 59 |
How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical... |
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| 20 | 6 |
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world. |
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| 20 | 25 |
With some fifty followers, who loved him even more than their native walls, he fled on tarnback to the Voltai Range, from whose peaks he could always look upon the distant towers of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 6 |
Young Cabot was rather tall, a good-sized man, well-built, with an animal ease in his walk that perhaps bespoke the docks of Bristol, his native city, rather than the cloisters of Oxford, at one of whose colleges he had obtained his later education. |
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| 2 | 29 |
With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moons might occasionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk. |
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| 6 | 27 |
The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. |
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| 12 | 78 |
Poets on Gor, as in my native world, were regarded with some skepticism and thought to be a little foolish, but it had not occurred to anyone that they might suffer from divine madness or be the periodic recipients of the inspiration of the gods. |
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| 23 | 80 |
Not more than two hours from the hillock where I had made the decision to return Lara to her native city the tarn had found us, as I had thought he would. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 75 |
How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native. |
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| 16 | 106 |
"I then, by means of an Implanted Agent, unconscious of the message being read through him, instructed your father to write the letter which you found in the mountains on your native world". |
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| 35 | 36 |
In the end, those humans who wished to remain on the surface had landed elsewhere, far from their native cities, and scattered themselves as vagabonds about the roads and alien cities of the planet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 13 | 202 |
He could never, like most native speakers of Gorean, properly handle the "w" sound, for it is extremely rare in Gorean, existing only in certain unusual words of obviously barbarian origin. |
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| 13 | 203 |
The "w" sound, incidentally, is a complex one, and, like many such sounds, is best learned only during the brief years of childhood when a child's linguistic flexibility is at its maximum—those years in which it might be trained to speak any of the languages of man with native fluency—... |
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| 17 | 35 |
It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, perhaps brought... |
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| 21 | 161 |
I knew, though I did not speak of it with her, that she was willingly risking her life to shelter me in her native city. |
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| 25 | 320 |
There were many things that seemed to me puzzling, and I thought of Gor, and of Kamchak, and the ways of the Tuchuks, so different from those native to Miss Cardwell and myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 129 |
To my surprise she was a native of Ar. |
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| 17 | 457 |
After the work of Caprus and myself was finished I would be able to join her, probably in Ko-ro-ba, for a time, before we arranged to return her to Earth; I assumed, naturally, she would wish to return to her native planet. |
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| 17 | 797 |
Yet here I knew there was much more involved than simple intelligence; I sensed here a native aptitude of astonishing dimension. |
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| 20 | 216 |
Cernus would surely have no way of knowing that Sura possessed perhaps one of the most astounding native aptitudes for the game that I had ever encountered. |
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| 20 | 366 |
My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 180 |
The bantering of the young people in the morning, and the display of the girls in the evening, for in effect in the movements of the dance every woman is nude, have both, I expect, institutional roles to play in the life of the rence growers, significant roles analogous to the roles of dating, displ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 57 |
I had no doubt that his native tongue was English. |
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| 6 | 183 |
It was as though he expected anyone to be able to understand his strange language, whether it was their native language or not. |
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| 6 | 196 |
And I supposed they had been, at least on the whole, native speakers of English. |
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| 6 | 200 |
Here it was the natural sound, the rhythm and inflection, of what was apparently an independent, doubtless sophisticated, native tongue. |
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| 6 | 208 |
On the other hand, I was encouraged because it seemed to me then that these individuals, if they spoke the same language, must possess the technological skills to return me to my native world. |
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| 12 | 118 |
It was native only to certain areas of the forests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 37 |
Suppose that, at some zoo, the tiger, in its cage, should look at you, and, in its rumbles, its snarls, its growls, its half roars, you should be able, to your horror, to detect crude approximations of the phonemes of your native tongue, and you should hear it speaking to you, looking at you, utteri... |
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| 11 | 199 |
The Kurii native to Gor, or which had been permitted to survive and settle on Gor, would surely not be likely to have this facility. |
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| 11 | 210 |
It utilized large forces on Gor itself, largely native Kurii, in its schemes. |
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| 15 | 53 |
If Kurii native to Gor could, within the laws of Priest-Kings, not violating technology restrictions, much advance the Kurii cause on the planet, those on the ships had little to lose and much to gain. |
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| 15 | 72 |
Sooner or later, if Gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar. |
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| 18 | 259 |
I expected he stood as a commander from one of the steel worlds themselves, sent to unite and command native Kurii. |
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| 18 | 654 |
Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ... |
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| 18 | 656 |
I supposed native Kurii did not command the respect of the educated, trained Kurii of the ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 41 |
"Kurii, Others," I said, "following the failure of the northern invasion of native Kurii, halted in Torvaldsland, have been quiet, have they not?" "Beware of a silent enemy," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 253 |
The organization of native Kurii, which would have constituted a splendid intelligence probe, and was doubtless intended primarily as such, yielded them little information". |
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| 1 | 255 |
The invasion of native Kurii from the north, survivors and descendants of ship Kurii, for generations, had been stopped in Torvaldsland. |
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| 1 | 780 |
The major probe of Kurii, the organization of native Kurii by ship Kurii, had taken place recently. |
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| 7 | 514 |
If he were of Earth, he might want a girl who could speak his native language. |
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| 24 | 479 |
How much she had bespoken herself, how much she had revealed! She had said such things before me, confessing such things, unburdening her mind and heart, as though I might have been a native Gorean. |
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| 26 | 1217 |
What then could be the next step? The uprising of native Kurii had been foiled in Torvaldsland. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1193 |
Perhaps they might rescue me! Perhaps they might return me, somehow, to Earth, or put me in touch with those with whom I might negotiate arrangements for my return to my native world. |
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| 3 | 530 |
In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products dis... |
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| 4 | 82 |
The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w... |
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| 4 | 944 |
Slave girls native to Gor dread it terribly, perhaps because it is so visible, the piercing of their flesh being so flagrantly erotic; what man would even think of freeing them if they had pierced ears? They beg their masters not to pierce their ears. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 |
It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world. |
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| 3 | 286 |
The native of the polar basin, on the other hand, holds them when he looks at them, and they have his attention as he does so. |
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| 3 | 560 |
The girl in denim shorts, whom I would have originally thought would have been the least frightened of her native sexuality, looked at the others. |
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| 3 | 603 |
I now understood that she, in spite of her attire, deeply feared her native drives. |
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| 9 | 205 |
Thus, after a year or two, a girl who now speaks a beautiful, fluent Gorean, one for most practical purposes indistinguishable from that of a native Gorean, is still likely, inadvertently, unbeknownst to herself, perhaps in so little as the shading of a phoneme, to reveal her Earth origin. |
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| 12 | 602 |
"It is found but rarely on your native world". |
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| 13 | 93 |
Actually I thought Akko's appraisal of the potentialities of the situation was overly hopeful, it being colored by his native good humor and optimism, vices endemic among red hunters. |
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| 17 | 63 |
These too, I assumed would be native Kurii, the survivors of stranded ship Kurii, perhaps crashed, brought down or marooned generations ago. |
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| 17 | 65 |
It was speculated that it had been fratricidal wars among such various forms of Kur which had resulted in the destruction of their native world. |
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| 28 | 178 |
The mechanism, I conjectured, would be analogized to the waxing and waning of light on a native world. |
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| 31 | 220 |
"But there are native Kurii on Gor," I said, "or, at any rate, Kurii who have reproduced themselves on this world". |
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| 31 | 223 |
"It is to your advantage that there be native Kurii," I said. |
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| 34 | 125 |
I had little doubt but what, eons ago, on the native world of the Kur, that cry had antedated speech and fire. |
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| 35 | 543 |
Differences among them in the swiftness with which the various proficiency levels are attained are functions, generally, of native aptitude and exposure conditions. |
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| 35 | 545 |
Yet, if they begin to learn Gorean as adults, or young adults, they will almost always retain traces of their native tongue. |
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| 35 | 608 |
I wondered if she realized that women of her paleness and beauty had, in effect, like certain other types, been sexually selected for, over generations, even on her native world, a world which seldom consciously thought of itself as a world breeding slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
Accordingly, usually native Earthlings are used. |
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| 5 | 40 |
In my own house I often rotated the position of first girl among my slaves who were native Goreans. |
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| 6 | 74 |
To some extent, of course, this is a misnomer, as there are many languages which are spoken in the equatorial interior which would not be intelligible to a native speaker of the Ushindi area. |
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| 6 | 82 |
He speaks several fluently, though his native tongue is Gorean, which is spoken standardly in Anango, his island. |
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| 6 | 277 |
Many Gorean masters permit a barbarian to prattle upon occasion in her native tongue. |
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| 23 | 205 |
The only common denominator in these discussions seemed to be that each of the informants was a native speaker of the language in question. |
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| 27 | 191 |
They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. |
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| 27 | 238 |
Many Goreans, even those educated to the second knowledge, that afforded the higher castes, find it hard to believe that the delicious Earth women who show up in their markets could possibly have been free on their native world. |
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| 31 | 78 |
Too, she spoke in English, which language, native to her, she did not believe any in the hut could understand. |
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| 32 | 494 |
"It seems I was in the jungles of South America, a continent on my native world, Earth, or perhaps it was some other world. |
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| 32 | 504 |
"'What is that carving?' I asked our native guide. |
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| 53 | 431 |
The words Bila Huruma had uttered were of course in the native tongue of Ushindi. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 470 |
"I have not been permitted for years to speak my native language," she said. |
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| 12 | 22 |
That certain women, too, would hasten to don them seemed to me then a pitiful irony bespeaking the confusions of my native world. |
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| 12 | 84 |
I had become, in my time on Gor, given the exercise and diet, more formidable than I could have dreamed, from my sedentary, refined existence on my native world. |
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| 12 | 214 |
It was perhaps a bit formal and precise for a native speaker, a little too correct, perhaps, and it had been occasionally infected with certain oddities of expression and construction which had been surprising, but I had not weighed these factors heavily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 341 |
One of the major criteria utilized by slavers, for example, was the native intelligence of the potential acquisition. |
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| 11 | 112 |
"It is my native tongue," I said. |
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| 24 | 613 |
Petty, arrogant, smug, cold, proud, inert, frustrated, the women of Earth trod the sands of their native world; the men of Earth, I thought, did not begin to suspect the gold into which such pain and dross could be transmuted; how long, I wondered, before such creatures were brought naked to their k... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 70 |
The naval tradition of Cos is an ancient one, and many of the officers of Port Cos were native Cosians, mercenaries or veterans of the Cosian navy, on detached duty to the colony, that the interests of the mother island might be defended on the Vosk. |
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| 6 | 65 |
"The Tais should make a run for it," said a man near me, a native of Victoria, a survivor of the Mira. |
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| 8 | 304 |
In their native environments they encounter few but psychologically and sexually crippled men, men whose merest intuitions of their blood rights are likely to be productive of conditioned, internally administered shocks and anxieties, or externally administered sanctions of censorship, suppression, ... |
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| 18 | 312 |
How far are the barren, dismal corridors of such a world from our native countries. |
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| 18 | 318 |
But suffice it to say that I, who was brought to Gor, and put in a collar, and am an abject slave, am here a thousand times more free than ever I was upon my native world. |
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| 20 | 1522 |
Indeed, it is the whole of bondage, the wholeness of it, which releases and intensifies her native sexuality. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 779 |
Carrying such weapons they might be mistaken for beasts of their race who now, for all practical purposes, were native to Gor, beasts descended from individuals perhaps long ago marooned or stranded on the planet. |
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| 2 | 57 |
"A bewildering complexity of tribal languages is spoken in the Barrens," I said, "most of them unintelligible to native speakers of the others. |
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| 13 | 135 |
"Does it disturb you to speak of your slavery in your native language?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 505 |
The expression 'Kailiauk' is used by most of the tribes for the kailiauk, which is not an animal native to Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 228 |
He had a strong native intelligence, I suspected, which, for too long, had been somnolent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 239 |
Indeed, many Goreans, learning that most women of Earth, on their native world, go about unveiled, infers that they are all shameless slaves courting a collar in which they should be rightfully placed. |
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| 26 | 248 |
It might be noted, lastly, that a woman who is stolen from a given city, if she has been enslaved, should she somehow find herself again in her native city, will still be a slave. |
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| 26 | 473 |
I supposed that few men of my native world had ever had the pleasure of seeing a lovely woman before them, so positioned, slave-positioned. |
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| 31 | 37 |
"Your native tongue, as I understand it, is called English". |
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| 31 | 97 |
"It is from your own native language. |
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| 33 | 678 |
Too, of course, they might recruit native Goreans for their purposes. |
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| 33 | 799 |
For example, they permit native beasts on Gor, marooned beasts, and such, provided such obey their laws, particularly with respect to weaponry and technology. |
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| 36 | 1200 |
"She speaks your native language," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 497 |
The nature of the messages, then, in a native-type Gorean cipher, suggested to me that there might be some sort of linkage between Kurii, and their agents, and Brundisium and Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 230 |
Few on their native world would have ever been perfectly obedient to men. |
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| 1 | 239 |
The native Gorean girl, become slave, expects to be kept in perfect line, and that it will been seen to that her service is perfect. |
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| 1 | 294 |
Although this may seem strange to native English speakers, it is certainly not linguistically unprecedented. |
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| 25 | 211 |
Their native world denied them their womanhood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
Their origins, it seemed, were deep within me, and, I feared, as I lay awake at night afraid, sweating and distraught, native to my very nature. |
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| 3 | 504 |
I was sure his native tongue was not English. |
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| 4 | 139 |
To be sure, I will doubtless capture other women from time to time, here on my world, women native to my world, and perhaps, from time to time, Earth girls who have been brought here earlier". |
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| 6 | 97 |
It was perhaps some draft animal native of this world. |
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| 6 | 328 |
Then I realized how little I knew, really, about that particular woman, doubtless a native of this world. |
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| 9 | 30 |
Doubtless he had known full well, he, a native of this world, that such things would be required of me. |
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| 13 | 280 |
Gross and loathsome as he might be, I had never, after our first interview, doubted his probity and acumen, nor, more significantly, from my point of view, his insight and native shrewdness. |
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| 20 | 160 |
He was given, however, only a flat piece of rock with a single character inscribed upon it, the first letter in the name of his native village. |
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| 20 | 163 |
He returned to his native village, which was torn with war and strife. |
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| 22 | 76 |
I felt that my intelligence was small compared to that of most Gorean males, but I did not feel intellectually inferior, at least generally, to the women I had met on Gor, either girls from Earth, such as Gloria and Clarissa, who had been with me at Market of Semris, or those native to Gor, women su... |
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| 27 | 26 |
Did they really think he had not known his way to Brundisium, a native of Brundisium, and such a man? Did they really think he had returned to the camp only to make a fresh start in the morning? No, he had been following us for a purpose, and it had to do with a slave, one he was determined to bring... |
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| 29 | 112 |
Similarly, interestingly enough, almost all of the female slaves in Tharna are native-born to the city. |
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| 32 | 77 |
I was a belly dancer! I was! And I did love to belly dance! How free I suddenly felt, and happy, that I had now said these things, that I had now confessed them to myself, honestly, openly, in my native language. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 395 |
A woman of Earth, if not beaten, and swiftly forced to learn her womanhood, would doubtless have held out for a time, confident that Gorean men, like those to whom she had become accustomed on her native planet, would prove to be weak, that they would yield to her. |
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| 21 | 947 |
There are a number of reasons for this, for example, they tend to eschew face veiling, thereby shamelessly exposing their features to public inspection, a convenience, incidentally, for woman hunters; they think little of baring portions of their body unthinkable to the Gorean free woman, particular... |
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| 21 | 1040 |
Doubtless as they served their masters in the halls, roasting meat and carrying flagons of mead, they heard warriors regale young men with the tales of the women of their native land. |
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| 21 | 1045 |
I supposed that, eventually, both Publia and Claudia would be vended in Cosian slave markets, As slaves they would have no Home Stones, nor native land, no more than a tarsk or kaiila. |
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| 21 | 1078 |
Many Earth girls who never gave a thought to veiling on their native world become quite sensitive to it when brought to Gor. |
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| 21 | 1183 |
And she thinks to herself, in her native tongue, in English, or German, or Japanese, or whatever it may be, not yet knowing a word of Gorean, kneeling trembling, naked, chained, before a male, as she fearfully performs this tender, beautiful act of obeisance, "Please do not whip me, Master. |
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| 24 | 937 |
Her coloring, of course, did not suggest that of a woman native to the Tahari region. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 52 |
Cernus had been killed by a kur, a beast not native to Gor. |
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| 13 | 232 |
The materials for the weapon and its missiles, not native to the delta, are acquired largely through trade. |
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| 14 | 325 |
Arrows, of tem wood, like the ka-la-na wood of their bows, not native to the delta, are precious to the rencers. |
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| 27 | 533 |
"To be sure, many of the girls brought here from Earth learn their Gorean so well that they become indistinguishable from native-born slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 321 |
There were still guardsmen of Ar, native guardsmen of Ar, in the city, but their numbers had been considerably reduced and they were generally assigned duties of low responsibility. |
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| 9 | 594 |
The free, native population of Ar, though there are no certain figures on the matter even in the best of times, and, given the flight of many from the city, conjectures have become even more hazardous, is commonly estimated at between two and three million people. |
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| 9 | 608 |
If one supposes, as a conservative estimate, that there were now some two million native citizens in Ar, and that half of them, say, are female, then the levy on free females in Ar was thus only about one in every one hundred. |
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| 19 | 181 |
"What is your native language?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 213 |
"Forgive a girl who does not wish to be punished," she said, "but I suspect that Master may not be native to this world either". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 153 |
Sometimes that the tongue one speaks is not native to one is revealed by so little as an occasional slip in pronunciation, say, the shifting treatment of a consonant, perhaps under conditions of stress, such as anger, or fear. |
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| 4 | 384 |
I did not know if it were native to his as well. |
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| 8 | 706 |
Too, there had been five of us who spoke English as a native language, and some others who knew it as a second, or third, language. |
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| 8 | 710 |
But those in the pens, which were apparently large, were mostly native to this world. |
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| 10 | 9 |
"Please, no!" I cried in my native language. |
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| 10 | 59 |
I wanted to beg his forgiveness for having cried out in my native language. |
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| 10 | 98 |
I had not been given permission to speak, and had thus not been permitted to beg forgiveness for having cried out in my native tongue. |
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| 10 | 267 |
I had not been punished for having inadvertently cried out in my native language. |
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| 11 | 703 |
But even had it not been for my understanding of what I was, an understanding going back even to my native world, one which I had achieved, but had scarcely admitted to myself, long before I had been brought here, and one which I now understood even in terms of actual, significant, pertinent legalit... |
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| 13 | 107 |
And, indeed, the vast majority of female slaves on this world would surely be native to this world, and would, thus, presumably, have once had caste. |
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| 13 | 126 |
Too, there were certain words, and combinations of words, in this language I found it impossible to pronounce like a native speaker. |
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| 13 | 128 |
Too, some utterance in my native tongue might escape me in dreaming. |
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| 19 | 100 |
More than one of these fellows had knelt down and kissed the tiles of the docking area, stones of his native city. |
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| 26 | 34 |
You will soon be returned to your native city and your accustomed mode of life". |
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| 45 | 46 |
"Barbarian slut," he said, "Earth-girl slave, Earth-girl thrall!" He knew then that I was not native to this world. |
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| 45 | 53 |
Indeed, it reminded me in ways of my own early accent in this language, not with respect to my native tongue, which still influenced how I spoke the language, of course, but with respect to that which I had originally absorbed in learning the language, now so long ago. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 342 |
Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures. |
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| 5 | 27 |
She did not know what might be their native language. |
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| 5 | 28 |
She suspected that they were native to this new world. |
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| 6 | 78 |
It will instantly serve to mark her out to native speakers". |
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| 6 | 83 |
Too, of course, there were things which a native of this world would know, which she would not. |
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| 8 | 177 |
She thought that she would, even if she had not known him, have been able to conjecture with plausibility that his native tongue might be English. |
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| 10 | 30 |
Tutina, who derived from Earth, and, indeed, had once a been a native of her own nation, and city, was abundantly, natively, fluent in English. |
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| 13 | 11 |
What a privilege and joy to be brought here! Do those who are native to this world understand how wonderful it is? I did not know such a world could exist! She reveled in the freshness of the air and the beauty of the sky, and city. |
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| 16 | 358 |
In my native language, we do not speak of such things in that way. |
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| 16 | 366 |
Who, even among native speakers, speaks any language perfectly? And she supposed that she might forever carry an accent in Gorean, at least a subtle accent, and that this, like fillings in her teeth, and a tiny vaccination mark, would continue, for better or for worse, to betray her barbarian origin... |
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| 16 | 369 |
Too, it tended to mark them out and set them apart from native Gorean speakers. |
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| 16 | 374 |
There are, of course, a large variety of diverse accents on Gor, even among native speakers of the language. |
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| 16 | 377 |
Several words, and many of these not all that common among native speakers, are supposedly taught to the barbarians with pronunciations which are subtly different from the usual pronunciations of these words. |
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| 16 | 388 |
Needless to say these possible linguistic precautions and subtleties would not be effective with native Gorean women, should they find themselves put to the collar. |
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| 16 | 842 |
As an analogy one might note that, on Earth, it might be discourteous to refer to a woman as, say, a tart or a hussy, but it would not be regarded as vulgar to do so, whereas certain other expressions, which might come to the mind of a native English speaker, would presumably be regarded as vulgar, ... |
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| 16 | 1307 |
She is from the valley of the Vosk, and you know what they are like, particularly the ones from Victoria, only a stone's throw from Jasmine's native village. |
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| 17 | 176 |
"Is accent so important, father?" "No," said his father, "particularly as some of these barbarians eventually become so fluent in Gorean, so skilled, that you could not detect, from their speech alone, that they were not native to our world". |
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| 17 | 577 |
"Many could not tell her from a native Gorean girl," said Targo. |
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| 17 | 584 |
Later, in the opinion of at least some native speakers, she would indeed speak a fluent, beautiful Gorean, but there was no question of that at the time. |
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| 25 | 186 |
To a native glass beads may appear strange. |
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| 25 | 1124 |
The Earth woman, on the other hand, on her native world, is commonly not even veiled. |
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| 27 | 662 |
"At one time, long ago," said Mirus, "on another world, for this is not my native world, as you have probably conjectured from my speech, I thought there might be something to such suppositions, suppositions pertaining to Priest-Kings, and even repeated conjectures pertaining to such matters". |
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| 28 | 228 |
Our collaring, in their view, should have taken place on our native world. |
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| 29 | 329 |
"It is true, Master," acknowledged Ellen, "that Gorean is not my native tongue". |
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| 30 | 50 |
Some Goreans seem to prefer Earth women as slaves; others prefer native Gorean women; I would not think it would make much difference; they are all women; doubtless it depends on the particular woman and man, on the particular slave and master, on the particular "chemistry," so to speak; on the othe... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 470 |
The native women, unless prevented, treat them with great cruelty. |
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| 1 | 516 |
Often they are now regarded, and particularly by slaves of native Gorean origin, as merely an inferior sort of slave. |
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| 1 | 702 |
He did not understand, of course, at that time, that she, whatever might be her native intelligence, which was surely considerable, lacked speech, and for a very obvious reason. |
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| 1 | 817 |
It was in his own native language, as it turned out, much to his astonishment, that he was addressed. |
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| 1 | 821 |
There are many accents, I am told, too, even amongst native Goreans. |
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| 1 | 822 |
In any event, the fact that the female spoke his native tongue, as well as the hitherto noted excellencies of her face and figure, which seemed customized, so to speak, to his own tastes, informed him, as he had suspected, that her presence, and doubtless, too, that of the blonde, in the container, ... |
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| 1 | 982 |
Similarly, let us suppose a woman of a given city falls slave and eventually finds herself once more in her native city. |
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| 14 | 21 |
One, too, dug him tubers, wild suls, and the other brought him tree fruit, kernelled pods which dangle from the Bar tree, native, as we understand it, neither to Earth or Gor. |
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| 19 | 21 |
It is not known if it was native to Gor or, as many other forms of life, including humans, it was brought to that world by the mysterious Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| 46 | 60 |
It is also the native language, as I understand it, of Tarl Cabot, compatriot of Lord Grendel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 136 |
I saw then that he wished, or seemed to wish, to see the females native to Gor in one way, and those native to Earth in another way, those of Gor as natural slaves, fit for the collar, ideally to be embonded, and those of Earth not, despite their absolute identity as human females. |
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| 3 | 20 |
Indeed, few females of Earth, from their experiences on their native world, have any understanding of what it would be to be a female amongst men such as those of Gor; few such females would be prepared in the least for the possessiveness and power, the virility and lusts, of such men, natural men, ... |
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| 3 | 208 |
Once, I would have given her the gift of Earth, returning her to the liberties, such as they are, of her native world, but she had fled. |
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| 4 | 37 |
Knowing a native language of Earth they might be of continuing value as agents. |
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| 5 | 145 |
But the shield of Priest-Kings was concerned not only to protect their own world from the potential dangers of an eventually advanced and technologically armed humanity, mostly, originally, brought over millennia to Gor in Voyages of Acquisition for its biological interest, as were many other forms ... |
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| 22 | 567 |
I supposed that the former Miss Wentworth, for years on Earth, had longed for what she felt was missing in her life, for the precious, incredible womanhood which she had only recently found, on Gor, and she was now, it seemed, to be shamed and punished for discovering on an alien world what had elud... |
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| 30 | 207 |
The larl, as noted, is not native to the northern forests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 37 | 930 |
"What is a barbarian," I asked, "other than one whose native tongue is not Gorean?" "Oh, much more than that," said Callias. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8 |
These remarks, and those which had followed, recounted earlier, were not unprecedented in exchanges between native Gorean slaves and imports, such as I, merchandise brought from Earth, particularly when they are unfamiliar to one another. |
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| 7 | 254 |
I learned it much as a child learns his native language, in the beginning by ostension, and then by metaphor, correction, refinement, and intuition. |
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| 7 | 496 |
Was not a Ubara a free woman, and one of consequence? "There are a thousand things a native Gorean would know, of which a barbarian would be ignorant," said an instructress. |
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| 7 | 497 |
"Too," said another, "the Gorean taught to barbarians is often subtly different from that spoken by native Goreans, for example, in the pronunciation of certain words". |
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| 8 | 1175 |
My native tongue is called "English," and I am not sure that I would have allowed myself to understand the auctioneer even had he been speaking in that tongue. |
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| 8 | 1186 |
Strictly, a "barbarian," I have been given to understand, is one whose native tongue is not Gorean, a language spoken pervasively but not universally on your world. |
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| 8 | 1195 |
On the other hand, it is also clear that the connotations of the term 'barbarian', if not its literal meaning, extend well beyond the matter of what might be one's native language. |
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| 8 | 1196 |
As I have learned, "barbarians" are commonly taken to be simple, stupid, ignorant, uncouth, crude, unrefined, untutored, uncivilized, and, in general, worthless, and far inferior to native Goreans. |
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| 9 | 117 |
Actually, for those who may be unfamiliar with such things, what they spoke of was a consequence of the work of a form of physician on my native world, one who concerns himself primarily with the health and condition of teeth. |
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| 10 | 103 |
Might I have confused or deluded him? Would he even understand these things? I would not have dared such a stratagem with a native Gorean, of course, even in my terror, for fear of the frightful consequences attendant on being discovered in such a deception. |
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| 10 | 159 |
Sometimes it seemed to me that I would like a weak master whom I might control, manage, and manipulate, rather as a typical female companion on my native world was accustomed, given the culture in question, to control, manage, and manipulate their male companions, rather to the unhappiness, distress... |
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| 10 | 181 |
What man does not want a slave? Even on my native world I was sure that the men and boys I knew would not have minded in the least owning me. |
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| 10 | 651 |
When I had first been brought to the house of Epicrates I suspected little more than the fact that the Lady Bina and the beast were not native to Gor. |
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| 10 | 1195 |
"I assure Master," I said, "that many of us are quite as good as his native Gorean girls". |
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| 11 | 66 |
I do not think I was truly suffering from the fiercer conflagrations of slave fires, not as they so acutely tormented some slaves, thrashing about, and crying out with need, but I had little doubt that the former Allison Ashton-Baker, so refined, cool, and lovely, was now muchly different than she h... |
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| 16 | 99 |
Native Gorean girls, of course, coffled, are rampant in their speculations in such matters. |
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| 17 | 190 |
Supposedly this would be acceptable to those who were the guardians of two worlds, my world, called Earth in my native language, and Gor, the Priest-Kings of Gor, a mysterious set of beings regarded with great awe, both by humans and Kurii. |
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| 18 | 99 |
It was in no way unusual, after the brief indulgence accorded us, consequent upon the curiosity of the Lady Bina, who was apparently curious as to the nature of our native speech, that we had been abruptly silenced. |
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| 18 | 738 |
"What is wrong?" Eve tried even to communicate in our native tongue, which you would understand to be a barbarian language. |
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| 24 | 117 |
"Tharlarion are not native here," protested Astrinax. |
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| 34 | 73 |
I supposed it was also possible that Kurii, subversives, traitors, conspirators, and such, those who might wish to conceal the nature of their activities and plans, might have less to fear from an ignorant barbarian, at a loss in an unfamiliar culture, than a native Gorean. |
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| 35 | 162 |
My own alphabet, incidentally, in my own native language contains twenty-six letters. |
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| 49 | 80 |
There are, apparently, various enclaves of Kurii, usually small groups in remote areas, where interaction would be unlikely between them and native Goreans. |
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| 53 | 3 |
I have written it in my native language, surely unknown to most of you, which is called "English". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 103 |
I found myself exiled in my native land. |
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| 50 | 658 |
Certainly I had found occasional words in Gorean which were words also in my native language, or very similar to such words, perhaps influenced by them or derived from them. |
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| 50 | 660 |
Certainly it seemed to me that Goreans, or most of them, were clearly human, and, doubtless, directly or indirectly, owed their origin to my native world, Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 143 |
What if he were to be challenged by a risen population?" "There is little likelihood at present," I said, "of a native challenge from within his domain". |
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| 11 | 43 |
Beyond this, I had gleaned that many Pani did this a bit differently, tending to regard anyone who was not Pani as a barbarian, whatever might have been his native language. |
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| 11 | 251 |
"Dear friend," I said, "you are not native to this world, no more than I. |
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| 19 | 201 |
Certainly we shared a native language, and, to an extent, a common background. |
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| 23 | 248 |
"The homing bird," I said, "is good for a flight in only one direction, back to its native cot". |
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| 45 | 65 |
The Kurii, long ago, it seems, destroyed their native world, and the remnants of their warring races migrated into a number of steel worlds, artificial habitats, which lurk within the cover of thousands of the great stones of space, which, on Earth, we speak of as the asteroid belt. |
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| 50 | 121 |
Kur, with its dialects, is as much a complex native language as any familiar to humans. |
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| 61 | 4 |
It had then returned to its native port in the lands of Temmu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 84 |
I suspected the idiom in which he spoke might not be native to him. |
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| 16 | 109 |
Also, he had occasionally asked questions, and inquired directions, of passers-by, on the streets and in the squares, the answers to which I would have supposed would be well known to a native of the city. |
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| 31 | 127 |
"But she is not native to the World's End. |
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| 31 | 128 |
The slaves native to the World's End have their special sort of beauty". |
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| 31 | 130 |
"Yes," he said, "and doubtless, similarly, many slaves native to the continent and the islands are now being shipped west, to the World's End". |
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| 37 | 167 |
And many of them, such as you, are every bit as beautiful, as desirable, and exciting, as a native-born Gorean kajira". |
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| 45 | 182 |
Whereas the plants from which the seeds, or beans, for black wine are brewed may have been native to Gor, I rather suspected that their world of origin might have lain far away, perhaps on another world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 204 |
How then might women native to this world, for there must be such, view us? Not pleasantly, I supposed. |
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| 13 | 274 |
"I am not native to this world. |
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| 14 | 33 |
Why not charge a native Gorean girl with such a task? She would know thousands of things I would not about this world, its culture, history, customs, and politics. |
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| 40 | 268 |
My Gorean was now quite good, and many of the slaves in the holding, as far as I could tell, though unsure of my accent, uncritically accepted me as a native speaker, a mistake which I thought it needless to rectify. |
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| 40 | 270 |
Earth-girl names, incidentally, are sometimes put on native Gorean girls, perhaps to punish them, belittle them, demean them, humiliate them, or so on. |
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| 47 | 260 |
"No more so than native Gorean girls," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 40 |
Who does not enjoy teaching a woman her collar? It was interesting that she was cheap, for girls from my native world, Earth, brought to Gor for the collar, often brought good prices, at least on the continent, and on Cos and Tyros, sometimes equaling or even exceeding those of native-born kajirae. |
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| 4 | 17 |
I thought it judicious to defer to the view of a native speaker on such matters. |
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| 11 | 137 |
My native language was English. |
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| 13 | 13 |
These small, strong-winged birds are not native to the wilds of the Farther Islands. |
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| 14 | 1 |
An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl... |
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