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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 145 Carry on your person the ring of red metal, and bring me, if you would, a handful of our green earth.
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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 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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6 199 Apparently the Spider Person was not as harmless as she had arrogantly assumed.
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7 63 "Do you ask my favor?" I asked, which, on Gor, was much like asking if the person was willing to make a request—more simply, to say, "Please".
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9 6 She was now a free though submitted person, at large on the plains of the empire.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 140 He unlocked this with a key which he carried on his own person, and removed a manuscript, written in his own clear, decisive hand and bound with twine.
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11 162 "I know," said Ost, "that the leader of the conspiracy is a high person in Tharna—one who wears the silver mask, a woman".
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21 18 "Tal," I said to two guardsmen who crouched at the side of a fire, playing Stones, a guessing game in which one person must guess whether the number of stones held in the fist of another is odd or even.
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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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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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19 7 His entire person I also noted was anointed with unusual and penetrating scents.
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34 67 For years he had carried it on his own person.
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 8 His presence at the banquet was felt in the person of his plenipotentiary, Kamras, of the Caste of Warriors, a captain, said to be Champion of Turia.
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11 19 "You will take what abuse any free person of the Wagon Peoples cares to inflict upon you," he said.
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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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21 53 The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me.
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21 102 I picked up the melody and whistled a few bars, and then the person below joined me and we finished the tune together.
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21 150 To my disappointment, they continued to check every outgoing person and wagon with great care, demanding proof of identity and business.
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25 217 "You could always wear Robes of Concealment," I ventured, "and carry about your person an unsheathed quiva".
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Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 524 "Forgive me!" When one who is slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
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12 372 There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...
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13 253 A person could, I noted, if sufficiently bold or foolish, leap from the roof, seize the tarn perch and enter the tarncot.
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14 80 Indeed, I am sure he will carry the documents on his very person".
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17 141 But, as this lawlessness grew, and it became such that men would not walk the bridges without arms, the frenzy over the races and the games grew more rabid; it became rare on the streets and bridges to pass a person who would not, either for himself or for someone he knew, wear a faction patch, even...
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17 400 I saw that even Cernus had now looked up from his board and was roaring with laughter, the first time I had ever seen such amusement in the person of the Master of the House of Cernus.
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17 796 Also, of course, had I not even known her I would have supposed her a remarkable person, for she was said to be the finest trainer of girls in the city of Ar, and that honor, dubious though it might be, would not be likely to have been achieved without considerable gifts, and among them most certain...
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19 26 In Ar, as on Gor generally, a slave, on threat of torture and impalement, must endure whatever abuse a free person cares to inflict on him.
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19 179 I myself was startled, for I had seen the girl before and knew her somewhat; this was not her real person; the crowd, of course, would not know that.
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21 267 They did not relish being witness to the private joke of some high person, doubtless the Ubar himself.
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 422 It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person.
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8 770 "A slave," I informed her, "will take whatever abuse a free person chooses to inflict upon them".
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10 46 Although there were some one hundred and twenty captains in the council, seldom more than seventy or eighty, either in person or by proxy, made an appearance at its meetings.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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6 436 But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...
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8 62 The cost for transporting a free person across the Laurius was a silver tarsk.
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13 182 "Tal," cried Ute, greeting me as a free person.
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14 454 She is no longer a free person.
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15 904 Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating.
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15 918 It is difficult for a collared slave girl even to look into the eyes of such a person.
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15 949 In the slave box, alone with myself, I discovered I did not wish to be the sort of person I had been.
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15 950 I had not been pleased to be locked in the box alone with myself, with such a person, forced there to face her and realize that she was your own self.
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15 987 I would not now lie or cheat or steal, of course, but not now because I did not care for that sort of thing, or did not wish to behave in such a fashion, but primarily because I was not the sort of person who would do that sort of thing.
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15 1460 I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands.
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17 322 I had not been a good person, but I was not a murderess.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 131 "It is possible," said Samos, "that it is an image you love, and not a woman, that it is not a person, but a memory".
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10 131 "Who," asked Marlenus, "is this person of whom you speak?" I was silent.
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11 61 She is not a person, but an animal.
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11 68 "I know of no person by that name," said Marlenus.
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12 67 Companionship with such a person, for anyone of position or power, was unthinkable.
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12 70 Companionship with such a person, an ex-slave, one without caste, one without family and position, would be, politically and socially, a gross and incomparable mistake.
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15 938 Her old name had been hers as a free person, publicly registered, legally certified, historically identified with her throughout her life, until her capture by slavers.
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15 941 It had served, with other properties, to distinguish her as a precious person, a unique individual, among all others on the planet Earth.
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22 688 For example, there is no higher person, nor one more respected, than the Gorean free woman.
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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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8 186 How could it be made more clear that her captor scorned these as baubles, that he had no need of them, and that it had been the girl herself, and only she, her body and her person, that had been sought and boldly taken.
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10 360 In such a war, or such an enmity, of course, the slave girl is completely at the mercy of the free person; she is only slave.
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21 72 "Outlawry," said he, "once proclaimed by the hall of Blue Tooth against the person of Ivar Forkbeard, he of Forkbeard's Landfall, is herewith, in this hall, in this place, in the name of Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, lifted!" There was a great cheer.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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26 652 She is a person! A true person! I have learned my lesson, Tarl.
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2 188 We had little doubt that the men of the Tahari would pay high for the body and person of Miss Blake-Allen.
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5 495 "He is a beast! He is a terrible person! Did you not see how he abused me?" "In his arms," I laughed, "he would treat you only as a slave".
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11 206 It is thus not unusual that, in a desert situation, a calm, normal person may, misinterpreting physical cues, make an oasis, complete with buildings and trees, out of energies reflected over a heated surface from rock and brush.
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26 650 She is a person.
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Book 11. (20 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 579 Did he think I was an animal, a mere pretty animal? Did he not know that I was a person! That I was a person of station and class, that I was an excellent student at an elite girls' college, that I was an English major, that I was a poetess! At one point, turning my head, thrusting two fingers of hi...
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2 882 How could I make friends with him, kneeling so? How could I get him to respect me as a person, so desirably and beautifully positioned before him? How could I, so kneeling, so beautiful and small, so exposed and vulnerable, so helpless, so much his, get him to accept me as his equal? I bent forward ...
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2 886 He must learn I am an equal and a person, I resolved.
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2 1140 In the glade, in the darkness, among the trees, so much his, I had almost compromised my identity and integrity! I, a girl of Earth, had wanted to yield to him, a harsh barbarian! Was I not a free individual, a person? Had I no pride? How furious I was with myself.
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2 1192 He had fought with savage steel to possess me; he had candidly, upon his victory, to my horror, appraised my flesh; he had kept me bound for hours; he had made me carry his shield, and heel him like an animal; he had cuffed me, and put me under discipline! He had not treated me as the free and right...
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5 522 Should not the face then, if one is concerned with concealment and privacy, be veiled? Is the face not more personal and revealing than the body? Does it not make sense then to consider it a proper object of concealment in a free person? Is one not entitled, so to speak, to privacy in the matter of ...
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7 42 On the other hand, it is commonly suspected that the major threat of the Salerian Confederation is not to Ar's security, but to her ambitions, in the person of Marlenus.
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7 227 The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
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7 945 Perhaps this was only a slave girl's alertness to the master, an alertness natural enough in a girl who is owned by a man, whose well-being and very life may depend on how well she pleases him; I do not know; that is an alertness which any rational girl strives to cultivate; but I wondered if it mig...
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9 2221 I saw you not for the things you were but for the things you might, enhancing my own person, become.
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9 2294 Accordingly, on behalf of one who was of the village, who can no longer transact the affairs of business, having fallen into the unfortunate state of slavery, I, on behalf of that former person, now one of my beasts, tender you to him in payment for the powder".
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12 90 Indeed, it is not uncommon, in most cities, for any free person not only to be entitled to, but to be expected to, discipline us if we are in any way displeasing.
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12 558 Only one other person did I see in the room, red-haired Fina, stripped, lying at the gate to her slave alcove; her left wrist wore a slave bracelet; the matching bracelet was closed, locked, about one of the bars of the alcove.
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15 336 "Slave girls," she said, "attract little attention, save by their flesh and person.
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22 69 Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ...
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24 107 Perhaps she has been insufficiently deferent to a free person? It is not likely to go easily with her.
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24 115 "She betrayed a particular person?" "Yes," said Clitus Vitellius.
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26 218 In this ceremony the Home Stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed.
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26 220 This is a moment no young person of Ar forgets.
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28 279 The auctioneer, puzzled, finally removed from my person the bands of silk.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 167 Each young person of Gor is expected, before their twenty-fifth birthday, to make the pilgrimage to the Sardar, to honor the Priest-Kings.
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9 259 "Yes! Yes!" said the blond girl suddenly, "Yes!" Sidney Anderson, I conjectured, was the first person on Gor whom they had met who spoke English.
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Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

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9 30 Aside from Sasi what I owned there was either on my person or in the sea bag.
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13 19 She must then fear that a passing free person might strike her for insolence.
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19 83 If I had not found it on Shaba's person I surely would not have killed him, perhaps losing it forever.
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25 19 Unfortunate, I thought, that the first civilized person to have seen this sight had been the treacherous Shaba.
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32 320 "I am aware, as any educated person," she said, "of our animal heritage".
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34 292 "This is not to deny that some such unusual person might somewhere exist".
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34 297 Surely no rational person, male or female, if they took a moment to reflect, could entertain so peculiar a hypothesis.
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54 131 It was concealed upon his person".
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Book 14. (32 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 66 "I mean 'I am a person'," she said.
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1 78 First there was the insistence on womanhood coupled simultaneously with the suppression of womanhood, exalting the neuteristic, sexless ideal of the person.
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1 80 The ideal of the person was the antithesis to honest sexuality, a device to inhibit and reduce, if not destroy, it.
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1 106 Similar expressions, once meaningful, now largely of value as rhetorical devices are 'chauvinist', 'sex object', 'person', 'conservative' and 'liberal'.
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1 595 "Because I am a person," she said.
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1 596 "Would you settle for a 'deliciously feminine person'?" I inquired.
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1 812 "You are a rude and hateful person," she said.
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1 822 "You are the most hateful person I have ever met," she said.
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1 955 "I am free and independent, and a person, and a true woman," she said.
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1 972 "I am free and independent, and a true person, and a true woman," she said.
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1 1076 How cruel I had been to her! How grievously I had demeaned her! Did I not know she was a person? "Forgive me, Miss Henderson," I wept.
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4 297 "Any rational person must surely choose the lawn party," I said.
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5 59 I had tried, constantly, to respect her, and I had reminded myself, a thousand times a day, that she was, as I, a person.
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5 62 I knew she was a person.
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5 157 "She is a person," I said.
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5 165 "She is supposed to be a person!" "Women are slaves," said the Lady Gina.
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7 243 I forced myself to remember that she, in spite of her beauty and her collar, was a person.
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7 279 Then I reminded myself that she was a person.
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7 316 She was very beautiful, and it was extremely difficult to remind myself that I must not treat her as the marvelous and exciting woman she was but rather as a person, a thing to which its maleness or femaleness was incidental and unimportant.
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7 330 She was, of course, a person.
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7 558 And she was a helpless girl, a person.
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7 583 I wanted to seize her and throw her to her back, and vent my wrath and joy upon her, uncompromisingly exercising the nocturnal rights which had been assigned to me over her, taking her hot slave flesh in my arms, making it writhe to my least touch, making her scream her submission to me as her maste...
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7 636 And did she not know she was a person? "I am sorry I struck you," I stammered.
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7 890 One must rather be a person.
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7 1031 I had joked with her; I had treated her with homely camaraderie; I had, almost invariably, treated her as a person.
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11 192 I had looked upon her for that shameful instant not as a person, but as a luscious, desirable female, one fitted by nature to kneel at the feet of a strong man.
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16 3 I, a slave, unaccompanied by a free person, would wait until free customers were waited upon and served.
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19 110 We both, immediately, knelt, heads down, before a free person.
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19 117 "Were you given permission by some free person to engage in slut sport with this bond girl?" "No, Master," I said, head down.
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24 125 She is, after all, a free person.
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25 61 "He is a free person, and I am only a collared slave".
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30 29 Some masters, it might be noted, require the slave to always refer to herself in the third person, for example, as in 'How may your slave serve you?' or 'Please, Master, caress your slave'.
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Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

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9 132 Did she not show, in her own person, how beautiful women of Earth could be.
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10 183 "She is a terrible person!" said Miss Henderson.
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10 357 "I am a person," she said.
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13 100 Must I teach you, of all people, a little feminist, how to be a true person?" "This is Gor," she said, "not Earth.
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23 67 If he is highly placed in some town on the river then his utility to Voskjard and to us would be considerably diminished if it were understood such a highly placed person was secretly in league with men such as ourselves and Voskjard".
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24 403 Any person on the street, seeing us, would know what we were.
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24 522 Even then she commonly enters it not as a free person, directly, but as a slave, from the lower left, or bottom, after first kneeling and kissing its furs.
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26 42 She may not release the ring until given permission by a free person.
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28 155 "We are waiting for one more person," said Callimachus.
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30 112 "It was from him, or perhaps from papers on his person, that you learned the signs and countersigns for admittance to the holding".
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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18 458 She is not merely a person who is living with him.
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20 198 At her least pretension or lack of deference any free person might beat her.
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20 660 For example, she will normally kneel if a free person enters a room, if one addresses her, and so on.
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20 1685 I am not! She was a person.
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20 1803 The slave is not a person.
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20 1822 How could a free person do other than to regard such a lowly creature with contempt? But, of course, she is often exciting and beautiful.
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21 868 A Gorean slave girl, incidentally, does not simply take a position on a couch as might a free person.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1096 Accordingly the red savage will seldom go out of his way to slay a white person; he commonly sees little profit in doing so; in killing such a person, he is not entitled to count coup.
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14 619 Her authority, as that of any slave, could be overruled by any free person.
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17 526 "Something which is self-evident to one person may not be self-evident to another," said another fellow.
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Book 18. (13 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 438 Hci, as would have been any other free person, had been fully within his rights.
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9 77 As soon as the words are spoken, or her signature is placed on the pertinent document, or documents, she is no longer a free person.
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14 38 "Do not speak further to this person," said Radish, turning away.
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15 172 It can make one an important person, too, to own a story, to be he to whom one must come if one wishes to hear it.
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15 226 "It is not a becoming thing for a person to do," said Cuwignaka.
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18 314 She was probably the only person in the camp who spoke both Yellow Knife and Kaiila fluently.
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28 116 A slave will normally assume such a position on entering the presence of her master or a free person.
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28 163 She could not leave it without the permission of a free person.
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28 182 She could not move from this position unless, at the word of a free person, she was freed from it.
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29 28 It would be a greater danger, presumably, for a girl to hide in a lodge where, perhaps being mistaken for a free person, she might be struck by arrows, the skins of the lodge cover perhaps being riddled from above by the swift, flighted riders.
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34 317 You will then, you see, no longer be a free person, but only a slave".
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40 693 An unclaimed slave may be claimed by any free person.
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48 83 "That you may, together, in the full accountability of the free person," said Hci, "face the justice of the Kaiila people".
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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9 137 It is common, too, of course, more generally, for them to kneel whenever they find themselves in the presence of a free person, for example, if they are in a room and a free person enters.
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1 297 I did not, for example, ask who this other person might be.
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1 301 "I am also sure that I am not this other person," I said.
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3 649 I must show him that I was a true person.
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4 35 For example, when a girl, serving at a banquet, hears the command, "Hair," she knows she is to go to the guest and kneel, and lower her head, that her hair may be used as a napkin or wiping cloth, by means of which the free person, either male or female, may remove stains, crumbs or grease from his ...
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6 710 "If on an errand, or in the company of a free person," he said.
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6 736 Too, a free person on Gor is almost never in any danger from a slave unless it be a guard slave, and he is attacking its master.
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24 87 A free person had been locked in the branding rack.
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29 30 Our requiring the permission of the doorkeeper, or of another free person, before being permitted to leave the agency, incidentally, is a very familiar sort of thing.
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29 31 Slave girls must commonly obtain the permission of a free person before leaving a house or domicile.
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29 34 To be sure, we would not be permitted outside the gates unless in the company of a free person.
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31 200 It was the chair of a free person.
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31 364 "A free person has walked here," he said.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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2 70 I thought, vaguely, that I might have seen him before, somewhere, indeed, quite recently, but one sees many people at carnival, and, of course, often the same person several times, as paths may cross, now and again.
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4 107 I supposed most were locked in one of the trunks, and the key, say, to that trunk, or trunks, was carried about her person, probably concealed in her robes.
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8 3 This was inappropriate as Boots was a free person.
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9 347 With the iron's first touch you ceased to be a legal person.
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10 23 Now that you are a slave, however, you will find that you do have reason, and ample reason, and not only to fear men, but, indeed, any free person".
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10 41 "Because of the kind of person I am," she said.
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20 102 But where in such passages, presumably unguarded, lonely and seldom used, would a suitable place be found for such a deposit? No, it seemed more likely he would have carried them with him, away from the room on his person.
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Book 21. (23 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 263 She would now keep her place, kneeling, as she was, until a free person might permit her to move.
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5 365 "In lesser matters, of course," I said, "where lesser exactitudes and punishments might be in order, you may, as any free person, at your whim, and without consulting the master, subject them to typical disciplines, things useful in helping them to keep in mind what they are, enforced positions, rei...
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13 68 Yet Feiqa and Tula, objectively, had far less to fear in the fall of a city than a free person.
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15 259 "It is difficult to move surreptitiously on a person under such circumstances.
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16 151 "Have I truly touched something so deep in you, so familiar, so recurrent, yet so frightening, that you dare not face it," she asked, "that you would lash out so at me?" "You are a terrible person!" said the daughter.
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16 347 "I am a terrible person," said the girl.
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16 1318 "Presumably no drover, or low person, a mere employee, say, would have had a baby with him," she said.
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19 41 The lovely slave had knelt immediately, being addressed by a free person.
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19 91 "Do you know of such a person?" asked Hurtha.
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21 12 She had knelt when we had stopped and begun to speak to the free person.
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22 167 He was a free person, and a male.
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24 35 Boabissia was not the sort of person who would think of a slave's comfort.
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25 64 "I was told to watch for such a person," she said.
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25 74 She did not, as far as I could tell, glance at any particular person, nor in any particular direction.
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25 177 Why was she here, truly? What was she doing here, truly? "My life as a free person was unsatisfactory to me," said the woman.
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25 179 "It seems now," I said, "that you are neither fully a free person nor a slave".
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25 180 "It amuses them," she said, "to keep me as a free person in their power, for their customers".
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25 551 Female slaves, so helpless in their collars, so much at the mercy of any free person whatsoever, live in terror of such females, for they know that they despise and hate them.
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25 673 She was now, by the will of masters, a new person.
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25 2005 You are not even a person any longer.
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26 1385 This is sufficient in the context for in that context you have been momentarily an unclaimed slave, who may be claimed by the first free person who chooses to do so.
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26 1434 She is, like other such domestic animals, not a person, but a property.
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29 56 Such slaves are not allowed outside the city gates, unless accompanied by a free person.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 192 In the sense in which a free person was priceless, she was worthless, but, too, in her way, I could see that she would have value, value as a pair of boots might have value or a dog.
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1 193 She was the sort of person who would have a finite, measurable value.
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8 226 She also commonly kneels when spoken to by any free person.
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8 229 The kneeling position, of course, which the master's, or free person's, permission, either tacit or explicit, is usually required to break, is commonly an initial position.
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10 285 Too, in Brundisium, as with most Gorean cities, kajirae are not allowed outside the city gates unless in the keeping of a free person.
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11 950 I am a basically shy person.
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13 535 Also, if she should be found to be in possession of a coin or coins, for example, by a tradesman, guardsman, or any free person, she will be expected to have an excellent explanation for this anomaly, which is then likely to be checked with her master.
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13 962 They had now, in the person of Mirus, let me have a taste of incredible pleasure, perhaps that I might then have some inkling as to what such things could be.
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13 1023 How could Hendow have spoken to a free person in this fashion? Never had I seen him as he was.
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14 78 Similarly, if it seems understandable that, say, a high magistrate, a general, a ubar, or such, might enjoy sitting in his pleasure gardens and inspecting his women, having them before him naked, or clothed according to his preferences, it is just as understandable that a less rich or well-fixed per...
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32 252 If a guardsman or any free person, or even a male slave, or a female slave in a position of authority, were to inquire as to the identity of my master, that was the information that I would be expected to give them.
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34 329 Perhaps I was a terrible person, but I did not mind the thought of being exciting and beautiful.
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Book 23. (24 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 48 Similarly, if an appropriate free person is available, she must report in to that person, when she returns.
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1 368 For example, it has been noted that the same woman who makes a disgusting spectacle of herself as a free person traveling one way on a leather-slung fee cart is likely on the return journey, if then a slave, perhaps tied in a sack, or placed hooded, and bound, hand and foot, on the floor of such a c...
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1 393 Few men will knowingly interfere with the progress of such a person, let alone threaten or attack them.
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5 132 It is the difference between being a person and being a property, between being a respected, legally autonomous entity, entitled to dignity and pride, and being a domestic animal.
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6 713 As she was within my rental, and a free person, of course, the administration of any such discipline was really mine to do, and not his.
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6 716 Any free person, incidentally, may discipline a slave.
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6 717 If this were not the case, then a slave, outside the knowledge of her master, might dare to be insolent to a free person.
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9 182 To be sure, there is probably no fully adequate way for one to anticipate, or prepare for, psychologically, the actual transition to bondage, even if one eagerly seeks it, even if one welcomes it joyously, for with it comes a new and profoundly different understanding of one's self and nature; by it...
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9 450 One was a person, the other was an animal.
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12 99 "I am a beautiful and brilliant person," she said.
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12 153 Too, do you think that I, a person such as I, wanted to remain out here, on the Vosk River, all my life?" "What happened then?" I asked.
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15 150 There must have been fifty coils of rope wound tightly about her fair person.
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15 187 It was as though, suddenly, she was a new person.
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15 304 "I am a free person!" she said.
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16 392 Or perhaps she might solicit some person to make active claim upon her, such a claim, after certain intervals, superseding prior claims.
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16 407 Otherwise it would seem that a slave is being permitted to manipulate a free person, bargain, and so on.
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18 139 "Aemilianus himself agrees to surrender his person into your hands!" called the officer.
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18 545 "She was naked, hooded, and thonged, and on a leash, in the keeping of one or another free person," he said.
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21 549 Too, of course, Lady Claudia, still a free person, who could render free testimony, not even extracted under torture, for example, had been present.
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21 589 "At which point," said Aemilianus, "you ceased to be a person, and became a property".
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24 45 To be sure, she is seldom allowed outside the walls of a city unless she is in the company of a free person.
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24 46 Similarly, if an appropriate free person is available, she must request permission to leave the house.
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24 141 Her captivity, that of a free person would be almost certain to be promptly replaced with bondage, and a master into whose clutches she might have most feared to fall.
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24 293 Slaves are always, directly or indirectly, in the keeping of one free person or another.
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Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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26 58 In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
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1 74 "It was done by a terrible person, one named Liadne, put over us as first girl, though we were free and she a mere slave!" I remembered Liadne.
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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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3 139 The slave, incidentally, understandably enough, is usually much safer in certain sorts of dangerous situations than the free person, who may simply be killed.
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17 244 A few such stings about the face can render a person unrecognizable.
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19 77 It was acceptable, of course, what was being done to her, as she was a free person.
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37 147 She is no longer a free person; she is now goods, a property, a domestic animal, subject to sale, barter, and such.
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37 173 The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp...
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37 174 In short, the person is content, happy, fulfilled, and so on, and the society not only does not object, but praises, supports, admires and approves.
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42 53 I was confident I knew this person.
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48 387 This permission may be given by any free person and is effective, unless it is overruled by the true master.
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Book 25. (24 results) Magicians of Gor

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14 624 Sometimes a girl is deprived of attention for days before her sale, that she will show well on the block, that her body and person, easily readable by experienced Gorean men, will make evident her keen discomfort and acute distress, her sexual misery, and thus her readiness for, her eagerness for, h...
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1 28 An analogy is the coin given by a free person to a street girl, which coin, of course, does not then belong to the girl but to her master.
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1 388 As the girl saw she was under the scrutiny of a free person she remained on her knees.
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1 405 She, the free woman, a free person, might be trampled by tharlarion, or be run through, or have her throat cut, by victors.
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8 195 In such a case they are expected to kneel immediately, being in the presence of a free man, or person, and be as helpful as possible.
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8 618 "You are not my master!" "The discipline of a slave," I said, "may be attended to by any free person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her master did not learn of it".
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9 6 My own position was near to, and rather at the foot of this ramp, such that I would be on the right of a person descending the ramp.
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14 351 "You are not my masters!" "Any free person can punish an errant slave girl," I said.
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18 361 No ordinary person could hope to perform this task.
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19 1026 Rather I castigated myself for my timidity, and reminded myself, again and again, that it was I who was the free person, I who was in control, I who was in command, I who could have my way, as I pleased.
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19 1369 Use discipline is within the prerogatives of a free person.
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20 463 In such a relationship the first note, if there were to be notes, given the risks involved, would surely issue from the free person.
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21 77 "That the message might emanate from a particular person in the house of Appanius, and presumably not Appanius himself, who would not be likely to have any direct business with the Ubara," I said, "was what gained your admittance.
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21 106 Similarly, by two leashes he can easily be immobilized, kept in place, held, say, between two leash masters, unable to reach either of them, or a third person.
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21 296 I wonder sometimes if such as I, a person, and such as you, no more than a beast, are even members of the same species.
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22 26 Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for t...
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22 176 If he did not catch her I would have to beat her tonight, for having disobeyed a command of that sort, from a free person.
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22 342 After all, on what grounds should they object to a legitimate command issued by a free person to one who, after all, was but a slave? "Attack him!" said the woman to the free men with her.
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22 355 "They will wish to ascertain what person ordered slaves to attack a free man, an innocent fellow merely engaged in reporting a misdemeanor".
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22 407 More than one person about gasped.
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26 62 "Alas," she said, "sometimes I myself grow weary of the preciousness and dignity of my person.
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26 470 "Do you think I am a common person? Do you think you can treat one of my importance in this fashion! I shall have Seremides have you boiled in oil!" "I am of the second Octavii," said Tolnar.
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26 500 "How can a slave order a free person to do anything?" he asked.
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28 124 I did not think I would care to be the first person through the door.
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Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

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8 482 Too, there I had been a person, and not an animal.
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9 11 They were issued to me in a female voice, belonging to a person I did not see, from somewhere outside the cell.
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9 95 It can be deemed presumptuous for a slave to directly meet the eyes of a free person, unless the permission is clear.
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9 271 Perhaps I had brushed against someone, the wrong person, and had permitted a tiny sound of irritation to escape me.
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10 515 In each of the double gates was a smaller opening which was now shut, through which only one person at a time might pass.
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10 637 I would have had to kneel before it, as before any free person.
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12 74 In such a situation, where a male might expect to continue the pursuit of a free woman, who is, after all, at that point, still a free person, he might not wish to tire himself pursuing a slave.
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12 273 I did know that an impassable gulf separated me from such lofty creatures, an unbridgeable chasm, one of the same immeasurability that separated the lowliest of domestic animals, which slaves were, from the heights and glories of the free person.
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12 304 But I feared it might be dangerous to speak to this person.
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13 411 Too, of course, in the presence of a free person, or persons, this is an appropriate, and common, posture for slaves.
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13 412 When a free person enters a room, unless we are serving another, or something of such a sort, we commonly kneel.
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13 571 Yet I reminded myself that I was not a free person, but only a domestic animal and thus, presumably, as long as I was docile, and obedient, and perfect in my service, and fully pleasing, I might hope to be spared.
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15 94 After recognizing their leader, whom I took to be an important person in this city, I kept my eyes straight ahead.
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15 128 "For most practical purposes you will be the only person he will know or see here".
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19 811 The information I wished I could not well obtain from either a free person, without great risk, or, indeed, from a slave either, for they would presume that anything so obvious must either be known to me or for some reason forbidden to me.
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46 35 As a slave, too, you would know the penalties for bringing harm, either directly or indirectly, to a free person".
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Book 27. (50 results) Prize of Gor

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1 103 It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
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1 104 It makes the person something, whether the person understands it, or knows it, or not.
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2 1 She Begins Her Story She was not a particularly bad person, nor, one supposes, a particularly good person.
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30 347 But they are only slaves, lovely properties, shapely beasts, purchasable goods, degraded articles of commerce, immeasurably beneath a free person, beneath the notice of a free person, save as they may prove to be of some service, convenience, pleasure or profit, such things, to him.
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30 594 The narrative, I fear is only too obviously a first-person story, though I have tried to tell it with some objectivity, largely in the third person, as perhaps befits a collared slave.
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30 597 This is then, I conjecture, a first-person narrative expressed largely, humbly, I trust, in the third person.
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1 13 It is my story, a very personal story, and so, it seems, one might most naturally use first-person discourse, and say, for example, "I did this," and "I saw that," and so on, and yet I am reluctant, afflicted with a certain timidity, to affect this voice.
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1 22 So I thought that I might begin, at least, by speaking in the third person, by considering myself, by seeing myself, from within and without, rather as an object, a particular object.
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1 24 So perhaps then I should write of myself as an object, for that is what I now am, as a simple matter of fact, an object, no longer a person, that no longer, if I were once that, but an object, to be sure, a very particular object, but one of countless hundreds, perhaps thousands of such, I do not kn...
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1 102 It can simply make these things come about, it seems, by pronouncing them, and then they are simply true, and that, then, is what the person is.
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1 105 The person might be made something or other, you see, and be totally unaware of it.
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1 106 Yet that is what that person, then, would be.
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4 271 "Doubtless, as an informed, intelligent person," said the young man, "you are aware of the existence of many worlds, and the overwhelming statistical probability that many of these, indeed, given the numbers involved, millions of them, are suitable for life as we know it, and that, further, given th...
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9 156 Did they not know she was a person? Did they think that she was an object, an animal on display? "Begin," said the young man.
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11 415 I am not the sort of person who would work for mere pay.
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11 491 But the utterance had clearly involved no suggested recognition of Ellen as a person, suggesting that she might be a human being in her own right, instead of the animal she was, for that would have been improper, and would have frightened Ellen, particularly as she was in the presence of her master.
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11 629 "It is customary for a slave to thank a free person for a compliment," he said.
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11 749 It is not as though you were a free person, and had a Home Stone".
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11 1009 I have never met one in person.
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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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15 32 That is common when the slave is before a free person.
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15 143 "It is not fitting that the name of a free person should be soiled by the tongue of a slave," she said.
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17 74 "He is a free person," said Barzak.
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17 76 "Are you a slave girl?" "Yes, Master!" "And you have failed to obey a free person?" "He is a little boy!" she cried.
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17 77 "So you have failed to obey a free person," he said.
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17 661 It depends on the person.
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17 668 "That is obviously false," said the man, "but, in any event, in your case, it is irrelevant, for the slave is not a person.
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17 670 For example, you are not a person, but a slave, and are thus a property, an animal, a chattel.
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17 1185 Ellen, of course, was an educated person, and historically informed.
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18 151 If her eyes might inadvertently meet those of a free person, she immediately lowered her head, and hurried on.
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18 204 Ellen did not participate in this socialization, as she feared her accent would reveal her as a barbarian, with perhaps serious consequences to her person, or worse, to her laundry.
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18 349 She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.
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22 19 "Do you not know enough to kneel before a free person, girl?" inquired the free woman.
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22 202 Forgive me for intruding the first-person voice into this narrative, which, on the whole, must deal objectively with the slave, Ellen, as the object, and property, she is.
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22 203 Would a verr or kaiila be permitted to write of herself in the first person? Sometimes, perhaps.
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22 255 In the Gorean theory, as slaves are animals, they may be managed by any free person, or, indeed, any designated slave.
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26 19 She wondered if he would come to the area in person, to claim her.
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26 699 "Death to the Ubara!" "She shall know the penalties for betraying the Home Stone, those to be suitably inflicted upon a traitorous free person," said a man.
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26 700 "Perhaps she is not a free person," said the red-haired man.
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26 1313 The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
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27 157 Incidentally, the penalties for a slave's striking, or attempting to strike, a free person are severe.
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27 2503 No woman in a collar is allowed out of the city except in the keeping of a free person, usually the master or his agent.
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27 3353 She must learn to speak not with the strident, insolent tones of a free woman, but with the softness, and deference, of the slave; see that she wears her tunic well, and attractively; she is to be neat and well groomed, brushed, combed, and cleaned; she is not a slovenly free woman; let her keep the...
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28 197 How Gorean he seemed now to be! He understood her now not as a person to be abducted, but as a slave, an item to be purchased or stolen, and mastered.
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29 114 It is common for a slave to kneel when she comes into the presence of a free person, and to kneel, too, should they, as in entering a room, come into her presence.
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29 347 Had it been a trap? A slave girl does not address a free person by their name, but will use the expressions 'Master' or 'Mistress', or, sometimes, if referring to one's owner, 'my Master' or 'my Mistress.
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29 348 ' Similarly, in referring to a free person, one would commonly use expressions such as 'Master Publius', 'Mistress Publia', and so on.
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30 596 Indeed, sometimes I fear that I have spoken in the first person and not the third.
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30 598 Now, however, in these last remarks, with no presumption intended, I will speak in my own first person, not of the slave, Ellen, who is I, but as I, who am Ellen, the slave.
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30 757 See, of course, that she cares for her person and appearance, and is suitable in her demeanor and speech.
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Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

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3 252 Too, a name which is regarded by one person as ordinary may, by another person, be regarded as quite unordinary.
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1 622 The brunette was, of course, too, a female, but, aside from her dreams, in which she was often well and callously handled, and as a female, and in some of which she even wore a slave collar, she chose, on the whole, save for certain gratifying, manipulative ambivalences, some of which may be noted l...
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5 172 The free person might be simply slain; the slave, as a valued domestic animal, would be far more likely to be spared.
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10 61 Some Goreans feel, too, that the name of a free person is a fine and noble thing, and thus one should not permit it to be touched by the lips and tongue of a mere slave.
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25 36 It is, too, of course, a common act of deference on the part of a female slave, to kiss the feet of a master, or, indeed, of a free person.
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36 142 In the pleasure cylinder, she had been taught to so proffer items to a free person.
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39 48 The person who salutes second is he who is recognized by the first, and thus is presumably he of higher rank.
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57 191 "I am pleased," said Flavion, "to learn that you are a wise and practical person.
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74 93 Cabot glanced to the other cages, in which the fair occupants were in first obeisance position, knowing themselves in the presence of a free person.
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80 80 Often they may feed from the dish much as a free person would, though their head is usually to be lower than that of their master.
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Book 29. (22 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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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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1 405 To be sure, it can be a capital offense for a slave to touch a weapon without a free person's permission, so there is little danger of the slave's attempting to conceal a weapon in the first place.
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3 67 By this I mean, despite certain suitabilities of face and figure, she had something of the tightness, the apparent inhibitions, the uncertainties, and confusions, masked with the compensatory arrogance, nastiness, and insolence, of many Earth females, afflicted with the customary ambivalences toward...
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3 421 An errant slave girl is not above being, say, knelt and cuffed by a free person.
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4 231 That she seemed so calm about this convinced me that she had access to the key, that either it would be within the hut, or, perhaps, more likely, on her person.
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4 235 I supposed, then, that the key would be about her person, somewhere.
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4 387 Too, as you may not understand, even a Gorean free woman is expected to show a fellow respect, as another free person.
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5 306 "You are to take your orders from this person, or his superiors," said Sullius Maximus.
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8 126 "I am honored," he said, "to greet a two-name person".
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8 130 "It is my hope, as well," I said, "that you will one day be a two-name person".
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8 184 He did not seem to me to be the sort of person whom it would be wise to treat with contempt.
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9 44 The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman.
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9 168 The word of the master, of course, takes precedence over the word of a free person who is not the slave's master or mistress.
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11 112 If you were a free person, she would be on her knees".
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14 170 "He is not a two-name person?" I asked.
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15 168 "She is now only a helpless, frightened slave! She is much at the mercy of any free person! Do you not feel for her?" I am beginning to understand manhood," said Pertinax.
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15 389 I had never seen this person.
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18 221 Such a sensitive and delicate gentleman, and particularly one so important, I hoped, at the first sign of trouble, would have been hurried to a location of safety, and a guard set about him to protect his person.
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23 251 The free woman is a person; the slave is an animal.
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24 74 Still, it is surely difficult to be looking at someone and not, if the person looks back, be seen as looking.
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24 78 "I think," said Lord Nishida, "all things considered, we have tested your alertness, your cleverness, and your benevolent dispositions concerning my person, whatever might have been their motivations.
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26 329 The chasm on Gor between the free woman and the slave girl is momentous and unbridgeable, the difference between a person and a property, between an honored, awesome personage, the exalted possessor of a Home Stone, and an animal, a beast, a mere beast, a form of stock purchasable in a market.
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Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 211 Such as she does not leave the presence of a free person without permission, either implicit or explicit.
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3 1102 "I was helpless and miserable, and in pain, and overcome with the enormity of what had been done with me, and was scarcely able to comprehend the radical transformation which had taken place in my fortunes, from a noble, lofty, exalted, free woman, a legal person, and one of wealth and station, to t...
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5 147 This, I sensed, from yesterday, and today, given the deference with which he was regarded, was a person of moment.
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5 370 Until now I did not realize he was a real person.
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12 173 She will commonly serve head down, and will keep two hands on the goblet or plate until it is placed softly, gently, carefully, deferently, before the free person.
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17 157 The deck of a ship, the structures and paraphernalia about, the footing often uncertain, sometimes difficult, is a venue no rational person would choose to traverse blindly.
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24 129 Muchly then does it impress their bondage on them that this delight may not be exercised without the explicit, or implicit, permission of a free person.
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24 190 Any free person is entitled to administer discipline to an errant slave.
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26 83 They had been insufficiently prompt in service, or insufficiently deferent, I gathered, to a keeper, or a free person, and had thus been brought down to the village and put on their chains.
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26 145 Also, of course, they were in the presence of a free person, in this case, a boy, of the lesser Pani.
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35 108 He was a personage of dignity, harbor master in Brundisium, perhaps the most important single person in Brundisium, or, at least, the best-known and most prominent.
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37 265 I supposed she had been aware of this protocol, that the slave does not address a free person by his name, but, perhaps, in the stress of the moment, this simplicity had escaped her.
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37 311 I doubt then that you, now a slave, would be impaled as high as a free person, for that might demean them, you, say, some seven or eight feet, not twenty or thirty, as they, to show your lowliness".
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37 546 "I would not do so, if I were you," said Alcinoë, who knelt, understandably enough, as she was addressing a free person.
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Book 31. (40 results) Conspirators of Gor

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5 140 And I knew the sort of person, a female person, to whom such a question was likely to be addressed.
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4 208 It was the first time I had ever knelt before another person.
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4 693 I did not even think of myself as a free person.
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7 15 It is often safer to be a slave than a free person.
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7 725 I was not a free woman, a person, a citizen, the possessor of a Home Stone.
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8 223 In some sense this doubtless contributes to social stability, and, surely, it tends to make the average fellow content with his own person, profession, background, antecedents, and such.
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8 412 She has no self to defend, no honor to preserve, no person to strive to keep isolated and inviolate.
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8 1958 Some of the customers, I knew, kept such small treats about their person, or in their pouches.
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9 148 I would not dare to speak to a free person, but I hurried to a tower slave in the crowd, trying to learn what had happened.
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9 326 No free person had given me permission to rise.
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9 327 We are on our knees as easily, and naturally, and as appropriately, as the free person is on his feet, or sits on his bench or chair, or reclines, at ease, on his supper couch.
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10 595 A free person might seek sanctuary in a temple, but a slave might be killed, if found within one, after which the temple must be purified.
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10 669 "I was an important person on my world," I said.
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10 670 "I am not the sort of person who is set to such tasks".
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10 681 "I was an important person on my world," I said, falteringly.
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10 682 "I am not the sort of person who is set to such tasks".
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10 729 Who knew when a slave, perhaps near the shop, at a fountain, on the street, might be displeasing? Free women, abroad, often have a switch about their person.
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10 860 I had no doubt, of course, that a Ubar, or, indeed, any person of means, might have several slaves.
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10 1052 I kept to the center of the bridges as much as possible, kneeling to the side if a free person was passing.
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10 1059 "A barbarian," laughed more than one person passing me.
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10 1091 An occasional person looked up, and then moved on.
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10 1110 If the laundry slaves had been about then, and noted my passage, they had not disturbed me, as I was accompanied by a free person.
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11 217 I, and perhaps Antiope, as well, was uneasy at this, as one commonly kneels before a free person, often with the head down.
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17 326 As he was a free person, I had to obey, of course.
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17 330 Is she to disobey a free person? He then put his hand under my chin, lifted it a little, and said, "Slave lips".
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18 660 I was not eager to sustain the attentions of a displeased free person.
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18 780 The slave will commonly kneel when a free person enters the room, and, if knelt, will usually await permission to rise.
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18 1020 Too, I had the natural temerity of the slave before the free person.
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20 30 A slave is less than the dirt beneath the sandals of a free person.
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20 290 I knelt, of course, as I was in the presence of a free person.
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26 233 I then found myself beneath the frown of a free person.
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41 64 Thus, when the door was opened, I would be suitably positioned, slave before free, property before person.
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42 3 Three differences, or obvious differences, for I did not know what others might be being enacted privately, were that the container thought by some to be pertinent to the person of Agamemnon was now seldom publicly visible, the men in the Cave had been disarmed, even to knives, and policing in the C...
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46 49 First, there was a significant reduction in the displays, usually ceremonial, of the mysterious container which was commonly believed to contain a treasure, most likely of diamonds, but which was understood by some of us to be somehow relevant to the person of Agamemnon himself.
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46 104 As one from a different world, a grayer, more dismal, more crowded, more polluted world, a mass world of homogenized humanity, a world in which excellence is suspect, and must be concealed, a world of cunning and greed, of envy and duplicity, of hatred and fanaticism, a world alien to honor, a world...
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47 7 "Free person!" cried Nora.
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48 12 "It is our understanding," said Agamemnon, "that you have discovered, and have come forward to reveal, a most heinous plot, disrespectful of our majesty, threatening to our person, and inimical to the welfare of worlds".
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48 36 "It is clearly understood, of course," said Desmond of Harfax, "that I bring the matter of egregious treachery to your attention simply, and only, to frustrate treason, and protect the person and plans of your lordship".
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49 168 This was divided and placed in sealed packages, each properly inscribed with the name of the free person to whom it was to belong.
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50 26 Sometimes Lord Grendel would deliver a message somewhere in person, and, sometimes, retrieve a message from some unknown source.
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Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 135 The free individual is a person; the slave is not; she is an animal, and is usually marked and collared as such.
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7 139 The free person knows himself free, and conceives of himself as such.
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9 235 The free woman is a person, a citizen, and may possess a Home Stone; we are animals and properties, marked and collared as such, and we lack Home Stones, for such are denied to beasts.
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25 366 Their aggression, diverse behaviors, and such, are often triggered by private, secret, verbal signals, sometimes taken from only one person.
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31 46 "You saw," snapped Tuza, "she raised her head, before a free person, without permission!" "True," said Darla.
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39 380 A slave is not to strike a free person.
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39 461 Too, in this way they are less likely to make eye contact with a free person.
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41 196 On the other hand in, say, the street, eye contact between a slave and a free person, say an unknown male, or, particularly, a free woman, is rare, unless commanded.
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41 219 Too, I did not think it wise to initiate a physical contact with a free person.
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41 321 If they wanted some great blast let it be sounded by some free person, not one whose body was subject to the lash.
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46 81 She is not entitled to a free person's accouterments, say, a purse or wallet.
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47 81 A free person will retain the fire maker, and the slave, who has usually arranged the materials for the fire, will tend it once it is burning.
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50 148 It is strange, I thought, how Gorean masters, before whom we are negligible, at whose feet we are nothing, who hold us in the lofty contempt of a free person, will kill for us.
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50 273 He would doubtless soon learn, whereas I, if I were to inquire of a free person, might be cuffed.
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Book 33. (19 results) Rebels of Gor

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3 30 I was then confident of the location of at least one person, and it seemed unlikely there would be more.
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12 363 Then I sensed another person in the room, who had entered from the side.
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13 492 The slave, summoned, commonly kneels before a free person, waiting to be commanded.
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19 79 Indeed, it is commonly understood that a slave may not speak without the permission of a free person.
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19 82 They understand, of course, that this permission is revocable, even instantly, at the discretion of the free person.
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20 38 They would kneel to receive their dishes or vessels from the table of the kitchen master, the serving table, toward the back and right of the room, rise, approach the guests' table, kneel, and, their arms extended, their head down between their extended arms, place the dish or vessel, held in two ha...
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21 61 Surely, shortly thereafter, he had chided Lord Akio, when that noble person, presumably fearing for his shogun's life, had thrust his sleeve dagger into the neck of the assailant, severing the vertebrae at the base of the skull.
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30 61 A slave commonly kneels upon the appearance of a free person.
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30 111 "I am not a high, noble person," said Haruki, "who may be fooled, deluded, and tricked by the first grasping, greedy peasant met on the road.
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30 307 The slave commonly addresses requests, petitions, supplications, and such, to the free person from a kneeling position, which is appropriate to her condition.
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30 537 The free woman is a person; the slave is a purchasable, vendible animal, a domestic beast".
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42 29 "It seems there would have to be at least one person on the premises capable of reading written orders".
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42 52 The whip master was reluctant to supply the master key to which the ankle locks of the slaves would answer but it was easily rifled from his person.
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44 98 Free women in jeopardy, say, a blade at their throat, rather than accept an honorable death as a free person, as is prescribed, may declare themselves slave, after which they are stripped and bound, and, despised as the slaves they now are, are held for the iron and collar.
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45 216 "But few who would fit that description," I said, "would be likely to be a two-sword person".
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46 389 "As a rightless slave," I said, "you may be claimed by any free person".
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46 391 "And you will then belong, wholly, to that person," I said.
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57 128 As a slave, then, she was subject to the claim, and possession, of any free person who might care to make such a claim.
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60 132 How dared he touch the person of the shogun? On the shogun's left shoulder was the odd mark, which so resembled a lotus.
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Book 34. (43 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 423 For an insult to take place there must be a commonality of levels, free to free, person to person, citizen to citizen, even slave to slave, even beast to beast, but levels cannot be crossed.
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49 63 Indeed, who notices a slave when the business of men is afoot? Lord Grendel had wished me to accompany my master to the meeting, presumably to have an additional and independent witness to the proceedings, for the sake of a fuller account, as one person might notice or remember things not noticed, o...
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67 75 "When one cares for a person," said Kurik, of Victoria, "one cares for the whole person.
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1 366 I am not a celebrity, not a famous person, or such, and my name is not 'Kajira'".
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1 474 Perhaps a second person might have managed something but my hands were so closely pinioned that I could scarcely angle a pin into a lock, let alone address one directly, and the nail file was too short, as I could hold it, to do more than rest on the metal, and my fingers were too weak to exert more...
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1 495 Such a person might obtain tools, expeditiously enough, innocently enough, arousing no suspicions, at a hardware store.
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2 311 It is my honor and joy to serve a free person".
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2 315 "A slave may not address a free person by their name".
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8 408 She was a reliable person, who would do much for another, asking nothing in return.
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9 288 It would be necessary only to appeal to a free person, to win my freedom.
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9 289 This person, obviously, might be either a male or female.
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9 585 Had I then, despite his injunction, dared to address myself to a free person? "Did she speak to you first, Master?" inquired the dealer.
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14 184 "Are you accusing a free person of lying?" he asked.
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17 78 "So you would deceive a free person?" she cried.
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17 91 "Do not think to trick a free person.
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20 152 In this way a right-handed person's weapon hand faces the oncoming stranger.
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20 190 We were in the presence of a free person, the Lady Bina.
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30 6 It was appropriate then that I, a slave, should kneel, and be in a position of suitable subservience and submission, before a free person.
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32 119 He then turned to me and I, illuminated and before a free person, knelt, my head down.
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33 482 Later, if you wish, as you are free, a free person, you may choose another".
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33 483 "I am a person?" she said.
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33 488 That simple beast, a mere beast, a thing that was crated, was free, a person, and I was not! It was on my neck, not hers, that there was a collar! But, of course, I was a mere woman of Earth, an object, a suitable property for the men of this world! "Nothing, Master," I said.
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34 274 "But you said she was free, a free person," I said.
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34 276 "What if," I asked, "if she is a person, if she is free, she does not wish to companion herself with the monster?" "Then," said he, "as she is a female, she may simply be collared, and owned".
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35 27 It is merely a slave's way of inquiring concerning the master of another slave, or a free person's way of inquiring of a slave the name of her master.
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35 181 She can be bound helplessly, by any free person.
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43 65 In some respects she is imminently practical, and, in others, oblivious of practicalities which, to a normal person, suitably acculturated, would seem patent, practicalities of Home Stone, of family, of caste, of station, of power, and such.
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45 49 He was now garlanded, and clothed in the robes of a free person, and apparently one of high station.
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45 61 I hated him for how he had fooled me! I wondered what it would be to be in his arms, submitting to him as I would have to do, as a slave, as though I could have helped myself! I was no longer my own person, not that I wished to be.
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49 64 Too, a slave might notice things that might escape the notice of a free person.
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49 429 Stand, wait for the nod, and then pour, deferentially, and carefully, very carefully, and then step back, head down, lest one's eyes meet those of a free person, in particular those of a free woman.
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51 204 If Marlenus knew of you, and truly desired you, would he not have confronted you in person, urging his suit with fervor?" "But I am beautiful, am I not?" she asked.
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51 303 Thus, there will be no question as to where the additional person, in this case, a slave, came from".
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53 46 They no more fear utilizing them than the average person of my former world would fear utilizing a common sidewalk.
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60 39 "Surely you know you are in the presence of a free person".
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61 390 Did he think I was a free person? Did he not realize I was kajira? "Hurry!" he said.
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61 532 One is a person, and, in favored cases, a citizen, and may even possess a Home Stone.
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61 729 If a free person senses the least unwillingness, resistance, or insolence in us we can be punished, terribly.
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63 445 I was torn between my desire to tell Paula what I had done and beg her forgiveness, and my fear of her finding out what I had done, and what sort of person I was.
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64 153 But who knew the interior life of such a person, her dreams, her wants, her needs? Who would know that she wanted to kneel at the feet of a master, in his chains? On Gor Paula had found herself as she wanted to be, collared, and owned.
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68 319 It can be dangerous to meet the eyes of a free person.
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68 354 "I have no doubt that it is an urt, fishing in a garbage can, doubtless half starved," said Kurik, "but it is a foolish urt who will make a sound within the hearing of a free person".
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68 477 "Would you have her, on your own premises, deny a legitimate command issued by a free person?" "I should have been informed," said the man.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 241 If I was so terrible a person, I did not care.
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2 147 When addressed by a free person, it is common for a slave, recognized, to kneel.
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2 151 I was frightened to be on my feet, even held so, before a free person.
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