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Pity

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	53	I felt sorry for the girl, a helpless pawn in this sorry man's game of empire, and the tiny animal noises she uttered moved me to pity.	10
12	64	Of one thing I was certain—there would be no human assistance or even pity, for the poor wretches on the frames are none but villains, betrayers, and blasphemers against the Priest-Kings, and it is a sacrilegious act even to consider terminating their sufferings.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	140	At such a time a man may not be spoken to, for according to the Gorean way of thinking pity humiliates both he who pities and he who is pitied.	10
3	141	According to the Gorean way, one may love but one may not pity.	10
5	71	Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the Priest-Kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and fields of Gor in guilt and a...	10
5	72	It was pity, the forbidden emotion, and yet he could not restrain himself.	10
19	9	And the eyes of Ost, too, like those of a terrified urt, looked from face to face, pleading, but Ost found no pity in those eyes that looked upon him as though they might have been composed of stone.	10
22	182	Should there ever be a revolution in the ways of Tharna I would pity her women—at least at first—for they would be the object of the pent-up frustrations of generations.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	152	"Have pity," she said, "if not on Vika of Treve—on a poor girl who is only your slave".	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	140	I felt genuine pity for the Tuchuk girl.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	262	I felt pity for them.	10
13	1053	I realized with a blaze of misery, and self-pity, that to such a man it was only I who could be the slave.	10
16	163	"Have pity on me, Mistress," I wept.	10
17	104	I pity them.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	69	"Surely," I said, "you will have pity on a slave, however unworthy, who was once a citizen of Ar?" "I shall free her, or have her freed," said Marlenus.	10
11	954	"Yes, Master!" I glanced at her collar, glinting in the light of one of the camp torches, and took pity upon her.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	25	I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea.	10
1	181	Many Earth moralities encourage resignation and accommodation; Gorean morality is bent more toward conquest and defiance; many Earth moralities encourage tenderness, pity and gentleness, sweetness; Gorean morality encourages honor, courage, hardness and strength.	10
8	16	"I might have you fried in the grease of tarsk," she said, "boiled in the oil of tharlarion!" "Will you not take pity, great Lady," I whined, "on those who did not suspect the civilization, the refinements, of the north?" "Perhaps," said she.	10
8	88	I am now no longer patient!" "Have pity, great lady!" I wept.	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	551	"A pity," said he.	10
7	569	"What a pity," he said.	10

Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	258	Too, I was consumed with pity for my poor unfortunate sister.	10
3	503	I looked to him for pity.	10
3	504	In his eyes there was no pity.	10
4	790	In that instant I felt suffused with joy for I felt then that he would, in his kindness, cover me, protecting me from the eyes of his men; perhaps, too, he had been moved by my plight; perhaps he was now sorry for how cruelly he had treated me; perhaps now he would try to make amends; perhaps now I ...	10
5	231	"Have pity, Mistress!" wept the caught slave girl, her head to her mistress' sandals.	10
5	236	"I followed her," said the Lady Sabina, "and found her here, shameless in the arms of a soldier, touching, kissing!" "Pity, Mistress," wept the girl.	10
5	645	"Pity her!" I heard the sounds of the night outside the tent, the insects, the cries of fleers.	10
9	2250	"Yes, Master," she said, "as an abject and meaningless slave—one hoping her master will take pity on her, and touch her".	10
12	378	Often had we spoken to him soothingly as though in deference and pity, as though he might not be kneeling chained in the fortress of enemies; sometimes, too, we had spoken to him in husky whispers, as though he had much aroused our feminine slave bloods; much had we pressed upon him our kisses, our ...	10
20	482	"Have pity on a slave, Master," I begged.	10
22	699	"Have pity on a poor slave," I begged.	10
22	700	But I saw in his eyes that he would have no pity on me.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	121	They will pity you for your shame and weakness.	10
3	228	"Please, Master," she said, "take pity on me.	10
3	229	Take pity on the miserable needs of a girl".	10
3	1329	She had begged me to take pity on her needs.	10
3	1356	"Take pity on a slave, Master," she said.	10
3	1366	"Please, Master," she wept, "take pity on me.	10
3	1367	Take pity on the miserable needs of a girl".	10
9	269	—What are you?" I wondered if it was as clear to them as it was to me that they had little hope for understanding, pity, or succor from the stern, regal figure before whom they knelt, which regarded them with such ill-concealed disdain.	10
14	252	Pity the poor woman who goes to Imnak's tent! I am pleased that I am not going to his tent! I would not go to his tent for anything!" "I have had enough," said Imnak suddenly.	10
15	531	"I pity women who are not women," she said.	10
37	72	I pity even the free women of this world, who cannot know the joys and loves of the female slave.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	46	"Save me! Save me! Take pity on me! I have been left here to die! Take pity on me! Save me! Please, save me!" "Have mercy on her, Master, please," begged Janice.	10
2	183	For a moment I almost felt moved to pity.	10
11	128	"How I pity the men of such a place," he said.	10
11	241	Have pity on a slave!" The girl in the black slacks drew back her hand again, again to strike with the five-bladed slave lash, but he who had been called Kunguni motioned for her not to strike.	10
13	565	Then she said, "How I pity them, those poor free woman, such as I was.	10
15	85	"A pity," he said.	10
32	736	'Have mercy on me, Master! Mercy, Master, mercy! Take pity on a worthless slave!' The wrist leashes then tightened, to plunge me forward into the lifted, waiting, lunging jaws.	10
34	539	I shall exhibit the desperation of these needs before my master, in the hope that he will take pity on me and satisfy them.	10
43	10	"Men! Men! Please help me! Take pity on me! Help me!" "Look, Master!" cried Alice.	10
43	102	"Take pity on me! Help me, please!" "Have you any doubt now?" I asked.	10

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	487	'It is a pity that you are so stupid,' he said, 'else you might bring a higher price.	10
2	242	"But have you no pity for your pathetic captures?" I asked.	10
2	243	"They deserve no pity," he said.	10
3	372	"But I feel no pity for you sorry males of Earth," she said, "for you have permitted this to be done to you.	10
11	111	I was silent, overcome with pity for her.	10
21	59	"It is a pity she is not to be raped," he said.	10
30	7	"Take pity on me, Jason," she said, head down.	10

Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	327	"Do you pity me?" he asked.	10
22	329	"I pity you".	10
22	332	"Pity?" he asked.	10
22	339	"Pity?" he asked.	10
24	333	Our masters, of course, did not give us a great deal of time to indulge our self-pity.	10
24	702	Take pity on me.	10
25	26	In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consequences attendant upon it he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	187	"Pity the brave lads of Port Cos," muttered a man.	10
17	752	"You felt pity and indignation seeing the abuse of one of your sisters in bondage?" I asked.	10
18	311	How I pity the unfulfilled, frustrated women of my old world whose sex and dispositions, meaningless and largely useless in the bleak labyrinths of an artificial world, must be thwarted, suppressed and denied, in the interests of economic and mechanistic exigencies.	10
20	2034	"How I pity poor free women who cannot wear such things".	10
21	839	"Yes, Master! I am now happy! I now rejoice! I have my collar! And I pity so the poor slaves who lack theirs!" "Perhaps they will find their collars," I said.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	76	"I pity Zarendargar," said Samos.	10
8	1073	Take pity on us! Sell us to another!" "Make us pot girls!" begged Ginger.	10
13	1401	"Instead, take pity on me, I beg of you, and find me pleasing".	10

Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	57	On the other hand, before one is moved to pity or contempt, it should be recognized that most Goreans, for example, have access to a complex oral tradition, abetted by singers, story tellers, and such, and, too, that literacy is not as needed on Gor, nor is it as prized on Gor, as it is in certain o...	10
13	206	"I do not pity her".	10
13	209	"I do not pity her," said Cuwignaka.	10
13	211	"I do not pity her," said Cuwignaka.	10
14	514	Take pity on me.	10
22	202	"Doubtless you feel keen pity for them," I said.	10
48	69	"Have pity on me, Master," wept Iwoso.	10

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	90	It was not outrage which I felt, interestingly, nor pity.	10
15	91	"How I sometimes pity free women!" laughed the second girl.	10
15	294	"Have pity on me, Masters," she wept.	10
17	122	"Take pity on me," I said.	10
31	439	The beast! The beast! I would show him! I would resist him! I would refuse to feel! I would not let him do this to me! "Please have pity on me, Master!" I cried.	10
33	544	"Pity!" I begged.	10
36	1268	Master's slave begs Master to take pity on her!" He smiled, and I put down my head.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	519	I did not know what true men were until I came to Gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and fulfillments which are mine, ...	10
1	338	"Pity me! Consider my sensibilities!" His face was expressionless.	10
5	246	"I desire your touch! I desire to serve you! I beg to please you! I plead to please you! Take pity on me! Do not torture me so! Do not make me wait longer! Hurry to me, Bosk of Port Kar, my lover, my master!" "Good," I said.	10
14	27	"Have pity on the poor sleen," laughed a man.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	490	"It was merely that she attempted to elicit my pity, to win my choice, telling me that if she was not chosen tonight she would be whipped".	10
25	502	"Does he look like the kind of man you could play your silly little games with, does he look like the kind of man you could manipulate with pity? Can you not see he knows what slaves are, and knows how to handle them.	10
25	1389	"You are very kind to take pity on a woman," she said.	10

Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	948	"Take pity, I beg you, Master, on a poor slave.	10
16	150	"Take pity on me!" "But we are not in his hire," said the leader.	10
20	4	"Kind Master," I begged, "have pity on a female slave, desperate in her need".	10
20	292	"A needful slave begs master to take pity upon her," I said.	10
24	548	Perhaps it had to do with her pity for me, only a slave, one as helpless as she, but one in much greater danger here, because of her work for her former master, Tyrrhenius of Argentum.	10
24	721	"Then for pity," I said.	10
29	762	"Have pity on her!" said Mirus.	10

Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	190	"I would pity her if she were a free woman," she said, "and I pity her now, that she is a slave".	10
5	740	"How I pity them!" she said.	10
6	408	"I must find a gentleman to redeem me," she said, "a true gentleman, one who will take pity on me and nobly buy me out of my difficulties".	10
8	861	I considered feeling pity for her, and then dismissed the thought, for it was weakness.	10
15	917	"It is a pity that such lusciousness must be destroyed," he said.	10
16	189	Surely in the cell, often enough, I gave you ample evidence that my fitting destiny was to give my entire being to the selfless love and service of a man!" "You pity her because you are yourself no better than a slave," I said.	10
21	190	"Take pity on a female!" The men were silent, observant.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	380	Ina made a protesting noise, a begging noise, that he who gripped her take pity upon her and not too soon desist in his attentions.	10
45	150	Better to take the field with laughter, with a joke, with a light thought, with a buoyant heart, or to go forward with sternness, or in fury, or with hatred, or defiance, or calculation, but never with self-pity, never with sadness.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	582	"I am at your feet," she wept, "branded, collared, legally enslaved! I am without recourse and absolutely helpless! Take pity on me! Surely you will not deny me the fulfillments of my condition!" "Kneel," I said.	10
19	474	"Have pity on me! I am only a poor slave!" "Do you think it is permissible for you to lie to a free man?" I asked.	10
19	752	I had only wanted to call myself to his attention, and had hoped doubtless that he might sometimes be moved to take pity on a poor slave.	10
19	952	"It is my hope that he would take pity on one who is only his slave".	10
19	1246	Take pity on me!" "You wish to placate masters?" I asked.	10
20	81	I belong to you! I am yours to do with as you wish! I must do anything for you! I want to do anything for you! I beg to do anything for you! I beg you to have pity on me!" "I have tested your responses, slave," I said.	10
20	216	"Please have pity on her, Master," she said.	10
21	440	"'I would hope,' I said, 'that Mistress would to some extent, in view of her fabled beauty and the damage that even the thought of it may wreak in the hearts of poor men, be rather moved to pity, be rather moved to look leniently on this bold transgression.	10

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	136	If it would be stupid, or absurd, as I suspected, if not dangerous, to pretend to a belligerent stance, to protest, or threaten, or to appeal to legalities, the purport of which might well be aligned precisely against one, then perhaps, I thought, one might appeal to the pity, the mercies, of one's ...	10
7	150	More than once I had, in my former places, bared it to a guard, in mute petition, calling thusly to his attention what I was and what I wanted from him, and what I hoped for from him, and what I needed from him, thusly pleading without words that he might deign to take pity upon me.	10
7	152	Then they would either take pity on me, or not, as it pleased them.	10
11	1790	"It seems a pity," said one of the men, oddly enough the one who had just used the whip on me.	10
13	479	Too, I need not pity her too much, nor with fear and loathing bemoan the uniqueness of her fate, for the monster to whom she addressed the title "Master" was none other than that to which my own service and deference were due.	10
13	766	Why did it not begin? How merciless would it be? Let it pity me! I was only a slave! Then it made a little noise, as of satisfied curiosity.	10
14	1552	"A pity," he said.	10

Book 27. (15 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	624	"Take pity on me!" "I will take pity on you with a whip!" called a fellow.	10
17	289	How they had cried out in gratitude and joy when a guard had taken pity on them.	10
20	257	Now I am only a collared slut, an aroused, needful, begging slave! Masters, have mercy on me! I will try to please you, Masters! Take pity on a needful slave! Then, suddenly, her attention was directed ahead.	10
25	470	Oh, future master, have pity on the slave you will buy! Assuage my needs! Content me, if only a little! Would you not caress any pet animal upon occasion, particularly if she begs prettily enough?" "Squat!" she heard, a man's voice, from several yards away, from somewhere behind her.	10
25	569	Pity your impoverished sisters who have not yet met masters.	10
26	1215	The slave prostrates herself before the master, her hair about his sandals, hoping he will be merciful, that he will take pity on her.	10
27	597	Might he not pity her, if only eventually, a former woman of his world, now a slave, helpless in her collar, as it might not occur to a Gorean to do? And did she not fear Selius Arconious whom she was sure would not be slow with the whip, should she prove in the least displeasing? And did she not ha...	10
28	83	Oh, would that he would take pity on his slave! Please caress her, Master.	10
28	221	Can he just look upon me and see that I belong in a collar? How could he know that? Clearly he has no intention of lifting me from my knees, and freeing me! He does not even look upon me with pity.	10
29	87	Did she think to find succor, or rescue, or to elicit pity, from behind those narrow, closely set bars? Did she not know she was in a slave wagon? Did she not know she was on Gor? Did she not know that there were men here? Ellen thought that perhaps she had been troublesome, and that that was why sh...	10
29	252	She must challenge his affections, appeal to his pity, confuse him, take him off balance, force him to acknowledge his undoubted feelings for her.	10
30	33	Pity the putatively free women of Earth, she thought, in their deserts, cluttered with social artifacts largely constructed by the subglandular, pathological, effete, feeble and impotent, trying desperately, unhappily, to conform to orthodoxies imposed upon them, orthodoxies invented in effect by wi...	10
30	491	So pity the poor free woman who would yield herself as a slave to her lover and does not do so, for her enmeshment in the chains of pride.	10
30	534	"Take pity on a slave," she begged.	10
30	802	I pity my sisters who do not know the collar.	10

Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	98	What a pity, he thought, to waste such loveliness, doubtless not even understood, on a Kur.	10
19	40	Pity is regarded as belittling both he who is pitied and he who pities.	10
21	340	"It is a pity to take your rubies so easily," said Peisistratus.	10
25	110	Cabot steeled himself against pity.	10
40	89	"Yes, Master!" "Perhaps I shall take pity on you," he said.	10
43	443	"To be sure," said Cabot, "it seems a pity to think of that pretty little body disfigured and mangled, burned with irons, torn by hooks, coated with honey, and then put out, alive, staked out naked, helplessly, for the delectation of flocks of tiny, carnivorous song birds.	10
80	207	"If you care for me, Lord Arcesilaus," said Lord Grendel, "have pity, not only upon her but upon me, as well! Spare her this! Spare us all this horror!" "It is only a pet," said the Kur, again.	10

Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	290	"A pity," I said.	10
10	228	They fear free women, but, in their way, pity them for they cannot know the ecstasies, fulfillments, and joys of the slave.	10
10	304	Surely he must understand her plight, and take pity on her.	10
13	119	"Have pity on me!" she wept.	10
15	167	"Have pity on her," begged Cecily.	10
28	94	Could one not read in their countenances a mute plea for pity? They did not dare speak for fear of being struck.	10
38	287	But I had seen nothing in the glance of Licinius which had suggested shame or pleaded for pity and understanding.	10

Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	42	The free woman often hates the slave; the slave, often, feels not only fear of, but also pity for, the free woman.	10
15	234	If anything, I saw horror, and pity, in the frightened eyes of the slave.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	24	Rescue me! Do not let me be taken by this beast!" Surely they must have some pity, or feeling, for one who was, after all, a female of their own species, though one with a brand incised into her left thigh.	10
10	1333	"It is a pity to waste you on a woman," he said.	10
26	220	"Have pity on her!" I said to Desmond of Harfax.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	291	Did she expect to ascend them, and thrust her hands through the bars of the gate, and elicit pity; did she think the gate would be opened, and she would be released? Did she not know that there was no escape for the Gorean slave girl, and that that was now what she was? Did she think she had been br...	10

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	21	Lost in self-pity and self-reproach I had risked much for nothing, risked much for no more than a meaningless gesture.	10
24	54	"It seems a pity to relieve him of his post for so small an indiscretion, particularly in the light of his experience, knowledge, and diligence".	10
25	190	"Pity her," I said.	10
41	20	"Too," I said, "considering the size of the camp, the number of fugitives, and the large number of peasants, tradesmen, craftsmen, deserters from the holding of Temmu, and such, in the camp, one might pity the search squads.	10
41	22	"Nonetheless," said Pertinax, "I will struggle to withhold my pity".	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	65	That is a pity.	10
9	4	How could I not be noticed, so close to them? Did they not know I was here? Had they no feeling for me? Would no one pity me? Would someone not bring me clothing? My neck and body were bare.	10
9	107	No one to pity me? No one to save me, and return me to Earth? But then I realized I was not such as to be saved.	10
9	140	Indeed, he may look down upon, or pity, other castes.	10
9	323	Free me! Have pity! Have mercy upon me! Buy me, and restore me to freedom!" I noted, but scarcely registered it at the time, that the girls in the cages about, those in the vicinity, had knelt, and pressed their heads fearfully to the metal floors of their tiny, sturdy confinements.	10
11	214	"Can you not see she is spent? Pity her, lest she perish at the pole!" "If she perishes at the pole," said the first girl, "it will be my doing!" The switch then rained down upon my back, and legs, and neck, and I scrambled to my feet, sobbing, seizing the pole.	10
19	28	Do free women scorn us for our needs? Do they despise us for our vulnerability, our helplessness? Let them then wear the collar and strive to resist the flames burning in their own bellies! And will they not be successful until, at last, overcome, they crawl to their master, they, too, begging, whim...	10
57	16	I could almost pity free women.	10
68	410	Pity free women.	10

Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	60	"Pity, pity, have pity," begged Bruno of Torcadino, lurching forward another pace.	10
1	116	How do you think your date, your male friends, would view you, if they understood you were a slave? How would they think of you, how would they treat you? Would they pity you and commiserate with you, or would they do with you what they would feel like doing, would want to do, would have a right to ...	10
11	76	Were it not for our terror of free women, who so despise us and who, for some reason, are so unconscionably cruel to us, we might pity them, for they do not know the warmth, the reassurance, and joy of the collar.	10
11	433	"You see me before you, kneeling, half naked, on an alien world, helpless, collared, a slave! Surely you view me with keen commiseration! Surely you view me with pity!" "Not at all," he said.	10
11	438	"Pity me!" I begged.	10
12	10	How glorious it is to be in the arms of a Gorean male, and as a slave! How I pity the poor free women, lacking a collar.	10
17	150	Ridicule and derision they will bear, but not pity.	10
27	55	"Mercy! Pity! A tarsk-bit for a starving fellow".	10
27	119	"She elicits insufficient pity," said the first man.	10
31	51	I would have been overcome with pity, save that I knew Bruno of Torcadino.	10
39	161	"Take pity on a mere slave!" "'A mere slave'," said Miles.	10
46	357	Pity the poor things, to be so challenged.	10

Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	50	"A woeful pity," said Thurnock.	10
46	105	"I pity so troubled a world," said a man.	10
63	160	"Have you no pity for her?" I asked.	10