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Practical

Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	138	"I am," Torm had said, "too practical to involve myself in the frivolities of government".	10
5	145	Ar had, for most practical purposes, surrounded itself with an invisible wall, a bleached region, forbidding and almost impassable to those on foot.	10
9	65	As I prepared to bracelet her for the night, she became practical once again, her optimism and good spirits apparently restored by the food.	10
11	59	How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical...	10
17	41	By morning most of the important arrangements were known in the camp, and for all practical purposes Ar had fallen.	10
19	99	I did not even know if they were human or nonhuman, but, whatever they might be, they were, with their advanced science and technology, for all practical purposes, the gods of this world.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	77	Needless to say, the whistle is important and carefully guarded, for should it be lost or fall into the hands of an enemy the warrior has, for all practical purposes, lost his mount.	10
3	18	I wondered if it would be practical to continue my journey.	10

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	80	Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw.	10
13	26	One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind.	10
17	68	I would have thought that some type of cells for avoiding collisions when the accelerator strips are depressed might have been useful or that a bumper of gas, or a field of some sort, might have been practical improvements but Sarm felt that such refinements would be excessive.	10
19	42	It is possible that had it not been for them and the changes they wrought in an ancient form of life there might have been no such modifications, for such modifications might then have been of little practical utility and thus, if they had occurred, might not have been perpetuated".	10
19	61	For all practical purposes it now seemed that Priest-Kings would be invulnerable to my blade, though I supposed I might have injured them severely if I sliced at the sensory hairs on the legs, at the trunk joining thorax and abdomen, at the eyes and antennae if I could reach them.	10
24	8	The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell.	10
28	94	If no other choice seemed practical I supposed I could always keep her chained in my own case.	10
29	99	I would have had a clean burst at the ship but the tube was, for all practical purposes, no longer an effective weapon.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	57	If we could get the crossbows into the compound itself, perhaps even to the outside walls, we could for most practical purposes close the compound to entrance and escape by air.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	137	If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...	10
14	106	I had, for most practical purposes, the freedom of the house.	10
15	361	The training of the girls, over the months, had been substantially completed, and would be for all practical purposes finished by the end of the twelfth passage hand.	10
22	306	The Ubar's Race would decide the honors of the day, and of the Love Feast and, for most practical purposes, the season.	10
24	33	"With the departure of Kazrak and the appointment of Minus Tentius Hinrabius as Administrator of the City," Hup continued, "the return of Marlenus became practical".	10

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	65	In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island.	10
8	108	This arrangement, in effect, transformed the formerly isolated barges into what was now, for all practical purposes, a long, single, narrow, wooden-walled fort.	10
11	168	Nominally beneath its aegis, I might, for all practical purposes, be free to augment my house as I saw fit, the House of Bosk, of Port Kar.	10
14	45	This arrangement, one man to an oar, and oars in groups of three, and oars mounted in the rowing frame, long and beautiful sweeps, has been found extremely practical in the Gorean navies.	10
17	75	In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	349	Knowing no English themselves, they had no choice but to teach me a living language, in life, as practical and concrete as a tool, as expressive and beautiful as flowers and clouds.	10
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	548	In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft.	10
6	432	If the fire were suddenly extinguished they would, for an Ehn, for all practical purposes, be blind, at the mercy of the panther girls.	10
6	997	She was still, for practical purposes, fresh to her collar.	10
12	103	Thus she was, for practical purposes, of a high name but without family.	10
15	99	If I could make it so that the panther girls feared to leave the camp, and, in the marches, would insist on remaining near the long slave chain, putatively protected by their numbers, the men of Tyros would be, for many practical purposes, deprived of the services of their otherwise dangerously effe...	10
22	712	Female freedom, of a full sort, would not have been biologically practical.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	90	Their education, generally, is of little obvious practical value, with its attention to authorized exegeses of dubious, difficult texts, purporting to be revelations of Priest-Kings, the details and observances of their own calendars, their interminable, involved rituals, and so on, but, paradoxical...	10
9	379	The delicious little thing, like the other goods of the hall, was, for most practical purposes, for the use of us all.	10
11	203	I had strong doubts, of course, as to whether a Kur invasion of the south was practical, unless abetted by the strikes of Kur ships from the steel worlds.	10
18	233	Men would, for practical purposes, be blind.	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	291	"If war erupts, fully, in the desert," said Hassan, "the desert, for all practical purposes, will be closed.	10
21	302	Even Ibn Saran, with all his brilliance, did not, I supposed, conjecture his role as dupe in this plan, precipitating tribal warfare, thus effectively, for almost all practical purposes, closing the desert to intruders, strangers, agents either of Priest-Kings or even of alternative Kur parties.	10
24	19	At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock.	10
24	105	Once she had served Priest-Kings; then, later, she had well served others, the Kurii and their agents; I watched her comb her hair; now I suspected she was for most practical purposes useless in the politics of planets; but she had been spared; I watched her movements; I smiled; I, too, would have s...	10

Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	160	I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t...	10
2	383	It was heavy, circular, of black iron, hinged, efficient, practical, frightening.	10
3	634	Many men permit a girl, for most practical purposes, to eat simultaneously with him, provided he begins first and it does not interfere with her service to him.	10
4	315	Borrowed expressions, as in linguistic borrowing generally, take on the coloration of the borrowing language; in time the borrowings become naturalized, so to speak, being fully incorporated into the borrowing language; at this point they are, for all practical purposes, words within the borrowing l...	10
4	941	Too, they are branded, which further makes escape, for almost all practical purposes, an impossibility for them.	10
5	29	In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women.	10
7	151	You must be attired for such a journey in a more practical fashion".	10
7	170	"I think now," said my master, standing back, regarding the girl, and his work, "that that constitutes a far more practical traveling costume than the robes of concealment for a long, overland journey afoot.	10
7	468	For most practical purposes, she had been put in the charge of Lehna almost from the first moments of her capture.	10
7	655	Perhaps I was more practical than she.	10
9	1014	For most practical purposes they are correct.	10
9	1016	Clans, because of practical limitations on mobility, are usually associated, substantially, with a given city; the caste, on the other hand, is transmunicipal or intermunicipal.	10
13	147	She is illiterate, and, for most practical purposes, untrained.	10
25	123	"Yes," said Bosk, "both from a practical and theoretical point of view.	10
25	124	From the practical point of view, if a cipher is used briefly and for a given short message, it may be impossible to break.	10

Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	550	For most practical purposes, except for a few small, close islands, of little or no importance, the mosaic ended there.	10
9	205	Thus, after a year or two, a girl who now speaks a beautiful, fluent Gorean, one for most practical purposes indistinguishable from that of a native Gorean, is still likely, inadvertently, unbeknownst to herself, perhaps in so little as the shading of a phoneme, to reveal her Earth origin.	10
23	98	I sensed then it was not a simple beast, the degenerate and irrational descendant of survivors of a Kur ship perhaps crashed generations ago, descendants to whom the discipline and loyalty of the ship codes were meaningless, descendants who had for most practical purposes, save their cunning, revert...	10
24	179	When the superior woman does meet a man superior to herself, who will also, simply because he is a true man, put her in the authentic biological male/female relationship where she belongs, at his feet, she will generally, unless there are mitigating psychological reservations, functions of her own c...	10
24	264	How proud I was of her! She was for most practical purposes untrained and new to the collar and yet many girls whom I had had, even in paga taverns, I suspect, could not have equaled her performance.	10
26	146	They had now, for most practical purposes, targeted their quarry.	10
27	157	At the outer end of the tunnel, gently, I edged out the snow blocks which, for most practical purposes, closed the opening.	10
29	143	"These garments are not practical for the ice," said Poalu.	10
35	30	I was interested not so much in official thresholds, of a sort which I supposed would be provided to facilitate the work of lookouts and guards, as apertures more practical to my purposes, apertures unguarded through which passage would not require any system of recognition devices.	10

Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	485	The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.	10
3	67	One of the most practical strategies for those who would avoid guardsmen, of course, is to follow them in their rounds.	10
5	251	"For all practical purposes," she said, "I was".	10
5	497	Too, what man who has known the glory and joy of a girl at his feet is likely to wish to exchange that for the inconvenience and bother of a free woman? No, slave girls, for all practical purposes, are not freed.	10
5	590	A girl with pierced ears on Gor might as well, for all practical purposes, give up even the slimmest of hopes, should she entertain them, of freedom.	10
6	578	My own observations would lead me to say that for all practical purposes there is, on the equator itself, no dry season.	10
13	526	All else, for most practical purposes, follows from that.	10
14	112	"You will then be," I said, "for all practical purposes, irrevocably a slave".	10
14	121	I decided that I would guarantee, for all practical purposes, that she would remain in a collar on Gor.	10
33	88	Similarly, from the position of the flotilla we would be, of course, specks upon a larger speck, for most practical purposes invisible.	10
34	376	"For most practical purposes the expression 'slave object' is not well chosen to express the realities involved.	10
34	377	Indeed, for most practical purposes, the expression is not only misleading and infelicitous but, as you have pointed out, inapt".	10
49	71	That serves as a practical guarantee that the victim, usually an animal, will die.	10
57	16	"Even if you were not chained, and wished to escape," I said, "I do not think such a venture would now be practical".	10
57	129	If the journey had not been downriver I do not think it would have been practical to put them at oars at all.	10

Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	209	Academic thinking does not have the same sanctions of success and failure as practical thought.	10
3	63	But now, from this facility, as from others, they are simply scattered, after two or three days' training, to various markets, sold, for most practical purposes, ignorant and raw.	10
4	278	"No," she said, "for, for all practical purposes, it would be the end of the human race".	10
5	172	I am for all practical purposes a man, but one trapped by some cruel trick of nature in a woman's body.	10
8	36	Some were perhaps, for most practical purposes, without manhood.	10
10	79	After I had been locked in the cell, only one man, for all practical purposes, had controlled me.	10
13	35	The Olni, for practical purposes, has been freed of river pirates.	10
13	543	I do not think this was simply because we feared to irritate or offend passing Goreans, who tend to view languages other than their own as barbarous, or because slaves are expected to use a speech intelligible to their masters, but because, for most practical purposes, Gorean had become our language...	10
18	119	You will, for all practical purposes, belong to me.	10
23	125	In time, though I wear a collar, I shall be, for all practical purposes, mistress in the stables!" "I see," I said.	10
25	311	Gorean masters, for most practical purposes, simply do not lose slaves.	10

Book 15. (12 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	402	When one brings a girl to an alcove one may keep her there for most practical purposes as long as one wishes.	10
1	403	She is yours, for most practical purposes, until one chooses to re-open the curtains.	10
4	473	These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.	10
6	33	In burning and sacking Vonda Ar had, for most practical purposes, satisfied its sense of military propriety.	10
6	44	When it had become clear, incidentally, that Ar had, for most practical purposes, spared Lara, the troops of Lara, not bothering to join with those of Port Olni and Ti, had returned to their city.	10
6	88	Escape, for all practical purposes, is a statistical impossibility for the Gorean slave girl.	10
8	69	Before him, even with the blade in my grasp, I would have been, I knew, for all practical purposes, defenseless.	10
10	244	Too, there is no practical trade of which I am the Mistress".	10
22	300	For all practical purposes, considering the forces that could realistically be marshaled upon the river the stronghold of Policrates was impregnable.	10
23	12	These two major ports crippled the river, then, for all practical purposes, will be ours".	10
24	671	Indeed, in most public auctions, such actions on the part of the girl are for most practical purposes impossible.	10
29	119	"He is a man of shrewd and practical judgment," said Callimachus.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	409	If, at some later time, she is collared, she will then, for all practical purposes, have the answers to her questions.	10
20	130	They would wait, it seemed, to see whether or not the league became an effective, practical political reality upon the Vosk.	10
20	1058	The practical and symbolic significance of binding the woman is, I gather, clear to all.	10
20	1062	To be sure, strictly, a woman might find herself tied by a man who does not own her legally, but even in such a case, she will experience herself as being owned in a rather practical and significant sense, that sense, namely, in which she is completely at his mercy and under his control, that sense ...	10
21	760	To be sure, I suppose some men of Earth, for most practical purposes, are Gorean.	10

Book 17. (19 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	106	To Gorean eyes the piercing of the ears, this visible set of wounds, inflicted to facilitate the mounting of sensual and barbaric ornamentations, is customarily regarded as being tantamount, for most practical purposes, to a sentence of irrevocable bondage.	10
1	520	It might, indeed, be, for most practical purposes, a diplomat.	10
1	674	Such creatures, being territorial, individualistic and aggressive, much like men, would not be likely to find the bland idealisms of more vegetative organisms interesting, attractive or practical.	10
1	779	Carrying such weapons they might be mistaken for beasts of their race who now, for all practical purposes, were native to Gor, beasts descended from individuals perhaps long ago marooned or stranded on the planet.	10
1	785	For most practical purposes life goes on on Gor much as though they did not exist.	10
1	791	The Priest-Kings, lofty and golden, remote, inoffensive and tolerant, were all, for most practical purposes, that stood between the Kogs and Sardaks, and the Earth and Gor.	10
1	996	To be sure, from a practical point of view, the pelt makes an excellent camouflage.	10
1	1070	Indeed, there are also, in many tribes, practical considerations which also become involved in these matters.	10
3	75	The only practical answer to these dilemmas is not continued suppression and censorship, but a society, a world, in which nature is freed to thrive.	10
10	107	If this did not seem practical we might separate, dividing our pursuers, and meet later at a prearranged rendezvous, thence to return under the cover of darkness to recover, if possible, what we had lost".	10
11	182	You are totally and legally, as well as in practical fact, the property of your master".	10
13	1192	Escape, then, for all practical purposes, becomes impossible".	10
13	1306	In these hours, in my blankets, for all practical purposes, I owned her.	10
14	63	It is thus, for most practical purposes, impossible to remove and replace such a collar without the master, in his checking of the knot, by untying and retying it, being able to tell.	10
14	496	Theoretically, one supposes, a high bid might be made on what lay concealed beneath the hide and then the hide, the bid accepted, might be withdrawn to reveal a wench as ugly as a tharlarion, but the Dust Legs knew, in the practical context, that Grunt would not do this to them.	10
15	106	What can be understood of the glances of masters and slaves by those who have been united only in lesser relationships? Too, to be sure, from the practical point of view, it is useful for a girl to be able to look into the eyes of the master.	10
15	113	From the point of view of the master, too, not only is it pleasant to look into the eyes of a slave, but there are certain practical advantages attached to doing so.	10
17	737	"Then, for most practical purposes," she said, "they are slaves without masters".	10
17	740	"For most practical purposes, for most of the time, I suppose," I said.	10

Book 18. (15 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	133	The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use.	10
1	347	For most practical purposes I was free in the village.	10
4	187	He likes wagers, practical jokes and telling stories.	10
7	183	For most practical purposes she knows that if she behaves in certain ways she will not feel it, and if she behaves in other ways, she will feel it.	10
9	54	Indeed, for the afternoon, or, I supposed, until, within reason, I chose to return her to the lodge of Canka, she was, for all practical purposes, my own slave.	10
12	662	Free women, whose sexuality is usually, for most practical purposes, sluggish and inert, often have difficulty in understanding the desperation and intensity of these needs on the part of a female slave.	10
14	19	"Radish is the leader of our small expedition to the camp," said Pumpkin, "and is, for most practical purposes, first in the compound, in our home, Garden Eleven, although we all are, of course, the same".	10
14	74	The chain of command, then, for most practical purposes, except tactical situations, would have been Kurii, then the Lady Mira, and then Alfred, the captain from Port Olni.	10
14	211	"Too, for most practical purposes, she is first in the compound.	10
14	392	"It is not practical," I said.	10
18	271	In that lodge, this afternoon, would be gathered, for most practical purposes, the leadership and aristocracy of the Kaiila nation.	10
44	110	"No," she said, "for they might take you here, surprising you and surrounding you, you being isolated in this place, you being, for most practical purposes, trapped with little possibility of escape on Council Rock".	10
44	112	"Yes," she said, "else the work begun at the summer camp might for most practical purposes be concluded here.	10
44	113	The Kaiila might, for most practical purposes, be wiped out".	10
54	308	Thus, first, those who had been Waniyanpi were now no longer slaves of the Kaiila and, second, they now maintained what amounted, for most practical purposes, to a small free state within the Barrens.	10

Book 19. (22 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	499	As they had had me pose in the shorts and blouse, and had had me move, I was sure they had little doubt, for most practical purposes, as to what I looked like.	10
3	597	After all, had I not been taught that I was, for most practical purposes, the same as a man, and not something deeply and radically different? Too, such garb has its defensive purposes.	10
4	167	I hoped that my condition was not evident to the stern, practical Ligurious, first minister of Corcyrus.	10
6	74	The birds, thus, for most practical purposes, could be brought to flight almost immediately.	10
6	125	Besides, for most practical purposes, I did regard them as true.	10
6	283	For most practical purposes we were alone on the wall.	10
7	134	It was now, for most practical purposes, universally effective.	10
7	135	Too, as Drusus Rencius had mentioned, its effects, at least for most practical purposes, lasted indefinitely.	10
15	272	Many girls, when they first go into a collar, do not realize that escape, for all practical purposes, is impossible for them, or how easily, commonly, they can be picked up and caught.	10
15	273	The practical impossibility of escape is a function of several factors.	10
19	153	For most practical purposes, as he had treated me, even though technically I might be the Tatrix of Corcyrus, I was a half-starved slave.	10
21	40	Too, he had little of practical value in giving such beasts the initial scent.	10
23	274	Furthermore I knew the security in the mills, behind those high, gray walls, was for most practical purposes absolute.	10
26	378	"I am not sure this is practical," said a man.	10
26	399	"We may then say, may we not," asked Aemilianus, "that for most practical purposes you are untrained".	10
27	184	You may learn more in your first few days out of school, in the practical contexts of bondage, under the control and whips of masters, than you have here in five weeks.	10
27	195	We were, for most practical purposes, new girls, untutored in our collars.	10
28	25	Their immunity from bondage, or practical immunity from bondage, is a matter of custom.	10
28	33	The only other caste on Gor which is generally considered, for most practical purposes, as immune from bondage is the caste of players.	10
28	36	The general affection and respect which Goreans feel for the game of Kaissa is probably the explanation for the practical immunity from bondage commonly accorded the members of the caste of players.	10
31	313	"You are now going to make as complete a circuit of the room as is practical," he said.	10
31	314	"You will, where practical, kiss the walls at the corners, on each side of the corner, about five horts from the corner and about ten horts from the floor.	10

Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1100	Too, for all practical purposes, they make escape impossible for the Gorean slave girl.	10
2	289	The character, even before he greets the audience in the initial parade of the actors, is for most practical purposes established, and in rich, complex detail; furthermore it is anticipated with relish and welcomed with affection.	10
2	755	If they were not unique in this fashion they could not act as practical counters in the game.	10
2	1357	"There comes a time," she said, "when the slogans no longer suffice, when it is no longer practical to deny the barrenness of the rhetoric, a time when the myth is seen to be meaningless".	10
6	952	"Not every man wants to own every slave," he said, "or, at least, it would not be too practical for a fellow to own every slave, for that would be a great many slaves".	10
9	104	Their instructions, it seemed, had been, for most practical purposes, tantamount to an enslavement sentence.	10
11	115	Who would want to risk one in such a foolish manner? Free women, on the other hand, being priceless, have for most practical purposes no value whatsoever.	10
12	477	"Such ciphers are, for most practical purposes, impossible to decipher without the appropriate keys, null-square listings, and so on".	10
12	499	This would make travel and communication between them practical in a world where strangers are often regarded with suspicion, indeed, a world on which the same word is generally used for both "stranger" and "enemy".	10
12	823	"For most practical purposes," I said, "she is yours.	10
13	220	In such a cell, a humane one as Gorean cells went, the table and benches served a practical purpose.	10
16	998	In its nature it would be a prank, a practical joke, perhaps a somewhat cruel one, at the least a broad Gorean jest.	10
18	214	These, too, were not portions of Boots's props but practical custodial hardware, rings of a sort common on Gor for the chaining of women, generally slaves.	10
18	228	In this fashion the trunk becomes, for most practical purposes, a normal trunk.	10
18	503	But by the time it might occur to someone, recollecting my connections with the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit, that a trick of so devious a nature might be not only practical but, given the peculiar circumstances of my escape, likely, I did not expect to require the eccentric premises of my unusual hidi...	10
20	248	Even if they had been regrouped and set, the distance was so short and the attack of the beast so precipitous and swift that there had been no time to align their weapons in a practical, properly angled, defensive perimeter.	10
21	323	"It seems the only practical way".	10

Book 21. (15 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	173	Too, many such companies are, for most practical purposes, disbanded during the winter, the captain retaining then only a cadre of officers and professionals.	10
3	407	Peasants, unlike women of the cities, tend to be very practical about such matters.	10
4	37	In accepting this arrangement, the Alars, of course, were in an excellent position to observe the course of events, and, if it seemed practical to them, take possible action.	10
5	8	It did not seem practical to bring it.	10
5	450	This becomes clear when it is understood that for all practical purposes there is no escape for the Gorean slave girl.	10
13	147	It is a simple, practical, inexpensive arrangement.	10
13	279	To be sure, it did mean that there lay at their disposal some actual practical chance of escape, however slim that chance might be.	10
13	285	As suggested earlier, for all practical purposes, for the Gorean female slave, properly identified, branded and collared, there is no escape.	10
13	294	One might point out, in passing, that not only for all practical purposes is escape impossible for a Gorean female slave, but, interestingly, few desire it.	10
14	27	The navies of Tyros and Cos, for most practical purposes, command the green waves of gleaming Thassa.	10
14	28	They control many of the most familiar and practical oceanic trade corridors.	10
15	193	Too, for most practical purposes, they keep it closed to traffic and trade".	10
16	599	In any event her views on such matters, from the practical and economic point of view, whatever they might be, must defer to those of the holders of whips, the keepers of chains, men.	10
21	78	"They have been turned out of the city to make its defense more practical," I said.	10
25	10	By now she was doubtless marked and collared, and chained somewhere there, presumably in the lower pens, as she was for most practical purposes a new girl.	10

Book 22. (13 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	229	I had, for most practical purposes, worn it since, even sleeping in it, in my kennel.	10
6	613	Here, for women such as I, escape was not an option; here, for all practical purposes, it was simply impossible.	10
6	629	I had not thought much about such things, in a real, or practical, sense, until now, now that I was outside of the house.	10
9	33	Though there is usually a liberal sprinkling of sawdust onthe block it is usually there less, I think, for practical purposes than for symbolic ones, for example, making clear the animal nature of what is vended there, and for the sake of tradition.	10
9	278	Indeed, I suspected that there would always be more to learn about service and love, that such things were fathomless and limitless, and, thus, in a sense, the notion of being "fully trained," or knowing all there was to know, was in actuality less of a practical goal than a lovely ideal, one which ...	10
13	118	Indeed, as the silk was diaphanous, he could, for most practical purposes, see that.	10
13	630	I wished for a foolish moment that I might be again like a woman of Earth, one without needs, or with such low need levels as to be for most practical purposes inert, or with need so rigidly and effectively suppressed as to provide a functional surrogate for such inertness, or, perhaps, even one who...	10
13	874	When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death or become in...	10
17	17	Gorean petitions to the Priest-Kings seem on the whole to be very specific, and very practical.	10
17	216	Too, of course, as a practical matter, this further assured that the draw would be at the front of the collar.	10
24	664	Too, given the culture, her marking, the closely knit nature of the society, and such, there was, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl.	10
28	88	It had now, for most practical purposes, been converted into a holding hole.	10
29	1347	Fulvius, perhaps more ruthless or practical in such matters, but a judicious tactician, had, I think, not wished to proceed at that time with an action which might bring about a disagreement or confrontation with his subordinate, one of whose sword he might shortly have need.	10

Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	511	We suggested earlier certain considerations, practical and lexical, which might bear on this practice.	10
2	213	This place, for most practical purposes, lacked guardsmen, though doubtless it kept a burly fellow or two on hand to deal with possible emergencies.	10
3	51	Because of it, for the first time, large tarn cavalries, numbering in the hundreds of men, became practical.	10
5	596	It can come as a great shock to them to suddenly realize they are, for most practical purposes, worthless.	10
6	153	There was a practical aspect to this as well, of course.	10
6	398	Although such notions are not unknown on Gor, the average Gorean tends to be somewhat more practical and businesslike than the average hero of such stories, if we may believe the stories.	10
8	595	It is not really practical to hold every fellow for ransom, or every lady for redemption.	10
8	690	And surely for most practical purposes she was.	10
8	848	Perhaps now, for most practical purposes, the route was cut off.	10
9	142	Also, it did not seem to me practical to try to enter the city during the daylight hours from the harbor side because of the besiegers.	10
17	20	Sorties, the object of which is to fire the towers, are less practical than it might seem at first glance.	10
17	21	Such towers are usually well defended, and are often not brought into play until such excursions are for most practical purposes beyond the resources of the defenders.	10
21	1298	Next to her beauty, and perhaps her tears, is it not her most effective and dangerous weapon? And when its use is denied to her she is, for most practical purposes, helpless, totally at one's mercy.	10
23	41	To be sure, the man who used them in that fashion might as well be, I supposed, for most practical purposes, their master.	10

Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	38	To be sure, in another sense, a very practical sense, no one "earns her keep" like the female slave.	10
3	54	A needle tree provided practical cover from the sky.	10
3	346	This tends not to be practical among members of the caste of Players, of course, as their ratings are carefully kept, and are a matter of public record.	10
12	380	Much more practical for the delta would have been the skimpy garments of female slaves, the brief tunics, the short, open-sided, exciting camisks, the scandalous ta-teeras, or slave rags, indeed, the many varieties of stimulating slave garments, sometimes mere strips and strings, garments deliberate...	10
19	341	Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this tending to secu...	10
19	605	"On the other hand," I said, "you would seem to be, for most practical purposes, having to do with the furs, a virgin".	10
19	1134	Perhaps there is a practical motivation for such interests.	10
25	14	Though it is not practical in the delta, such barges, too, could be tied together, and towed.	10
26	173	On the other hand, for most practical purposes, there is no rescue for a female slave, only a change of masters".	10
26	214	That between Harfax and Besnit had concluded, however, with a practical victory for Harfax.	10
37	158	Similarly the pervasiveness of bondage throughout human history is a sufficient demonstration that a diversity of cultures in a plenitude of times, for whatever it may be worth, if anything, have found its institutionalization convenient, practical, rewarding, beneficent, and desirable.	10
37	287	I had not wished to bring Marcus and Ina to the wagon of Ephialtes, of course, for it was, for most practical purposes, within the Cosian camp.	10
43	137	"Some fellows," I said, "I suppose, might return at night and steal her, perhaps cutting a throat or two in the process, but that is not practical for one of the Marcelliani, one who is an honorable fellow, an officer and such".	10
43	152	"And, independently," I said, "it would seem that the wanton slaughtering of Ephialtes, an innocent, unoffending sutler, and doubtless his slave, Liadne, as well, in the perpetration of what would seem to be for most practical purposes a mere act of theft, might raise delicate questions of honor".	10
45	112	In the end, of course, they blend into the culture, as suggested, and, eventually, for most practical purposes, become indistinguishable from other slaves, they, as the others, all muchly concerned to be pleasing to their masters.	10
46	248	The slave girl on Gor soon learns, if she does not already know, the categoricality of her condition, that it is for all practical purposes, and for all realistic possibilities, inescapable, inalterable and absolute.	10
46	317	I had not known if it would be a practical place to hide or not.	10
47	36	I then, and two or three other fellows, they keeping their distance, all of us moving purposefully, and as rapidly as was practical, began to examine the cages, the kennels, the fair prisoners of the numerous stakes and posts, of the slave bars, and the chains in our immediate vicinity.	10
47	218	"She is already, for most practical purposes, mine".	10
49	9	To be sure, although they are the absolute property of their masters, and are absolutely, and in all ways, at the disposal of their masters, their safety, for most practical purposes, is largely in their own hands.	10

Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	376	There is, accordingly, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl.	10
3	52	"I do not think it would be practical," I said.	10
4	62	In any event, most of those in the city, surely the largest part, by far, of its population, had no practical way to leave the city, lest it be on foot.	10
14	186	In this case, however, I suspected this was no typical grouping of slaves, of the normal sort, but a tiny covey of girls either with weak masters or masters whom they suspected might be weak, a natural enough suspicion in an Ar where the men of the city, betrayed and defeated, helpless and confused,...	10
16	282	If we dismiss the delta veterans the only practical choice is Ar's Station.	10
18	134	They are usually then sold, the proceeds from their sales, minus various fees, being used to satisfy, in so far as this is practical, the claims of the former master's creditors.	10
18	211	"You are as practical as ever!" said the large fellow, delightedly.	10
20	523	In so far as it was practical it seemed he wished to be present at, and, in a sense, supervise, all phases of this delicate and, I thought at least, perilous operation.	10
20	678	If one wants a woman, there is no practical alternative.	10
22	263	Marcus and I had struggled with the note for a time and then, for all practical purposes, had given it up.	10
22	270	The script of Ar's Station is, apparently, for most practical purposes at any rate, the same as that of Ar.	10
22	279	For most practical purposes, you see, you are primarily mine to cuff, or beat, as I might please, and not others".	10
22	656	The scabbard and strap is then discarded, to be recovered, if practical, later.	10
23	75	That is not practical".	10
24	171	In this way the average woman of Earth has little practical understanding of either freedom or bondage.	10
27	269	"It is perhaps the simplest, most practical device for such purposes.	10

Book 26. (29 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	128	As I lay there in the darkness, in my chains, and considered the factuality and simplicity of my predicament, and the apparently practical and routine aspects of my helplessness and incarceration, I suspected that my current situation was not at all likely to be in violation of legalities.	10
2	174	But then, I supposed, apart from practical matters, such as security, and mnemonic considerations, and such, that that might be regarded as much a matter of appropriateness as anything else.	10
3	29	It was extremely brief, and was, for most practical purposes, diaphanous.	10
5	25	I had wanted to look closely upon, and even to touch, the ascendant surface of that looming confinement, so beautiful, and yet so practical, and formidable.	10
5	120	It was extremely brief, and was, for most practical purposes, diaphanous.	10
6	22	I refer, of course, to appraisals in a practical, factual manner, having to do, for example, with what men will pay for us.	10
6	193	It is, rather, for most practical purposes, only the body of a normal woman, as women are, only that.	10
7	9	It was extremely brief, and was, for most practical purposes, diaphanous.	10
7	155	But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to ...	10
7	962	We had no direct contact with the outside, and, for most practical purposes, those outside had no direct contact with us.	10
9	162	I had heard, of course, only one woman, and, for most practical purposes, had only heard her once, when, unseen, she had issued my directives.	10
9	233	On this world, on the other hand, I knew that I had a value, a particular, practical value, based on what men would pay for me.	10
10	661	Indeed, from such a height, even if one is not gagged, it is not practical to communicate.	10
11	433	Or perhaps they merely wished to have me drink slave wine before them, either for their amusement, or because of the effects of this act, which were not only practical but symbolic.	10
11	1566	I was sure that they were through with me now, at least for all practical purposes.	10
12	469	"So," said she, "whatever his caste, assuming it was high, of course, it would be practical for us to contemplate a companionship, and if his caste should be thought higher than mine, however mistakenly, I could, in such a relationship, be thought to raise caste.	10
13	759	In this place, for all practical purposes, I was his.	10
13	760	In this place, for all practical purposes, I belonged to him.	10
15	127	"For most practical purposes you will be the only one to attend upon this prisoner," he said.	10
15	128	"For most practical purposes you will be the only person he will know or see here".	10
19	403	In short, they do not dispute the existence of the Priest-Kings but do not, on the whole at least, depend upon them in any practical way.	10
19	631	Masters do not much interfere in the squabbles of slaves, you see, and, for most practical purposes, it seems that this was at least the sort of category in which the free woman now found herself included.	10
19	795	She was now, for all practical purposes, though her body had not yet been marked, the property of masters.	10
24	153	To be sure, this is normally done only when recognition is practical, or important.	10
24	252	Whereas the buildings, and towers, might be burned out, it would be practical, on the whole, to do it only from the inside.	10
29	721	"On the practical level?" he asked.	10
29	799	Such things are in part cultural, and in part practical.	10
38	58	He is, for most practical purposes, unarmed.	10
46	466	How could any man have survived in the mountains, alone, for most practical purposes unarmed.	10

Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	54	In one sense, then, it is x years of age, and, in a more revealing, practical sense, setting aside calendars, which are now for all practical purposes pointless, and simply irrelevant to the facts of the case, it is B years of age, so to speak.	10
4	175	Did he not know that? The older woman, then pleased with the reticence and, for most practical purposes, the disappearance of the blonde, addressed herself delightedly to the young man, realizing that she was now somehow the center of his attention.	10
11	994	"Too, in a way, it is to put her off guard, psychologically, of course, for there is no way she could guard herself now, at this point, in any practical fashion".	10
13	547	At one moment a woman is free and priceless, and then, in another moment, suddenly, she becomes a very practical, tangible commodity, something very real and very factual, something with a specific value, like any other piece of merchandise.	10
17	161	Her practical age now, in terms of biology, physiology and such, was, say, eighteen, and that might have been the actual chronological age of the lad.	10
17	1188	Women such as she, straightforwardly and naturally, without a second thought, save for the most practical means to accomplish the end, had been captured, raided for, seized, enslaved, and bought and sold.	10
20	665	Their function, apart from their obvious practical aspects, such as security and control, was symbolic and psychological, having to do with their relationship to the dominance/submission ratios of organic life.	10
22	334	To be sure, as she was a slave, such things were important, even from a very practical, even from an economic, point of view.	10
25	599	"Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a...	10
27	2464	A slave or prisoner so hobbled is for most practical purposes immobilized.	10

Book 28. (18 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	14	I think we have no practical alternative to this procedure, and, accordingly, we beg the reader's indulgence with respect to this liberty, accompanied as it must be by its concomitant distortions.	10
5	105	This was true, as she had been, for most practical purposes, reared by nurses, maids, and governesses, none of whom would have dared risk their positions by more than a suggestion or a gently reproving word, easily ignored.	10
20	159	"Would she not be in danger from Arcesilaus," asked Cabot, "for she was used to bait a trap, one in which Kurii were slain?" "Arcesilaus does not bear her ill will," said Peisistratus, "but, too, it is not now practical for him to keep her.	10
32	69	Lady Bina, to the extent practical, was robed.	10
39	51	It is only to be expected that he who attacks will select, in so far as it is practical, those targets whose loss is likely to be the most debilitating or crippling to the enemy.	10
44	271	"He is more practical, surely," said Lord Grendel.	10
46	166	It is interesting to note that if the ends of the world had been hemispherical, or conical, as in several of the worlds, the approach would have been, while still dangerous, yet more practical, as the rotational gravity would have pressed one against a resistant surface, it lessening, of course, as ...	10
47	138	It is not unknown amongst larls and sleen, but the sleen usually strikes for the throat and the larl, where practical, particularly after it has bled and exhausted its prey, bites through the back of the neck.	10
48	26	Some thought had been given to the concentration of the eight weapons for a raid on the palace itself, but it was soon understood that the palace was not only closely guarded, but was, for most practical purposes, impregnable.	10
55	8	Despite its isolation, and practical remoteness, it was, however, as indicated earlier, not altogether removed from the vicinity of the habitats, and it lay within a night's march of the palace.	10
56	158	The light then began to dim, and soon, again, Cabot, and other humans, found themselves in practical darkness, save for some fires on the slopes, brief, soon-extinguished fires, marking places where the grass, here and there, in half circles of some yards, had been ignited by sheets of blazing, disc...	10
57	191	"I am pleased," said Flavion, "to learn that you are a wise and practical person.	10
61	18	"Not so here," said Lord Grendel, "the habitats are, in their way, a land, a territory, at least, for most practical purposes, a world in itself.	10
63	121	In this action may perhaps be detected the astute recommendation of Flavion, whose grasp of politics, diplomacy, and war was of a most direct, simple, and practical sort.	10
63	146	Indeed, the following Kurii were not even aware, immediately, that two of their number, those closest to Lord Grendel, were no longer with them, but had been, for most practical purposes, with two charges from Cabot's weapon, incinerated.	10
77	99	A human could not easily lift such a tool, let alone put it to practical use.	10
80	54	Soon, Cabot had heard, there would be a slave market for such established on the world, and soon thereafter, he supposed, some of these slaves, doubtless in chains, would be carried to others of the steel worlds, and then it would be but a matter of time until the useful and practical, and delicious...	10
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.	10

Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	369	The justification for this grasp is practical and aesthetic, practical in the sense of assuring greater control of the vessel, and aesthetic, having to do with symmetry, and a framing of the slave's beauty.	10
9	41	In my view, however, my concerns and cautions were not excessive, but practical and judicious.	10
9	46	Her safety, of course, would lie with men, and masters, who would to the extent practical, given a free woman's status and prerogatives, protect her.	10
14	56	More practical on the whole, I thought, everything considered, would be the metal buckler, smaller and easily managed, with one hand, rather than an entire arm.	10
14	88	The saddle bow lacked the power of the peasant bow but it was practical from the saddle, and could match the rate of fire of the larger weapon.	10
19	182	Torches, in particular, would not be practical as a single torch, fallen into the straw, would result in the loss of the stable, and its housing for several tharlarion.	10
20	75	We crouched down, bucklers forward, to cover as much of our bodies as was practical, and surely the chest and throat.	10
22	125	"I fear that is not practical," said Tajima, "for you are a spy, and traitor".	10
26	62	This arrangement, however, is commonly practical only where danger is perceived to threaten from a given direction, or a small number of directions.	10
35	40	"It is not practical".	10
40	27	Too, roofing, where practical, if not sheathed in metal or coated in wet hides, would succumb to the canisters of pitch and fire, lit and cast by our tarnsmen.	10
40	158	There is efficiency in that, and it may be practical, or necessary, but little glory.	10
43	60	In any event, there are numerous uses for domestic sleen, far more than it would be practical or convenient to enumerate.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	314	Accordingly, when she arrived in Ar, she was not returned to glory, to position and power, but removed from public sight, being sequestered, for most practical purposes, imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder.	10
3	192	I gathered she did not yet know what she was, except doubtless in some practical or legal sense.	10
3	341	I shuddered to even touch such things, the garment tiny and flimsy, the collar light but so imminently practical and efficient, with its tiny, sturdy lock, which went at the back of the neck.	10
3	1290	In this fashion the body is stretched, providing a convenient, practical, exploitable expanse for the whip's work, and the body can recoil and writhe, and pull away from the blows only to the extent that one realizes how little one can succeed in such an endeavor.	10
5	162	Who would act upon such intelligence? To whom would one remand Seremides of Ar? How would one petition for, or collect, the bounty? Who is there to pay, or act in this matter? Information which might mean wealth and power on the continent, information which might put armies on the march, which might...	10
9	46	If landfall were practical from our current position surely our outriders and scouts would have discovered this, returned, reported it, brought back much needed supplies, and such.	10
9	404	Perhaps, too, given the exigencies of their task, whatever it might be, and its urgency and prospects, whatever they might be, they had been concerned to move as swiftly as would prove practical.	10
12	433	"He will not move until it is practical," said Cabot.	10
25	12	Three additional precautions tended to militate against a practical ascent of the plateau, one of which was quite new to me.	10
37	277	The sirik is a lovely and practical chaining arrangement.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1047	Indeed, perhaps, eventually, for most practical purposes, it would be a secret shared primarily between the slave and her master.	10
12	70	Then it occurred to me that, from what she had said, for most practical purposes, she had had little in the way of such customary amenities.	10
14	71	It would unprotestingly accept her pettinesses and abuses, which were not infrequent, would seek to attend to her wants, which were frequent, and, to the extent practical, would indulge her every whim.	10
17	200	Interestingly, for most practical purposes, he was not found acceptable by Kurii either, and became, in effect, an outcast on the steel world of his birth.	10
20	232	On the other hand, it seemed clear that this practical expediency, as sensible as it might seem, might not be congenial to either the Lady Bina or to he in whose charge I was.	10
26	225	"That is not practical," he said.	10
33	31	In the winter the Voltai is, for most practical purposes, impassable.	10
42	2	On the other hand, for most practical purposes, order had been restored in the Cave, and matters, with some exceptions, were much as they had been earlier, before the revolt.	10
42	56	With the Kurii, on the other hand, I thought it best to withdraw as soon as it was practical.	10
45	116	It was clear to me that it would not be practical for Tiresias, blind, to attack two armed Kurii, let alone across an expanse of relatively flat rock in daylight.	10

Book 32. (15 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	306	The typical collar was practical and informative, light and comfortable, and attractive.	10
8	387	Indeed, most Gorean mariners, when practical, like to keep in sight of land.	10
10	13	Tyrtaios would be a practical commander, whose expenditure of men and supplies would be rational, and judicious, and cold.	10
14	213	It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i...	10
14	269	But I had searched the camp, insofar as it was practical, and found no trace of a particular, attractive beast, even chained on her mat in one of the slave houses, not that I was interested in her, for she was no more than another course, or serving, of collar meat, though perhaps a rather nice mors...	10
15	465	Would not a variety of galleys be more practical? For what is so large a vessel required? It is much larger, many times larger, I am told, than even the largest of common round ships, or cargo vessels, which, too, are apparently very different from the long, low, knifelike vessels of war.	10
30	70	It would have been impractical to make a fire, but even had it been practical, we would not have done so.	10
41	347	No more than a quarter of a cup for each was practical.	10
42	18	I supposed we might have tried to chew through the rope, which was not, as far as I knew, cored with wire, but this did not seem practical.	10
43	494	And why should I not accompany him, my friend? It was no longer practical for him to return with the quarry, and, in fact, he had not sought the quarry itself, but the Panther Women to which the quarry, luckily, had led us.	10
43	495	Nor was it practical to return with the Panther Women either, for they were in the keeping of Genserich and his band.	10
43	812	"Is that practical?" I asked.	10
45	49	"I know little of sleen," I said, "but I do not think that would be practical.	10
46	127	But it was not practical for me to climb in this area.	10
48	86	It would not be practical for them to do so.	10

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	44	Had the encampment been one of an infantry, an isolated outpost, this exploitation of the element of surprise, and the precision of the ensuing encirclement, might have resulted, for most practical purposes, in a victory merging on wholesale extermination.	10
4	49	I must get him to the new camp as soon as it would be practical.	10
7	408	"And it is then that my plan will become practical".	10
12	115	* * * Whereas I had been willing, under the force of circumstances, recognizing treachery in high places, and the lack of practical alternatives, to conduct the cavalry as a rogue arm, aflight on behalf of Lord Temmu, I was unwilling to transform it into what would be in effect a brigade of bandits ...	10
13	181	Similarly, as a contract woman whose contract was held by so high-ranking an official as a daimyo, in this case Lord Nishida, she would have, for most practical purposes, most of the time, a complete liberty of movement within the holding.	10
15	41	In my crude way I found myself less rapt with delight than concerned with certain practical assessments, with, say, measuring distances, and calculating times.	10
17	28	"It seems likely," I said, "your noble ally, the barbarian, Tyrtaios, reached the castle of Lord Temmu astride a tarn, secretly, by night, and likely, as well, that my tarn, for such beasts are of great worth, if it were practical, would have been acquired.	10
17	98	The usual target, when practical, is the torso, on the left side.	10
35	57	There were also three heads, scarcely recognized as human heads, or even as heads, for they were burned beyond practical recognition, mounted on three of the cart's vertical posts, rather as on stakes.	10
44	72	It was not practical to turn back, and, had we done so, that, too, would surely have provoked attention, and, presumably, would have resulted in some sort of inquiry, the outcome of which would have been likely to have been our discovery and undoing.	10
45	204	It seems access to the palace may not be practical.	10
47	85	"If it should prove practical," I said, "quite possibly".	10
50	200	It is light in the hands, or paws, of a Kur, but it is not a practical weapon for a human.	10
61	5	Here it had been refitted, and was now prepared to essay the bold and dangerous, but now-proven-practical, trip again.	10

Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	130	But, then, what is a practical purpose? Is the pursuit of beauty, or pleasure, a practical purpose? Perhaps.	10
11	111	Doubtless music has many practical applications.	10
13	17	In a sense the tyrant is, for most practical purposes, a Ubar.	10
13	129	The senses of Goreans seem much alive, even in small things, and they are likely to employ color, sound, and scent even where there is no practical purpose to be served in doing so.	10
13	132	But then, I suppose, there are ends that might be well served even if there was no practical purpose in doing so.	10
13	133	Why not? One supposes that a scent in a pan of water, the tone of a flute, the color of a simple thing, like that of a spoon handle or the door of a shed, may serve an end that is very real, if not practical.	10
20	19	Such arrangements usually have, as well, the capacity to keep a slave in place, for example, to fasten her to a stanchion, say, by her tethered wrists behind her back, or to render her, for most practical purposes, incapable of movement, fastening her hand and foot.	10
26	17	Law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.	10
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.	10
61	521	For most practical purposes, where all women are free no woman is free, or, indeed, not free.	10
61	524	For example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance.	10
61	525	There would be a conceptual difference, of course, or a logically possible difference, but it would be of little practical moment.	10
63	54	All in all, however, there is, for most practical purposes, no postal service on Gor.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	857	All of these positions, both symbolic and practical, have certain things in common; for example, in all of them, the slave is presented as, and is understood as, both by herself and by others, a slave, and only a slave.	10
13	10	Obviously I, even if not hooded, even if not chained, even were it not for the preciousness of my collar to me, could not, in any practical sense, flee.	10
17	100	"Perhaps, for some reason, it might not be practical, or wise, to do so".	10
26	15	Such communities may approach or withdraw, scatter or regroup, in ways not practical for more sessile communities.	10
33	16	Rencers commonly stand in them and pole them, but this was not practical for Bruno of Torcadino.	10
37	156	And, normally, guardsmen, where practical, as here, are afoot.	10

Book 36. (9 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	137	"Why not, if practical?" I asked.	10
5	64	A judicious commander wishes to assure himself of victory, and that is best assured, where practical, by bringing an overwhelming force to bear".	10
18	4	"There are practical, familiar courses to Mytilene".	10
24	42	As ostraca, usually fragments of broken pottery, were less than practical in our present circumstances, we had resorted to the vote of two urns.	10
37	107	It was not practical without steps, a ramp, a crane structure, pulleys, and counterweights, or such, to add a fourth layer.	10
49	84	His victory on the beach would have been slight and, for most practical purposes, empty.	10
57	61	Thus, for most practical purposes, the grapnels, denied purchase, were useless.	10
58	101	"Would indeed that it were practical," I said.	10
62	33	He will have his ceremony, and receive his decoration, and then, to his dismay, be put to what amounts to exile, be consigned to practical banishment, be sent to be again Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".	10