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Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 39 I had no money with which to purchase a tarn but I reasoned my hiring price as a swordsman might be sufficient to purchase a mount.
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6 40 For that matter, though I did not seriously consider the possibility, being without a city, in effect an outlaw, I was entitled in the Gorean way of thinking to take the bird or its purchase price in any way I saw fit.
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9 31 * * * * At least this night, this rainy night, I would not sleep again in the fields, for, thanks to the puzzling gift of the hooded conspirator, I had the means to purchase lodging.
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9 83 "And I would like to purchase a tarn to continue my journey.
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21 264 Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being.
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25 37 "You see," she said, "my master has defeated you, as he knew he could, not by the sword but by the purchase of time.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 14 I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events ...
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2 2 It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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12 11 It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...
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7 89 Miss Cardwell was little different from thousands of lovely working girls in the great cities of Earth, perhaps more intelligent than many, perhaps prettier than most, but essentially the same, girls living alone or together in apartments, working in offices and studios and shops, struggling to earn...
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12 223 It was open and one could go in and purchase a bottle of paga if one cared to do so.
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21 38 Before leaving the wagons I had joined them briefly on their march, long enough to purchase my peddler's disguise and the pound or so of stones which was to complete it.
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26 523 "I am very pleased," I said, "that she is alive and well—and I gather that you were able to purchase her from Albrecht of the Kassars without difficulty".
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Book 5. (11 results) Assassin of Gor

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24 246 With the money remaining over from her purchase price, which was negligible, she, who had been of the Cloth Workers, could open a shop in Ar, purchase materials, and hire men of her caste to aid her in the work.
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4 35 It was with this man that Vella had been placed, her registration, papers and purchase having been arranged.
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5 497 Papers will be prepared on you and you will be transmitted to the House of Clark in Thentis, whence you will be taken by tarn caravan to Ar, where you will be sold privately, your purchase to be effected by the agents of the House of Cernus, under the instructions of Caprus".
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9 127 "Normally the agent of a Ubar who has been victorious in battle will purchase one, for his high officers, to be brought to the victory feast".
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12 104 This would swing some silver to Green surely, for men, though they have their factions, yet will purchase the tiles of the bird they feel has the best chance of winning.
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12 115 I did note that a young slave girl, however, perhaps about fifteen, with a coin given her by her master, did purchase a small candy from the little Hup.
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17 455 I assumed the agent of Priest-Kings, who would purchase the girls, might be eager to take them to the Sardar, or perhaps to Ko-ro-ba.
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18 310 He himself had arranged for an agent of Priest-Kings to purchase the girls.
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19 146 Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...
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19 447 Doubtless Elizabeth thought Samos the agent of Priest-Kings, sent to purchase them and carry them to safety and freedom.
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24 306 "Therefore, that Vella, and the others, because with her, not fall into the wrong hands, it was resolved to purchase them".
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 43 We could, tomorrow, brand the three girls, and purchase collars.
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10 219 I did not, however, in this early period, because of the cost, purchase cargoes of great value.
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10 278 I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free.
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10 307 I now had the means whereby I might purchase yet two more ships for my fleet.
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14 414 I saw that even the thought of that acquiescence to my command shook her to the core, but that she hoped, doubtless, by even the suggestion that she, so refined and high-born, might consider such an extraordinary concession, to shame me into a withdrawal of my command, and to purchase therewith dign...
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Book 7. (17 results) Captive of Gor

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13 1074 "Purchase me!" I had begged, in the dream, "Purchase me!" "No," he had said.
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1 53 I liked them better than those I could purchase.
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6 269 Surely someone would be found, if not here, in the next city, who spoke English, who could put me in contact with those from whom I might purchase passage in my return to Earth.
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7 17 He had already, at the fair, paid Haakon a deposit on this purchase, in the amount of fifty gold pieces.
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7 364 I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet.
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10 190 I could not conceive of this, that the bestowal of my favors, those of Elinor Brinton, would be insufficient to purchase anything which it might be within the power of a man to give.
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11 612 She had been a free woman; she was now a female slave, the ease of whose life and whose fortunes would now depend entirely on her capacity to be pleasing to those who might capture or purchase her, those who would own her.
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11 1245 We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignorant free women,...
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11 1417 He had rejected the purchase of all of us, and yet only I, as far as I knew, had been rejected in precisely that way.
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11 1419 I did not care that he did not buy me! Indeed, I did not want him to buy me! So he would not purchase me? What was that to Elinor Brinton? She was pleased! She did not want to belong to him! But I recalled that I had seen him looking at me, afterwards.
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11 1447 "Purchase me!" I begged.
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11 1448 "Purchase me!" "No," he said.
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12 162 Could that be? More likely, I supposed, he would have wished to recoup at least a part of his investment, her purchase price, and wanted to make a handful of coins on her.
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12 705 Targo, a rational man, and a brilliant slaver, had chosen to purchase his own life, and that of his men, and the safety of his gold, by the flight of the slave girls.
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13 129 I do not think I could very well purchase passage, either.
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14 522 If she proves sufficiently skilled, and zealously satisfactory, he may arrange for her purchase.
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17 352 No, Rask of Treve would not purchase his life for the price I had agreed to pay, but the decision was not his, but mine, mine, and I loved him, and could not let him die! "Do not stain my honor," he had said.
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Book 8. (14 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 363 I tossed him the pouch of gold, from which I had drawn the coins to purchase his freedom, and the arrogant, slender, red-silked girl for him, to be his slave.
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2 356 I was not interested in the purchase of men, but I was interested in whatever information I might be able to gather from panther girls.
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3 117 This very afternoon I wished to begin to purchase supplies.
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3 138 We would use part of the proceeds from their sale to purchase our lunch.
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3 440 It was not long past noon, and there would be time, later, to begin the purchase of supplies.
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4 391 We could begin the purchase of supplies in the morning.
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7 58 I had given Arn no definite answer on his request to purchase Tina, his object in coming to my camp.
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9 137 "In it," said Verna, "she begged that he purchase her freedom".
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10 125 Talena, by the permissions of Verna, and by way of Mira, Verna's messenger, with whom I dealt, sued for her purchase, such not being the act of a free woman".
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11 365 I pretended to purchase several rolls.
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12 163 And, in the morning, cowering before him, she must realize that he, willing to put forth some coins, might choose to purchase her for his own.
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14 53 Doubtless, too, near one of the exchange points, they would attempt to locate and seize, or purchase, Talena, the former daughter of Marlenus of Ar.
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15 650 "I will purchase my passage back to Earth!" "What have you to offer?" I asked.
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22 596 She would, however, I had little doubt, send the two women who guarded Talena to his camp north of Laura, with their prisoner, to see if he, as a free man merely, might be interested in the purchase of a slave.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 308 "In the forest," I said, "it is my understanding that you sued for your freedom, begging in a missive that your father purchase you".
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10 317 The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 139 I visited one of the metal workers, to purchase a collar for my prize.
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2 492 "I wish," I said, "to board her, and purchase her some training".
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2 618 Surely few would care to purchase water where it lay free at hand.
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5 681 Only too obviously was she interested in him making a purchase of her.
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5 768 He had wished to send men to Lydius to purchase her, and return her to Port Kar, that she might be, under his direction, thrown to urts in the canals.
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13 287 Love on Gor does not purchase a girl lenience; it does not mitigate her bondage, nor compromise her servitude, but rather renders it the more complete, the more helpless and abject.
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26 302 "It did seem convenient to me, at that time," I said, "to purchase you, to keep you as a slave".
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Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 1252 How I had wanted Tup Ladletender to purchase me, to take me from the labors of the fields.
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12 32 There had been twenty-seven girls in Stones of Turmus before my purchase.
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12 33 Accordingly, upon my purchase, I became the twenty-eighth girl.
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14 312 "Failing to please him more than I, failing to interest him in your purchase," she said, "it is your intention to tell him who I was".
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20 486 "Purchase a cup of paga, Master," I said, "and have me with its price".
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28 408 "Too," said he, "I think you dared to protest this evening my purchase of a girl".
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Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 542 A golden tarn disk would purchase a trained war tarn, or several women.
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3 456 He was considering her purchase.
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3 840 The four Earth girls, though they could not speak Gorean, watched, horrified, the enactment of a common Gorean episode, the attempt on the part of a slave to interest masters in her purchase.
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3 1024 On the other hand, the proximity of female flesh to the buyer can in itself, of course, be a powerful inducement to her purchase.
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4 685 "Perhaps he did not wish to be identified as he who had made the purchase," I said, "for then he might be traced by virtue of your recollection of the transaction".
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6 641 Apparently she had stood the purchase price.
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10 62 "I was voyaging upstream on the Laurius," he said, "to see if panther girls had caught any new slave girls, whom I might purchase from them for arrow points and candy, for use in the tavern as paga sluts.
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15 471 The price obtained on one, of course, can be applied to the purchase of the next.
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15 683 "A common arrangement, however, is to charge a prospective buyer, if he wishes it, a rent fee, which fee may then be, should he want the girl, applied to her purchase price".
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23 374 "A splendid purchase," said Ram, congratulating Imnak.
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23 376 "Another splendid purchase," said Ram.
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38 160 She would be a splendid purchase for a competent master.
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38 163 One does not really know the value of a purchase until she is chained at your slave ring.
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38 164 But he who eventually acquired lovely Audrey, I did not doubt, would be well satisfied with his purchase.
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Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

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8 74 What if the beggar had made a serious purchase of the girl on behalf of the tavern keeper? What if she were merely being delivered here to be trained as a mere paga girl? I glanced around.
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11 254 Apparently they did not regard him as a likely fellow to be used in the purchase of stolen notes on speculation, to be resold later to their rightful owner.
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16 49 His father had returned some five years later to purchase his mother.
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23 25 Though they had been bought to be the serving slaves of a woman I had little doubt that their purchase had been effected by a male agent.
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27 20 "With what will you purchase them?" I asked.
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34 965 I did not see fit to sell her that some ubarates had been sold to purchase a single slave.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 117 "I wish to purchase veil pins at the shop of Publius.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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10 129 "You must, too, go out and purchase me clothing," she said.
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24 658 She, obviously, has nothing to say about her purchase.
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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18 146 I would leave the house and, at a paga tavern, purchase supper.
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20 403 "He intends to purchase fighting slaves," said Miles, "and then free them, and organize matches among free men.
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20 1362 "I shall endeavor to be such that master will find the purchase of others girls unnecessary," she said.
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Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

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7 41 Patronize the house of Ram Seibar! Free drinks! No purchase necessary!" I felt a small tugging at my sleeve, and then felt my arm delicately held.
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8 135 You are then invited to reconsider with an eye for prospective purchase the trinkets and baubles strewn forth for your delectation upon our side blocks".
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8 648 Doubtless they had been supplied by their former masters, probably at the time of the transactions effecting their purchase.
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8 832 The purchase of the two tavern girls, further, I had surmised, was intimately connected with this interest.
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8 1124 He had not come to the sales barn, apparently, knowing exactly how many girls he would purchase.
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13 172 "The results of your body's testing, shortly after your purchase, were made known to me by Grunt, your master".
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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28 105 Free women sometimes buy hair for wigs or falls, and, although the hair they purchase is always certified as coming only from free women, there is little doubt that it is often taken from female slaves.
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35 202 A man who fails to attain a vision, or who cannot obtain a suitable dream, may purchase one from another, who is more fortunate, one who will share his vision or dream with him, or sell him one he does not need.
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37 107 To give you an idea of the value of Herlits, in some places two may be exchanged for a kaiila; in other places, it takes three to five to purchase a kaiila.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 30 Too, documents were found recording the purchase of quantities of slave hair, at suitable prices, some even within the city of Corcyrus itself.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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6 167 "I had to sell my golden courtesan to purchase one," said Boots.
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7 108 What he feared, of course, particularly since he did not know me, is the trick of two friends cooperating in the purchase of a slave.
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7 413 I had not seen fit to purchase a shield or spear, or even a bow, with sheaf arrows.
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12 520 I must soon, in the performances, I feared, hood the Lady Yanina, or perhaps, better, sell the wench to someone bound in another direction, and replace her altogether with another girl, presumably a slave, whom I might purchase somewhere, a girl it would be safer to take into Brundisium, one not fro...
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12 531 I could see Boots returning now, from a nearby village, to which he had gone to purchase some food and advertise our show.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 406 Too, with it, or its residue, she might be able to make her way to a distant village, far from the trekking of armies, where she could use it as a bride price, using it, in effect, to purchase herself a companion, a good fellow who could care for herself and her child.
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11 46 'Would you care to purchase a poem?' 'Yes!' cried I.
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15 412 "Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city.
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21 241 In it, on a wholesale or retail basis, one may purchase slaves.
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21 247 Too, of course, in such a district, one may purchase such articles as appropriate cosmetics for slaves, suitable simple but attractive jewelry, fit for slaves, in particular, earrings which, in Gorean eyes, so fasten a woman's degradation helplessly upon her, appropriate perfumes, slave silk, and su...
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Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 76 I was sure she would prove a marvelous purchase for a man.
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10 159 He had been coming back from some place called Torcadino, or near Torcadino, where he had gone, either there, or in its vicinity, to purchase cheap girls for his tavern.
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11 405 "Now," said Hendow, "we come to the more cautious buyers, those who would like to purchase early ostraka, but would appreciate a bit of reassurance.
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11 443 "What do you think of her?" "I would purchase an ostrakon, myself, or several," said Mirus, "but if I, an employee of the tavern, were to win, you would all, would you not, every one of you, suspect collusion and duplicity?" "Yes," said a fellow.
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11 751 Perhaps she wished him to purchase her.
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16 100 It would be more than enough to purchase her passage from Brundisium.
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16 139 If he from whom she had intended to purchase tarn passage had not seen the collar, nor, of course, her brand, nor her tunic, or such, and, theoretically, at least, did not know she was a slave, he would not be held legally responsible for having sold her passage.
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20 335 It did not seem to me important to tell him that Tupita had been attempting to escape, using my sales price to purchase passage from Brundisium.
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29 309 "As you can imagine it would be difficult for them to enter a town, go to the market and purchase goods".
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34 143 Thus, if he wants her, it would not be difficult for him to purchase her.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 428 Perhaps, in time, they would even be released, in two or three years perhaps, when it was thought they had earned out several times their purchase cost, and if it were thought they had been exemplary prisoners, hard-working and suitably docile.
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8 815 If she were still his free companion, it seemed she would now be kept in the modality of bondage, but perhaps she was now only his former free companion, and had been reduced to actual bondage, now being subject to purchase by anyone.
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11 149 "Anyone's gold can purchase your steel," he said.
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15 537 "But if your thoughts in this matter had been correct," I said, "it might have been too bad, might it not, for many of the other women of Ar's Station, women less fortunate, less rich, than you, who lacked the means wherewith to purchase their lives?" "That could not be my concern," she said, angril...
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17 677 She had intended to use them to bargain for her life with Cosians, begging to purchase it from them, even at the frightful cost of Gorean bondage.
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24 824 "But sometimes one can purchase them back, by deeds, in a new form".
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 78 I had had Ephialtes, the sutler, purchase her in the morning.
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3 326 "Perhaps you wish to purchase something?" I asked.
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3 526 "What did they purchase from you?" he asked.
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14 134 Her gold could purchase information as well as that of Cos.
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39 150 "Of course not!" "Some free women," I said, "purchase it secretly, and wear it in the privacy of their own compartments, sometimes weeping with need and sleeping at the foot of their own bed".
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Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 105 "Would you like to purchase a yellow ostrakon?" asked a fellow.
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3 109 Were his offer genuine, I would indeed be eager to purchase such an object.
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3 392 Her dance, thusly, was rather like the "Buy me, Master" behavior of a girl on a chain, the "slaver's necklace," or in a market, the sort of behavior in which she begs purchase.
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3 413 One would not wish to purchase her, of course, because she might constitute an encumbrance.
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11 145 "It seems that some good fellows of Cos, esteemed mercenaries, in the service of her Ubar, with all good will and innocence, entered this shop, to purchase wares for loved ones, and were treacherously set upon by assailants, some twenty in number".
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19 848 They are secretly assessed and arrangements are made for their purchase and delivery.
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22 144 Perhaps they could even arrange for the purchase of one of them, not to free her, of course, for it is said that only a fool frees a slave girl, but to take her home and keep her for themselves.
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27 39 "For so little," I said, "one could purchase little more than the services of a new slave for an evening in a paga tavern, one still striving desperately to learn how to be pleasing".
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27 1033 "Sometimes," she said, "I would purchase a man's slave and use her as a serving slave.
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Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

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1 57 Surely no purchase could be gained there.
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12 113 What was I doing here? Why had I been purchased, and by men who, it seemed, seldom bothered to purchase women, preferring, it seemed, to acquire them in other manners? Why did they wish a girl here who was ignorant, or muchly so? I did not want to be here.
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12 347 And I gave nothing! One lesser known begged me to attend a rendezvous in a jeweler's shop, one which had but recently opened its doors in the city, that I might there pick for myself the finest of a dozen ruby necklaces, which he would then purchase for me.
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13 279 She slipped partly through the opening, and then scrambled back within the cage, clinging to the bars, her feet trying to find some purchase there.
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13 319 Its forepaws fought for purchase at the cage, but the claws scratched futilely on the dangling solid gate, forcing it back on its hinges.
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24 901 I almost wished that the Lady Constanzia was a slave, and had a private master, that the scarlet-clad figure might have approached her master with the intent of negotiating her purchase.
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24 902 But perhaps his funds, even in such a case, would not have sufficed for her purchase? Perhaps his funds, those still at his disposal, were required for the discharge of his business here? And he would not steal her, it seemed.
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28 89 "There was the cashing of letters of credit in Besnit, from the house of William, in Harfax, letters the House of William had drawn on the street of coins in Brundisium, to be used in the purchase of ingots in Esalinus, these to be melted down in Besnit and there, in Besnit, to be formed into the wa...
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34 153 But, alas, some men, I fear, purchase girls largely for self-regarding, social reasons, for example, to impress others with their wealth, good fortune, or taste.
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34 154 But then, too, on Earth, do not some men buy a certain car, or a certain house, or a certain painting, and such, largely to impress others? Too, on Earth some men will, in effect, purchase wives, so to speak, though the "exchange of coin" is less obvious.
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34 157 On Earth, it is the woman who sells herself and, accordingly, keeps her own purchase price, so to speak.
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37 1032 His hands clutched at the air as though he might gain purchase there to drag himself to safety.
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46 630 It would be as though I might be a new purchase, naked from a sales barn, being fetched back to a domicile, the master's cloak, for want of something better, cast over me.
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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16 38 She had not dared to purchase, let alone wear, a subtle, rustling silken gown, or one of those tiny, revealing short gowns, one of those scandalous little things presumably eschewed even by prostitutes, who might wish to have a bit of respect from their clients, the sort of garment in which a master...
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17 144 "I do not wish to purchase one," said the man.
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22 294 She doubted that men would wish to purchase such things.
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26 281 But we must remember that the feelings of Selius Arconious toward his recent purchase were rather ambivalent.
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26 672 "It was clever of you to publicly purchase this slave, with Cosian gold," said one of the men about, indicating Ellen, who remained immobile, tense.
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26 724 "Did you purchase me," she asked, "as only part of a plan?" "Do you think you are important?" he asked.
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26 1467 "To save your worthless hide? To ingratiate yourself with me? To practice your wiles, to ensnare me with pleasure, to purchase an easier life, to avoid beatings and chainings?" "I do not know," wept Ellen.
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30 132 She wondered if, one day, he might purchase a lamp of love, and love furs.
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Book 28. (14 results) Kur of Gor

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1 484 Her shapely legs moved, sought purchase.
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18 269 The first beast leaped upward, gained a purchase on the slope, and joined Cabot on his narrow ledge, until it was thrust back, over the edge, bloodied, with the stick, to slide to the foot of the slope again.
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21 79 "Would you like me to purchase you a treat?" "No," said Cabot.
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21 266 May I purchase you a treat?" "No," said Cabot.
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24 197 "I think, too," said Grendel, "that that is best, for if you are not with us, as though we were conspirators, or in league, I may purchase her life".
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24 270 She knew, as well as he, that her innocence, such as it was, might well be insufficient to purchase her life.
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24 272 Yes, thought Cabot, she has a better way to purchase her life! And she is aware of it! "I wish you well," said Grendel, a common Gorean farewell.
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26 39 She does not know writing, does she?" "When Grendel is taken," said Cabot, "as I think must soon occur, if it has not already come about, she will attempt to purchase her life by betraying his remarks".
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36 213 "It is true that slaves commonly sell for less than a kaiila," he said, "and, too, usually, for the price of a tarn one might purchase twenty or more slaves, even of great beauty".
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46 167 The flat caps, on the other hand, provided no such purchase.
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47 28 The sensation was much like lying on a turning disk, from which one might be thrown free, but the consequence of a lost purchase here was not a slipping from the disk to the side, but rather analogous to a plunge from a cliff.
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47 62 The canvas wings sought their purchase in the world's atmosphere, thrusting against it, cleaving it, as they neared.
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77 145 Killer humans, successful in the arena, were awarded coins, with which they might purchase women, commonly penned naked within their view, prizes awaiting the victorious.
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77 149 The female, of course, had no choice as to who might purchase them, no more than other slaves.
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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12 52 Any purchase of a considerable number of tarns from the cots would surely attract attention".
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17 113 Lord Nishida, in his attempts to conceal his project, or to at least reduce a cognition of its extent, had wished to avoid any unusually large purchase of domestic tarns.
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22 275 It is not unusual, too, when a slave is introduced into a house, no matter what her purchase price may have been, that she will be bound and whipped, this to let her know that in that house she is truly a slave, and no more than a slave.
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22 722 I decided that it had not been a mistake to purchase her for him.
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23 193 This lesson a girl can learn in a single night, perhaps even within an Ahn or two of her purchase.
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25 58 Is not the beautiful woman, curled at one's feet, avid to learn the secrets of a house, petulant and pouting if denied, ideally suited to gather the flowers of intelligence? Is it not a natural, and simple, and innocent thing to purchase one of their smiles, at so small a cost as an expression, an u...
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26 156 Such wealth, if any man might possess it, might purchase a fleet, a city.
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32 28 There were many markets in which even one of those coins might purchase a tarn, five kaiila, ten lovely slaves.
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38 234 Perhaps Lord Nishida might purchase high favor by means of such a gift, a favor which might possibly exceed even that of a shogun's cousin.
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43 142 "We are greatly honored," said Lord Nishida, "that so high a personage, drawn from so remarkable a background, whose sword might purchase gold in a dozen cities, would present himself for our service".
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Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 245 The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase.
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3 711 I thought I might reach Torcadino, from whence I might purchase wagon passage to Brundisium, Besnit, Harfax, or Market of Semris.
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5 255 Doubtless he understands that, and thus tries to purchase his worthless life, counting on my honor.
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5 261 "But," said Seremides, "if he is to crawl amongst us, as the slithering ost, unnoticed but deadly, tiny and poisonous, must he not in some way purchase his passage?" "Yes," said more than one man.
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8 98 In the water, it can be difficult, hands slipping, no purchase gained, to draw oneself back on the ice.
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8 271 "For the bounty on your head, pretty kajira," I said, "one might purchase a galley, and a dozen slaves whose beauty would shame yours, as yours, such as it is, might shame that of tarsk sow".
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8 492 Might it not purchase a galley, and several slaves, of high quality? But she had thought he was after greater game, of some sort.
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12 654 "If she were a free woman," said the tarnsman, "I suspect she would purchase a collar, and kneel before you, begging you to make her your slave".
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12 725 The reward for her return to Ar was considerable, amounting to a dozen wealths, which might purchase a city or hire a hundred free companies.
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14 315 I could obtain no purchase.
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17 110 Why risk the theft of a slave when one might purchase one, perhaps better, at the local auction house? Prices are sometimes depressed, too, particularly in the fall and winter.
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18 103 It might purchase a galley, several slaves".
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19 27 Many are red-silked within an Ahn of their purchase.
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19 36 They then are desperately needful on the block, piteously supplicatory of purchase.
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25 87 A warrior might remove the head of a Peasant, to try the quality and stroke of a sword before its purchase.
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33 186 I could, of course, afford the tarsk-bit which, in a low tavern, such as The Sea Sleen, might purchase a cup of paga, accompanying which, if I chose, might be her use.
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36 23 This boast of Demetrion, on behalf of shapely, quality merchandise available in Brundisium, brought to my mind, naturally enough, a particular slave, one whom I would have liked to purchase, but could not afford.
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37 1542 For example, she had had no name given her in The Sea Sleen, and had been purchased by Callias as a nameless slave, much as one might purchase any nameless animal.
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Book 31. (17 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 426 "Only if it can purchase steel," she said.
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5 389 "Then I cannot use them to purchase my release, my freedom," I said.
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6 104 I stole a glance at he who seemed to have completed the purchase, in which I was an item.
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8 235 What is so special about their terrified, groveling rival, licking and kissing at her master's feet, with her marked thigh, and band-encircled throat? What could she, a slave, an animal, possibly have, or offer, that might begin to compete with the accorded favor of a free woman, standing on her dig...
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8 293 Rich men, to whom money is of less interest than what it might purchase, sometimes buy in-house, putting out three or four times what a girl might bring in the open market.
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8 1017 Perhaps the fellow had requested, or been granted, such a favor, that he would purchase the former Lady Persinna, to her humiliation, in a low market, for a handful of coins.
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8 1445 Most patrons purchase the basic ostrakon.
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10 245 I had been purchased, obviously, at least in part, for the work of a female slave, that I might labor on behalf of my mistress, keep the domicile, clean and launder, purchase, prepare, and cook food, as I might, fetch and carry, in particular bringing water from the fountains, run errands, indulge h...
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10 285 It had been some weeks now since my purchase from the Tarsk Market.
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10 356 "I could then purchase another girl, perhaps again at the Tarsk Market, one more attractive," she said.
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10 586 "This would purchase ten or more of you," she said, "even if you were a silver-tarsk girl".
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10 905 Indeed, I will give you two tarsk-bits and you may later purchase some larmas which we may press for breakfast".
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16 39 "You will remember," she said, "that I was concerned, even at your purchase, with your attractiveness to men".
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16 150 And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
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18 1073 How was it that he might think so of me? Ela, I could not speak! Then I recalled that Astrinax, now with the caravan, long ago, had arranged my purchase from Menon, on behalf of the gambling house.
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21 96 The rent fee, incidentally, is often applied to the purchase fee.
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49 469 "And in the taverns," said Lord Grendel, "a tarsk-bit will usually purchase a goblet of paga, and, if the customer wishes, the use of a paga girl.
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Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 91 I wanted to throw myself to my belly, and reach through the bars, and touch him, and beg him to purchase me.
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14 118 "What is my fee intended to purchase?" I asked.
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16 69 Why did I purchase her? First, she was beautiful, very much so.
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37 43 I have heard that free women, if they have a serving slave, or slaves, often purchase pretty ones, ones of a sort they particularly hate, in this way denying such a slave a master, which gratifies the free woman, and denying a master the slave, which, I suppose, gratifies her as well.
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37 44 It is also rumored that some free women purchase beautiful slaves in order to attract men to themselves, the fellow hoping to see more of the slave.
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43 111 "But she was quite pleased when she learned the reason for her purchase, and eagerly led us in our quest to intercept the now-so-called 'band of Darla', which had been hired to conduct its secret reconnaissance in the northern forests.
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48 28 I was rightless goods, merchandise, a slight, collared, curvaceous beast, subject to purchase and sale, and knew myself such! But I was no ordinary slave.
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49 194 "Is that why one slave sells for more than another, why one slave's price might purchase a ship, and another a wooden bowl and spoons, why one slave is bartered for a city, and another for a she-tarsk, why one girl is purchased to be chained at the foot of a Ubar's throne and another to carry water ...
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Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

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9 53 One might, in such a moment, be able to seize and carry away, even concealed in one's garments, enough to purchase a tavern or farm.
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9 94 On the other hand, in this situation, small purchase would be obtained.
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18 60 "Before the Twentieth Ahn," I said, "reach Ichiro, return to the camp, purchase time".
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24 146 What if the cavalry should intervene, on behalf of the house of Temmu?" "Two golden chains," he said, "may perhaps purchase its quiescence".
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25 281 She had obeyed as immediately and unquestioningly as a new purchase, entered into the domicile of her master.
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41 69 "I made inquiries," said Haruki, "pretending that I was inquiring for an officer, what might be the arrangements for the inspection and purchase of slaves".
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41 71 "In only three of the four tents are slaves available for public purchase," he said.
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61 244 The bounty on Talena herself, who had been mysteriously removed from Ar, during the restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, was a fortune, such that it might purchase a city, ten thousand tarn disks of gold, each of double weight.
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61 425 Given the higher rank and the usual circumspection of Lord Okimoto, on which I had counted, I had managed to halt their march, at least temporarily, and purchase some days of truce, while messages were being exchanged between their road camp and the distant holding of the northern shogun.
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61 601 But there are vendors from the local villages, at the end of the wharf, and I wish to purchase small articles".
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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6 338 After your purchase, cosmetics, enhancements, and such, as with clothing, will be at the discretion of the master.
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14 7 I knew none of those served other than my master, and I had scarcely seen him, since having been presented before him, tunicked, after my purchase.
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26 202 "Surely," I said, "those of the black caste, as others, purchase goods".
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28 25 Had Tyrtaios been truly blind, and had bought me, unable to ascertain the quality of his purchase, he might, indeed, have been duped.
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36 37 A gold tarsk is usually valued at ten silver tarsks, and a gold tarn, in today's market, might well purchase two draft tarns, a racing tarn or a war tarn".
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64 10 There were few services, laundering, cleaning, and such, that one could not purchase.
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64 12 One could also purchase varieties of packaged foods that might be conveniently prepared.
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67 31 "We have a wagon to be bargained for, tharlarion to purchase".
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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15 177 Should such wealth not suffice to purchase cities? At least it might form fleets and raise armies.
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25 73 Rather I arranged, through a brigand, Decius of Venna, to steal Luta after her purchase".
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31 42 Too, several times before my purchase, I later learned, he had frequented the Gambles and familiarized himself with the bouts of several contestants, though then refraining from betting, perhaps to avoid calling attention to himself.
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33 657 By its means I obtained purchase, something anchored in terms of which I could press down and lift myself, inch by inch, upward, free of the grip of the sand.
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40 332 It did not seem that her beauty had managed to purchase her an exemption from the common chores of slaves.
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47 304 Florian arranged for the purchase of Adraste, and Miles was stationed in the house of Anesidemus itself, to protect her".
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Book 36. (13 results) Avengers of Gor

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4 156 Its cost, it was claimed by some, might purchase a city.
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6 116 I supposed she feared that I, displeased, might purchase her, and then sell her to a free woman.
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17 1 I Make a Purchase; I Examine my New Property; I Make Use of my New Property "Here," said my agent, "is the slave".
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17 43 It pleases one to have obtained a good purchase.
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17 282 "You wish then to purchase protection for your party," she said.
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17 383 "That was why the purchase was made.
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29 167 Owned and dominated, possessed and commanded, now a mere property, subject to purchase, bargaining, and sale, she finds herself as she should be, and wants to be.
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53 211 "Let it be the price by means of which you purchase your lives," came back.
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57 8 If the grapnel is denied purchase, its utility to the enemy is nullified.
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57 51 A grapnel is ineffective without purchase.
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57 60 The ideal points of purchase for grapnels, the likely targets of their application, had been partially sawed through, and, given the stress imposed by the straining ropes, these points, mostly railings, broke loose.
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57 61 Thus, for most practical purposes, the grapnels, denied purchase, were useless.
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57 163 Given the movement of the decks, and our changes to the starboard side of the Tesephone, minimizing or eliminating points of purchase, the passage between ships was precarious.
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