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Purpose

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	223	"But for what end, to what purpose?" I demanded.	10
2	224	"Each perhaps for a different end, for each perhaps a different purpose," he said.	10
8	32	The real purpose of the "sacrifice to the Priest-Kings" was probably to remove possible claimants to the throne of Ar and thereby strengthen their own political position.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	17	The purpose, incidentally, of the brief garment of the female slave is not simply to mark out the girl in bondage but, in exposing her charms, to make her, rather than her free sister, the favored object of raids on the part of roving tarnsmen.	10

Book 3. (16 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	157	I myself would not understand the intricate processes involved in the machine of which she spoke but the purpose of the machine and the theoretical principles that facilitated its purpose were reasonably clear.	10
2	39	As I listened it occurred to me that the purpose of the bar might not be simply to inform the men of the fair that the Sardar had been entered but to inform the Priest-Kings as well.	10
4	78	I now understood the purpose of the tiled circle which surrounded the throne.	10
10	9	Apparently hearing is not of great importance, however, to them, considering the small number of hairs modified for this purpose.	10
10	15	For example, does a Priest-King have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by Priest-Kings, some of w...	10
12	31	"Was he brought to the tunnels for some purpose?" "I came of my own accord," I avowed.	10
12	33	"For what purpose was he brought to the tunnels?" asked Sarm.	10
12	34	"The purpose is known to the Mother," said Misk.	10
16	8	"It is for that purpose that you were brought here," said Misk.	10
16	109	"Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand".	10
18	4	I gathered that the Muls to whom I spoke, who seemed well enough disposed towards me, simply did not know what was meant, in spite of the fact that several of them had been bred in the Nest, in the breeding cases located in certain special vivaria set aside for the purpose.	10
18	173	"It was for that purpose I brought you to the Nest".	10
20	56	Now I knew the purpose of the device in the room—why it was there and what it did—but why had Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta brought me here? A panel to the side slid open and two plastic-clad Muls entered.	10
25	123	Such a complex might ideally serve my purpose of the moment.	10
31	158	"It has served its purpose".	10
33	90	Their codes forbade them to kill but I knew that they hired men of other castes for this purpose.	10

Book 4. (14 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	134	Actually I was later to learn that the jeweled belt is worn to incite envy and accrue enemies; its purpose is to encourage attack, that the owner may try the skill of his weapons, that he need not tire himself seeking for foes.	10
2	135	I knew, though, from the belt, though I first misread its purpose, that the owner was of the Paravaci, the Rich People, richest of the wagon dwellers.	10
2	174	The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...	10
5	16	The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe...	10
6	63	But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by Priest-Kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on th...	10
6	75	It then occurred to me that it might have been for just this purpose that she had been sent to the Tuchuks, to single out the one man from among all the thousands with the wagons who could understand her and speak with her, thus identifying and marking him.	10
7	117	Looking at him she suddenly had the feeling, a strange one, that this man, in some circumstances and for some purpose or another, had assessed and judged many women.	10
7	226	I knew that, as far as the interrogation was concerned, she had served her purpose.	10
8	462	Albrecht and Conrad had come for a simple purpose, to best a Tuchuk and, in the process, pick up a girl or two; Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, was the only one we had on hand.	10
15	42	Was it not for this purpose that I had come to the Wagon Peoples? I cursed the fact that I had waited so long—even to the time of the Omen Taking—for thereby had I lost the opportunity to try for the sphere myself in the wagon of Kutaituchik.	10
15	90	Once he pounded the rug on the polished floor in front of him and cried out angrily, as though to remind himself of some significant and inalterable fact, "She is Turian! Turian!" The work of the wagon was done by Tuka and another girl, whom Kamchak hired for the purpose.	10
16	33	"The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope".	10
22	6	The Ubar, and Kamras, his highest officer, had fallen captive almost immediately, each to a Hundred set that purpose.	10
26	299	It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur...	10

Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	292	On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...	10
4	230	During this time, since Elizabeth was nominally of the staff of Caprus, we could surely find time to be about our work, for which purpose we had arranged to enter the House of Cernus.	10
5	635	Upon reflection, it did seem to me there might be some purpose in Elizabeth's having her own knot, apart from her delight in inventing and utilizing one.	10
11	348	"From the time you were first anesthetized and hooded," said Flaminius, "you had but one purpose in life—to give pleasure to men".	10
18	491	"It was for that purpose he thought himself sent to Ko-ro-ba.	10
19	20	The purpose of the blocks, which are used where the streets are curbed, is to provide stepping stones for crossing the street when there have been heavy rains.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	45	Exotics may be bred for almost any purpose, and some of these purposes, unfortunately, seem to be little more than to produce quaint or unusual specimens.	10
4	134	"What is the purpose of the council?" I asked.	10
5	33	It was the brand of a male silk slave, a male pleasure slave, one whose purpose in life is to serve, and give exquisite, lengthy, intimate pleasures, upon demand, to women.	10
11	106	Many of these basins, near which, in red-painted wooden boxes, are stored large numbers of folded leather buckets, are expressly for the purpose of providing a means for fighting fires.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	139	Indeed, I suspect that the very cords which had been used for that purpose, and in which I had found myself so helpless, may have been exactly such, some lengths of Gorean binding fiber.	10
11	400	Here one might find oneself, particularly if one is a slave, simply seized and put to pleasure, and find oneself being abruptly, insolently used, rudely, humiliatingly, for the purpose of extinguishing the flames one had unwisely ignited.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	401	They were not my purpose in coming to the exchange point, but I did not wish to leave them at the mercy of the panther girls.	10
6	295	She was only kept alive for one purpose, to serve such men, and be pleasing to them.	10
8	65	Its purpose was only to hold the gate against the pushings and shoulderings of animals.	10
13	222	"For what purpose do they proceed to the exchange point?" I asked.	10
15	246	It, too, had now served its purpose.	10
18	54	No one, after I had felled the first who had dared to lift his sword to such a purpose, had dared to threaten a slave.	10
19	326	"For what purpose have you come here?" "Primarily," I said, "to obtain the release of slaves.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	148	It was an all-purpose sail, hung straight from a spar of needle wood.	10
3	175	But they are satisfactory for their purpose.	10
9	147	The beating had been, though light, quite adequate to its purpose, which was to teach her, a captive, the whip.	10
9	446	It's purpose is only to warm you for the second".	10
10	81	Those farmers who do not attend the Thing, being the sole workers on their farms, must, nonetheless, maintain the regulation armament; once annually it is to be presented before a Jarl's officer, who, for this purpose, visits various districts.	10
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	353	"What purpose would such a journey serve for a Kur?" I asked.	10
1	367	"What was your purpose?" I asked it.	10
10	353	You brought her for a purpose.	10
26	462	The strap or coiled rope he carries is used less often to hasten, in a humiliating fashion, a girl who might otherwise dally on the way to discipline, though it may serve this purpose, than it is to drive other girls from her.	10
26	704	When a slave is introduced into a new house, often carried over the threshold bound and naked, she is commonly tied and whipped; the purpose of this is to leave her in no doubt as to what she is in the new domicile; in this way she is assisted in understanding that within the new walls, in the new c...	10

Book 11. (17 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	754	I could neither explain nor understand my nature or purpose, if any, on this world.	10
2	756	Too, it would have been pointless to have questioned me so closely; too, why, if I had been brought to this world for an obvious purpose of men, say, for my beauty, had the men prepared, in their anger, to end my life? Surely it must have been obvious to them that I was eager to do anything they wan...	10
3	153	There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...	10
3	212	I did not understand the purpose for which the iron was being heated.	10
4	169	It must be perfect for its purpose.	10
4	170	Its purpose may be to humiliate or brazenly and publicly display the girl, to discipline her, to keep her humble, to remind her that she is nothing, only a wench in bondage; it may be to reveal her beauty, of which he is proud, for the eyes of all, or for his own pleasure and that of his peers; it m...	10
4	620	That is the purpose of the slave girl, to please and serve men.	10
4	1131	It is often used on this world for that purpose.	10
7	872	Chanda's hands were now bound tightly behind her back, the wrist tether's handle loop having been used for this purpose.	10
8	44	It was, accordingly, an all-purpose slave cage.	10
11	234	Its purpose was no more than to intimidate me.	10
12	180	"For what purpose," inquired Borchoff, "were you attempting to ascertain the nature of our defenses?" "It has slipped my mind," said the man.	10
13	18	I do not know if he did it on purpose or not.	10
13	60	I had been examined medically, in detail, and had had administered to me, while I lay bound, helplessly, a series of painful shots, the purpose of which I did not understand.	10
13	402	Their purpose was to please the customers of their master.	10
22	358	The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to well fulfill it...	10
22	364	The female slave is true to her deepest nature; she is exquisitely and vulnerably feminine; she is the most feminine of women; her purpose, destiny and meaning is love; she exists for love.	10

Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	224	Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a...	10
4	239	The purpose of the Center Defense is to draw the yellow Spearman from the center.	10
8	222	When they had served their purpose, they would be made slaves.	10
12	33	Even the leather or bondage strings at their throats were not necessary for that purpose.	10
15	918	"Do not think of the collar as a simple piece of jewelry," I said, "though it can serve that purpose.	10
15	990	There are rent slaves, who may be rented to anyone for any purpose, short of their injury or mutilation, unless compensation be rendered to the master.	10
22	35	"You did that on purpose," I said.	10
35	455	After she has served her purpose, there is always the collar, the market.	10

Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	749	I think the purpose of the whipping had been little more than to teach her what the whip could feel like.	10
4	891	This little wench though, now locked in my collar, I thought would serve the purpose well.	10
5	105	"What is the common purpose of a collar?" "The collar has four common purposes, Master," she said.	10
5	139	The purpose of such a tie is to hold the slave, not choke her.	10
27	194	But, why? For what purpose have they been brought here? They are chained.	10
27	203	Yes, on this world, they begin to understand, they will have some purpose.	10
35	52	Indeed, some masters keep more than one girl just for this purpose, not merely to lessen the labors of each, but that each may, in the intensity of their rivalry, strive to please him more than the other.	10
53	126	"Surely you do not object to my making use of the funds of Kurii for such a purpose.	10

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	764	They will, through their cruelty and assertiveness, crush you in discussion, and, when it is to their purpose, demean and humiliate you".	10
3	267	One purpose they are commonly used for is to hunt down and destroy slaves.	10
3	268	That is the purpose, incidentally, for which the animals you have just seen have been trained".	10
11	327	My clothing, unknown to me, even my jacket, and, as I saw, my coat, too, had apparently been transmitted to Gor with me, though for what purpose I could not imagine.	10
16	17	The purpose of this is to retain a high level of intelligence in the caste.	10
25	302	It was a converted tharlarion wagon and, with bars and extra planking, was unusually stout, probably because its purpose was to transport fighting slaves.	10
32	212	"Can I sway you from this purpose?" "No".	10

Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	157	Its second major purpose, of course, is to hold the woman in any position one pleases.	10
12	25	"Surely you know its purpose".	10
23	274	"Little fool," he said, "for what purpose have you come to this table?" The girl lifted her head then and, timidly, lifted the ripe, rounded fruit which she held in her hands, Gorean peaches and plums, to me.	10
23	276	I then understood the purpose of the gathering of her brief yellow garment at her breasts, lifting them, sweet, rounded and swelling, for the inspection and delectation of masters.	10
24	113	The cleansing of the body, of course, is only one such purpose.	10
24	129	The second major purpose with respect to the effect on the girl, of course, is that she is touching and, in effect, in the bathing, caressing a man's body.	10
25	169	"For what purpose has he come to Victoria?" I asked.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	149	It was for such a purpose that we had placed the twenty ships of Callisthenes at that point, to guard against this major weakness in our defenses.	10
11	212	The main purpose of slave garments, of course, is not particularly to clothe the girl, for she need not even be clothed, as she is an animal, but to, as I have suggested, "set her off".	10
12	110	Narrow corridors, too, and blind passages, suddenly shut off by barred barricades, through which arrows might be fired by our men, served a similar purpose.	10
19	209	This seemed to me a suitable number for such a purpose.	10
19	244	To be sure, whatever its purpose, it makes it very clear to the slave that she is fully under discipline, and that the master may, if he wishes, beat her how, when and as much as he pleases.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	211	"But," I said, "beyond that incidental triviality, do you understand why you have been sent to my blankets, what the purpose is from your point of view, what is the purpose on which you are to be intent?" "Yes, Master," she said.	10
1	216	"What is the purpose of this parley?" I asked.	10
1	1020	The shafts of the kaiila lances are black, supple and strong; they are made of tem wood, a wood much favored on Gor for this type of purpose.	10
2	87	Each place on the bench is fitted with ankle and wrist stocks, and for each bench, if the barge was being used for its customary purpose, the transport of female slaves, there would also have been a simple, convenient plank collar.	10
6	60	The slave pits, as the men may look down upon the girls, might serve, I supposed, much the same purpose as the pre-sale exhibition cages in more urbanized areas.	10
8	485	It was almost as though he were purchasing them for some purpose other than that for which slave girls are commonly purchased.	10
14	328	"It seems I have served my purpose," she whispered, angrily, in English.	10
16	17	Now there seemed little purpose in warning them back.	10
19	441	And even had there been none to see it, at least none of our common world, that marker, the unbroken lance, the cloth wrapped about it, might have seemed to have served some purpose to he who had placed it there, perhaps standing for some measure of recollection and respect.	10

Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	334	The purpose of this custom seems to be to encourage the young man, from the very beginning, to think of himself in terms of the gallantry and generosity of the warrior.	10
12	35	In such a grouping it has no purpose of its own.	10
12	195	"Sometimes we deliver a string of five or six into the camp for that purpose," said the first lad.	10
18	305	The purpose of these scarves, I supposed, was to identify them as, and protect them as, members of the peace-making party.	10
18	306	Too, of course, they might have been intended to fulfill some medicine purpose, perhaps suggested in a dream to one of them.	10
26	17	There is a purpose to such things, of course.	10
28	310	The primary purpose of the staggering of the attack-wave riders is to bring a target which may have escaped from the attack lane of one rider almost immediately into the attack lane of another.	10
36	37	It had its purpose.	10
37	73	The purpose of this bond, however, was her own protection.	10
37	92	It is regarded as bad form, if not bad medicine, to use a weapon for such a purpose.	10
40	215	Beatings can be useful for this purpose.	10
44	74	Iwoso, I conjectured, did little without purpose.	10
44	424	"But your presence here serves another purpose, as well," said Hci.	10
47	453	He moved with purpose.	10

Book 19. (31 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	95	"That purpose which we feared might one day have to be served, that purpose, or major purpose, why you were brought to Gor".	10
30	556	"That purpose which we feared might one day have to be served," he had said, "that purpose, or major purpose, why you were brought to Gor".	10
34	211	There was indeed a minor purpose for which you were brought to Gor, that purpose which I called to your attention in the throne room, here in Argentum, that purpose which you now, you little she-sleen, obviously wish to hear explicitly reiterated".	10
30	565	That purpose, or major purpose, for which I had been brought to Gor, had not been served.	10
34	207	"If there was a major purpose for which I was brought to Gor," I said, "then it seems evident, and I think you have stated or implied as much, that there must have been a minor purpose, or purposes, as well".	10
1	242	Yet I suspected this was not their true purpose.	10
1	243	I was not particular as to what might be their true purpose, incidentally.	10
2	258	Doubtless their entry into my apartment had some purpose.	10
3	217	"What is their purpose?" I asked, frightened.	10
3	266	"But for what purpose is it to be used?" I asked.	10
3	407	"The purpose of the collar sleeve is to hide the collar," I said.	10
4	383	What purpose could have been served by such an action, however, I had no idea.	10
6	352	It was almost hard for me to remember that they were not merely ornaments to the city but that they also, in the Gorean manner, served a very utilitarian purpose.	10
8	267	Its purpose was not to confine the girl but to allow her to incorporate it in her dance, enhancing the dance with its movements and beauty.	10
9	217	"Did you spill the wine on purpose?" I asked.	10
12	93	"You will soon serve your purpose," said Ligurious.	10
12	94	"What purpose?" I said.	10
14	60	From whom would I summon help, and to what purpose? If these nocturnal visitors wished to steal me, perhaps to make me a slave or sell me, I would go only too willingly into whatever bondage they chose to inflict upon me.	10
16	380	"Its purpose is defensive, then," I said, "military".	10
30	419	In some places, low platforms of polished wood, often roofed, serve a similar purpose.	10
30	554	In the great hall, before his departure, Ligurious had told me that I would soon serve my purpose.	10
30	555	"What purpose?" I had said.	10
33	352	"I did not know," said Publius, rising to his feet, "that it was for such a purpose I was invited to Argentum.	10
34	203	"The major purpose for which I was brought to Gor, I gather," I said, "was to serve as a precautionary double for Sheila, one who might then, particularly in the event of the failure of your plans, serve to confuse or deceive enemies, one who might, say, divert attention from her true whereabouts, o...	10
34	213	"That purpose for which most women are brought to Gor," he said.	10
34	214	"And what purpose might that be?" I inquired, innocently.	10
34	215	"That purpose which you now, from your hair to your toes, manifest so perfectly," he said.	10
34	217	"That purpose?" he said.	10
36	406	It was not for such a purpose, I was confident, that he had bought me.	10
36	851	I suppose it has to do with many things, but perhaps mostly with the arousing, enflaming condition of bondage itself, with knowing oneself now in one's place in nature, with knowing oneself wholly owned, with knowing oneself at the mercy of another, with being dependent on the other, with understand...	10
36	1563	"But doubtless, too," he said, "it served a useful purpose in her on-going training".	10

Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	1180	"It has served its purpose," said Boots.	10
6	1181	"Its purpose?" asked the girl.	10
7	406	"I did not do it on purpose," said Lecchio.	10
10	370	"Surely it had little purpose other than to display you well for sale to a slaver and, in its piteousness, to invite its casual removal".	10
12	65	Now its true purpose, lurking at that square, was dramatically revealed.	10
12	263	I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of Home Stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and Scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more latent, more insidious purpose.	10
13	220	In such a cell, a humane one as Gorean cells went, the table and benches served a practical purpose.	10
13	248	I wondered if the table was in the room for a purpose, perhaps to have permitted me to see what had occurred outside in the courtyard.	10
16	1158	The purpose of the neck ropes, stretched from holes drilled near the top of the vat, is to hold the victim, whose hands are usually bound behind him, in place, preventing him not only from attempting to leave the vat but also from trying to drown himself.	10
18	210	Rather she wore ordinary slave bracelets, which would serve their purpose well, that of confining females.	10
18	299	Secure the palace!" If the escape of the prisoners did not seem sufficient for that purpose the sudden knowledge that I was still free in the palace, and mysteriously so, should prove more than adequate to accomplish that end.	10
19	138	I sensed incredible menace and purpose.	10
20	329	I did not understand the purpose of the ring, but I gathered that it was important to the beast.	10

Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	181	Their lightness, however, should not suggest an insufficiency to their primary purpose, that of inescapable fettering, of perfect restraint, which purpose, rather, they serve with a consummate effectiveness.	10
12	16	Too, the swiftest moving object, particularly that which moves silently, and with obvious menace or purpose, is often construed, and generally correctly, by the attacker as the most dangerous, that to be dealt with first.	10
15	499	Such an insult, stinging as it would be, would not serve any particular purpose at the moment, for example, stirring a foe to a fury of vengeance which might lead to miscalculation on his part.	10
15	768	"Whereas I have a reputation of being merciless to enemies, at least when it suits my purpose," he said, "I, too, have a reputation of being generous to my friends".	10
16	42	All of these women, I suspected, had been in the Semnium before, in one fashion or another, or for one purpose or another, if only to meet friends or to examine and admire the interior appointments and mosaics.	10
22	1	The Insula of Achiates; Feiqa Will Be Punished; The Whip Will Be Suitable for the Purpose "The stench is terrible," said Boabissia.	10
22	10	This is done by one of several companies organized for the purpose.	10
25	1506	Rings of this design, however, though perhaps not of this purpose, were rare in Ar, in the northern hemisphere.	10
25	1507	Most fellows of Ar would not recognize the ring, or suspect its purpose.	10
27	182	In addition to this primary purpose, however, many forms of slave bracelets are designed to set off, and enhance, the beauty of a woman, this rather in the nature of certain forms of jewelry, such as bracelets, armlets, anklets, rings, necklaces, and such.	10

Book 22. (19 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	88	Too, I think the dance served some purpose within me, though I am not sure what it was.	10
3	103	"That is their purpose".	10
8	214	To be sure, the platforms made it obvious that this area, too, could, and did, serve another purpose, as well, the vending of yet another form of livestock, the female slave.	10
9	2	We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed, given its dia...	10
9	589	That was now the whole purpose of her existence, that, and only that.	10
10	176	He was so large, and so beastlike, a complex man, I sensed, but one of simplicity in the sense of undividedness or singleness of purpose.	10
11	506	If she is close enough, of course, noises of the preceding sort may also be used for this purpose.	10
11	831	In that sense it could be almost any dance which serves the purpose of displaying the girl before her initial ravishing.	10
11	840	The purpose of this belt was to call attention to, and enhance, by sound and sight, the movements of the hips and abdomen.	10
13	747	That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...	10
17	412	"May I inquire for what purpose Master has purchased me?" I asked.	10
27	26	Did they really think he had not known his way to Brundisium, a native of Brundisium, and such a man? Did they really think he had returned to the camp only to make a fresh start in the morning? No, he had been following us for a purpose, and it had to do with a slave, one he was determined to bring...	10
27	168	If I had been used for such a purpose I hoped that I had done well, and that Aulus would be satisfied.	10
27	307	In venturing out into the night they were not unaccustomed to carrying lanterns with them, or torches, and that for so simple a purpose as merely to see their way.	10
28	93	Clearly it was possible we were being kept for such a purpose.	10
31	91	I assumed he was going to bind me for some purpose or other.	10
31	378	I had apparently served my purpose for the evening! I had now been "kenneled".	10
32	289	Though he had waited for me, once, to relieve myself, I do not think that that was the purpose of the walk.	10
34	275	"What is their purpose?" I asked.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	139	Its primary purpose was to provide a reliable, nearly indestructible surface for the rapid movement of armed men.	10
8	489	"That is the purpose of a blindfold," I said.	10
13	141	"For what purpose have you interrupted us?" I asked the warder.	10
13	178	Were they really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which mi...	10
14	232	I had enjoyed myself, but, too, my use of her, and as one might make use of a slave for such a purpose, had been a calculated one, to combat the waiting, the fear, the worry, the anticipation, the expectation, spread over Ahn.	10
15	557	That was the purpose of the cloth you wore about your head.	10
17	528	Yet who, still, would wish to be the first down the rope? "You are a brave young fellow," I said, "to have come here, for such a purpose, with but a single quarrel for your bow".	10
21	1140	The brevity of the tunic itself would be sufficient for that purpose, let alone the collar locked about the beauty's neck.	10
24	691	It is not merely that it would be, in virtue of its commonness, the most likely coin for such a purpose, but, rather, that custom prescribed its use in such contexts.	10

Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	35	Women's hair, soft, glossy, silky and resilient, stronger than vegetable fibers and more weather resistant, well woven, is ideal for such a purpose.	10
1	642	It is in some ways not unlike certain fashion shows of Earth, except, of course, that its object is generally not to merchandise slavewear, though it can have such a purpose, but to present the goods of the house, so to speak, for perusal.	10
1	828	Some were apparently developed for the purpose, and others simply utilized for it.	10
9	4	For the purpose of comfort, I much preferred this to rope.	10
12	141	"For what purpose have you come," I asked, "to torment me?" "Spread your knees more widely," she snapped.	10
19	138	This form of play, of course, has its more serious purpose, as well, given the culture.	10
19	342	The main legal purpose of the brand, incidentally, is doubtless this identification of slaves.	10
19	898	She did look back, anxiously, from time to time, but this, I think, was less to observe my interest and reaction than for the purpose of reassuring herself that I had not left.	10
22	16	For this purpose she would use a small, sharp stone.	10
35	39	It was as though he had abandoned them in favor of transforming those parts of himself into some terrible tool, one for which there could be no conceivable purpose.	10
36	62	"For what purpose?" she asked.	10
38	10	"That is the purpose of a slave hood," I said.	10
41	17	Sometimes a girl's hair is used for the same purpose.	10
43	57	This time, of course, I assumed its purpose was in effect a rather dramatic one, to create a wall, or screen, from behind which something hitherto unseen might be brought.	10
47	4	The moving aside of the curtain and the stepping forth of the slave in the new ensemble, then, is primarily for the purpose of achieving this effect, that of presenting herself dramatically before the master.	10
47	220	"For what purpose?" he asked.	10

Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	189	The cord, of course, was not for such a purpose, though that was a purpose which it could surely serve.	10
2	106	The purpose of this display was to permit the people of Ar, and elsewhere, if they wished, to vent their displeasure upon the stone, insulting it, spitting upon it, and such.	10
3	287	It was clearly a device designed for such a purpose.	10
4	10	Companies have been organized for this purpose.	10
6	28	Similarly, stout, multiply locked cage wagons may be used for a similar purpose.	10
7	419	It had served its purpose.	10
13	106	"Initiates are not needed for such a purpose," he said.	10
13	161	Naturally the motivation of this, putting aside the standard camouflage of moralistic prose which may be conveniently invoked for any purpose whatsoever, even those most antithetical to nature, health, reason, truth and life, was no concern for slaves but rather a desire to diminish the men of Ar, t...	10
15	27	"What was the purpose of all this?" asked Marcus.	10
17	304	"And for what purpose were you transported to that castle, probably his," said the ponderous fellow, "as he has several?" "To be taught, Master!" she said.	10
17	429	"And once within the trunk, it then closed again, she could, of course, her hands being free enough in the sirik to accomplish this, undo the straps, and conceal them in the flooring of the trunk, in a slot prepared for the purpose".	10
18	305	"We have all sorts of boxes and trunks which could serve the purpose quite well".	10
22	140	Some shopkeepers, householders, landlords, and such rent space on the streetsides of their buildings for this purpose.	10
25	462	"And if you had to be seduced," I said, "surely you must not object to my using her for the purpose".	10

Book 26. (40 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	What sort of girl or woman would be belled? Later, of course, bells are unnecessary for such a purpose.	10
7	62	A name for the purposes of training, a name for the purpose of kennels, and so on.	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	790	It was not simply a look at a girl he had used, a bemused glance at an instrument, now unimportant, which had served his purpose.	10
8	677	But surely it was unlikely that I had been purchased and brought here, apparently from so far away, for such a purpose.	10
8	830	And for what purpose had I been brought to this world? What, now, was the meaning of my existence? To be pleasing, and serve men! That was now what I was for.	10
8	948	It would not be, presumably, for such a purpose that I had been evaluated, and acquired.	10
8	949	But for what purpose had I been evaluated and acquired? I did not think it would be merely for the usual purposes for which one such as I might be obtained, say, being purchased off a sales block or being obtained in barter or trade.	10
9	151	It was not as though she were a slave, alone with him, naked, in her collar, who might be simply thrown back against the bars, and lifted up, and then, her feet off the ground, her back against the bars, made use of, for her major purpose, the pleasuring of a master.	10
10	458	"For what purpose?" asked a soldier.	10
11	747	I had not been informed of its purpose.	10
11	754	The purpose of the beating I am sure, and thereby the intent, the rationale, of its inclusion in my induction here, so to speak, was neither unprecedented nor unusual.	10
11	1170	"But he must originally have had you in mind for some other purpose," he said.	10
11	1839	Their most obvious purpose is to help make clear the beauty of a slave, by displaying it in a variety of movements, attitudes, and poses.	10
11	1867	Its major purpose presumably had to do with the rapid, perhaps secret deployment of troops among levels.	10
12	21	We are seldom, if ever, marked unless there is a purpose to it, as, say, when we are put under the hot iron and branded, say, for purposes of identification.	10
12	28	I was now enclosed, it seemed, in a general-purpose net, one of a sort which might serve many purposes, perhaps even the transfer of supplies from one side of a chasm to another, or cargo from one ship to another.	10
13	354	The shaved-headedness of them, aside from the usual purpose of such, which is punishment, would doubtless be to prevent the attempt on their part to secure the gate by means of their hair.	10
14	1130	"I have come here for a purpose," I said.	10
16	210	Their primary purpose is to guide in the warriors, mounted on the gigantic saddlebirds, to enable them to safely negotiate the defenses of stakes and wire on the walls.	10
16	646	My beauty, if beauty it was, was intended to have its purpose in certain plans.	10
18	54	One of the pleasures of fellows coming in from the country is to look upon the urban slaves, for which purpose they will stroll the avenues and loiter about in the plazas, the markets, and bazaars.	10
19	425	With my purpose in mind I considered the lines of captives.	10
19	688	It was not wholly for such a purpose, however, that I was waiting there.	10
19	808	That I had lingered would, I supposed, suggest to the free woman that I might have done so for a purpose.	10
19	810	But it was not for any purpose which she was likely to suppose.	10
24	246	What could be the purpose of these men here? I had just seen the fellow with a torch enter a building.	10
24	254	But if they could not take the city, nor destroy it, what was their purpose in coming here? It must be gold, I thought, or women.	10
24	580	"But what was their purpose here?" she asked.	10
28	142	Here she will be delivered into the hands not of an agent of the house of William but into the hands of one of that house itself, the youngest and least of that house, who has come to Treve for this purpose, to acquire her, to whom she is to be given as a slave".	10
31	289	"For what purpose?" asked the leader of the strangers.	10
31	429	But I did not think the peasant, that violent giant, that simple, outraged behemoth of a man, in his present state of mind, in his agitation, in the singleness of his purpose, in this ferocious, puissant concentration of all of his force, his power, against iron and rock, was troubled by pain, or ev...	10
37	521	Had it been deemed useful I had little doubt that one or more slaves might have been sacrificed, to accomplish the same purpose.	10
37	769	Now she had another role to play, I suspected, one which had doubtless been projected for her earlier, one independent of the entry of the determined, tenacious black-tunicked men onto the walkway, the role of a dangling lure, one which might serve, for some purpose, as a distraction to urts.	10
37	969	Some birds impale insects on thorns, for a similar purpose.	10
40	345	The black-tunicked men are trained to kill for a purpose, and to think as little of it as others might of the cutting of wood.	10
44	139	"You have served your purpose," said the second man.	10
45	244	"Do you not know, truly, what I want and need, that I want, and need, a master!" "I have not been sent here for the purpose of acquiring a slave for my personal delectation," he said.	10
46	48	"It was for this purpose," I asked, "that you had me at your feet, begging use?" "I have wanted you there, begging use," he said, "for a long time".	10
46	560	"What is its purpose?" "You are to be given a third blow," he said, "because I choose to give you one, and because you are a slave, and that it may serve to remind you of what you are, my little charmer, that you are a slave".	10

Book 27. (26 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	521	I thought of you with only one purpose in mind, the only purpose in terms of which you could possibly be of any value.	10
18	638	For example, she was sent to different shops and places of business, and professional activity, but each time, of course, with some ostensible, public purpose, usually connected, at least officially, with her master's interests or work, a purpose which might be ascertained, for example, by guardsmen...	10
1	67	The purpose of this injunction is not altogether clear to her, as it seems to her that they have the power to come and go, and do, much as they please.	10
4	457	I suppose you know you did that on purpose, to present yourself before me, as a female slave".	10
5	84	"What is its purpose?" she asked.	10
9	19	It is a defensive facade, just like the ideology she adopts for a similar purpose".	10
11	187	She is no longer something vague, uncertain, confused, free-floating, unanchored, intangible, a nothing, a troubled, unhappy cipher, humanly meaningless, something without purpose, without definition, without direction.	10
11	193	Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign m...	10
11	1031	She whom you referred to judiciously as Mistress Evelyn, you must understand, has served her purpose.	10
13	463	He then carried her to the saddle, over his shoulder, and laid her gently on her back, across the saddle, on the large plain surface before the pommel, perhaps a surface prepared for just such a purpose.	10
15	167	"For what purpose are most Earth females brought to Gor?" she asked.	10
16	914	Perhaps that is their ostensible purpose.	10
17	194	"What is their purpose?" asked the boy.	10
17	513	But for what purpose had it been granted to them? Surely not meaninglessly, or gratuitously.	10
17	610	Doubtless Cichek, and the others, thought that she had moved like that on purpose, that she was brazenly, shamefully, trying to interest a buyer in the merchandise which was she herself.	10
17	888	There was little doubt about the purpose or utility of such an implement, or what it would feel like on her flesh.	10
17	1156	Such bowls, or vessels, of course, serve an obvious purpose, and are common in kennels and cells.	10
18	410	Originally an ostrakon was merely a shard of pottery, often glazed, used for one purpose or another, say, for a token, a ticket, or such.	10
19	739	Perhaps he purchased me for a purpose for which he would not care to risk a Gorean girl! She remembered the messages she had carried, the intrigues, the dangers in contemporary Ar.	10
19	743	What purpose has he in mind for me now, she wondered.	10
25	871	That, of course, is the purpose of the exhibition cage, to exhibit.	10
26	144	"Surely for some purpose".	10
27	1524	"You have served your purpose".	10
29	208	She cast about, wildly, in her mind, for some way to allay his anger, to put him from his purpose, to avoid the punishment which, in her heart, she knew she deserved, and only too well.	10
29	254	This, it seemed, would be her last effort to turn him from what she feared might be, but yet trusted would not be, his purpose.	10
30	641	And many, it seems, are harvested for this purpose from my old world, Earth.	10

Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	279	She was apparently obtained by Priest-Kings for some purpose or another.	10
1	290	She was hitherto from one of the Steel Worlds, one of the animals kept there, she for the purpose of grooming her master.	10
1	344	It served much the same purpose as might a collar on, say, a dog on Earth.	10
1	412	Too, she did not understand its purpose.	10
3	19	"What is its purpose?" "To keep you where you are," said Cabot.	10
3	80	To be sure, they are designed for that purpose.	10
3	141	"They could have kept you on Earth for that, were it their purpose," he said.	10
6	14	Why? Where is Zarendargar? Who is Agamemnon? What is a Nameless One? What is the Eleventh Face of a Nameless One? How are there humans here? What do you do with them? Who are your confederates? How many have you? How do they figure in your plans? There is purpose in all this, I am sure.	10
6	15	You do little or nothing without purpose.	10
16	94	The purpose of the bait is to cluster the prey, and keep it together, but the frenzy of the jangling must surely now suggest the need for speed in the pursuit, the noise perhaps signaling the escape and scattering of startled prey.	10
24	201	"I have brought rope for the purpose," said Grendel.	10
29	26	"We are much in the open," said Cabot, "and with purpose.	10
32	235	"The fire has served its purpose," said Grendel, looking about.	10
35	16	He had selected, one evening, in the dusk, two likely branches from a young Tur tree, a tree which is found on Gor, a reddish tree which, when mature, is lofty and broadly leaved, and had shaped them to his purpose.	10
43	343	"Certainly," said Cabot, "and such a garment much enhances a woman's beauty, which is its purpose".	10
43	367	Indeed, is that not another purpose of such a garmenture, that in it a woman cannot be viewed with dignity or respect, that in it she can be viewed as only a slave.	10
53	104	In any event it bore no purple scarf, though, to be sure, such an emblem might have been removed, for one purpose or another, perhaps even to serve as a trophy.	10
55	10	Certainly it seemed suitable for its purpose, and, as it turned out, this proved to be the case.	10
55	151	"One buys them for a purpose," said Lord Grendel.	10
55	163	"Surely far superior to a rude stick," said Lord Grendel, "is an article devised to fulfill a similar purpose, and far more effectively, say, a lovely, sturdy, pliant, attractively beaded, well-crafted slave whip".	10
63	82	There would thus have to be a purpose other than her own involved in all this.	10
63	83	And what purpose could that be? "Of what use could she now be to Agamemnon?" had asked a Kur.	10
75	45	The purpose of this should be clear.	10
77	207	"To what purpose might they be put?" asked Cabot.	10
79	114	Only now was the purpose of that, in virtue of the remarks of her master, earlier and now, fully, consciously clear to her, as she might writhe and try to flee the whip, to protect her from forcible contact with a hard surface.	10
79	408	I did not do that on purpose, as with my other movements, my deliberate, intended movements of hips and belly.	10
79	529	Perhaps I was once the tool of someone or something to demean or destroy you, or serve some purpose not known to me, I do not know, but I am no longer such.	10
81	201	"To what end, for what purpose?" "I do not know," said Grendel.	10

Book 29. (26 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	435	The purpose of the sword is not to fence, not to match blades, and not to exhibit skill, nor is its purpose to reach the enemy, nor even to cut him.	10
1	40	"There is a purpose in that?" she said, uneasily.	10
1	112	"To what purpose?" "I know not," I said.	10
2	156	The purpose of her life will be to please her master.	10
3	787	Why not? They had served their purpose.	10
4	420	"What sort of rendezvous," I asked, "with whom, and to what purpose?" "I know little," she said, "save that they would enlist your services".	10
5	570	'" The unfurling of a furled banner, in given circumstances, when this is accomplished deliberately, slowly, and ritualistically, is far more than a sign of war; it is a sign of unappeasable purpose, of unmitigated intent, of implacable resolution.	10
10	123	"The other's purpose was served, surely, when the reserve was reached," said Lord Nishida.	10
10	380	To complete the disguise I would require a subordinate to play the role of a master, and for that purpose I had no difficulty in recruiting a suitable male weakling, a minor employee in the very firm in which I worked, a fool, one of several, hopelessly besotted with my beauty from afar, who would t...	10
10	498	Miss Wentworth would strike two targets with one arrow, so to speak, a transitory purpose of interest to my primaries in the north and the satisfaction of an order from a new and valued client, currently in the same area".	10
14	61	First, it might be easily slung at the saddle, freeing the tarnsman's hands, for a purpose which will soon be obvious, the use of the bow, and, second, as in some arena bucklers, it would have a bladelike edge, thus allowing it to be used to cut at an opponent's body, ideally the throat.	10
15	431	"And what is the purpose of the sword?" I asked.	10
15	436	Its purpose is to kill him.	10
16	98	For this purpose tarn baskets are sometimes used, but, if the journey is short, the tarn, even a common tarn, may carry a number of warriors, clinging to a knotted rope, some seven or so, to their destination.	10
17	27	Perhaps then, for the first time in her life, she has a purpose, and an identity; her anomie and ennui are gone; she is now meaningful.	10
17	81	What would be the purpose when its enemy was understood to be overwhelmingly overmatched? How many tharlarion would it take to press to the earth a single, scampering field urt? And, clearly, Torgus had seemed pleased.	10
18	518	"Yes," said Lord Nishida, "that, too, is a purpose of women".	10
19	83	I thought surely he was an unusual man, and one of perhaps a ferocious singleness of interest and purpose.	10
19	86	Perhaps such might have distracted him from some more remote purpose, or goal, or ideal.	10
22	530	I suspected that it was for such a purpose, ultimately, that she had been brought to Gor.	10
24	195	"I do not know why I was brought to the forests," I said, "or who saw to my bringing, but I have formed your cavalry, for whatever purpose it might serve, and others, Torgus, Lysander, Tajima, Ichiro, might now command it.	10
24	197	"You have forged a sword, and are not curious as to its purpose?" asked Lord Nishida.	10
29	18	Certain prosaic regularities contribute to this purpose, that the slave will commonly kneel upon entering the master's presence, that she may speak only when having the master's permission to do so, that she must often kneel and kiss the whip or switch in the morning, that she may not clothe herself...	10
35	78	"I did not request this audience," I said, "to apprise you of the hopeless nature of your situation, for that is something of which you are doubtless aware, perhaps more so than I, nor to impress upon you the advisabilities of desperate strategies, nor to urge even the simplest and most modest wisdo...	10
38	14	The larma does not grow naturally in Torvaldsland, but certain hard fruits do, which, happily, will serve a similar purpose.	10
38	334	Perhaps Lord Nishida had served his purpose, supplying lumber to the shipwrights at the Alexandra camp, arranging for the formation and training of a tarn cavalry, and such.	10

Book 30. (26 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	449	"Lords," said Cabot, "I do not know our destination, nor your purpose, but the destination seems remote, and the purpose important.	10
28	223	"No," she said, "a thousand times no! I have known the emptiness, the loneliness, of freedom, the pretensions, the selfishness, the uncertainties of freedom, the confusions, the lack of place, the opacities and ambiguities of freedom, the lack of purpose, the lack of meaning and identity!" "It is tr...	10
2	132	The square sail is an all-purpose sail, whose single canvas may be adjusted to the wind.	10
3	68	At that time I understood neither its purpose nor nature.	10
3	1195	Many a master, as few a mistress, has been swayed from his purpose by the heartfelt contrition of a naked slave, weeping, covering his feet with her hair and kisses.	10
3	1372	"Who is in charge here," I asked, "and what is the destination of this voyage, and what is its purpose?" "The Pani," she said, "clearly.	10
3	1375	And I do not know what might be the purpose of the voyage".	10
4	22	The other chief man, as I took him to be, was also of the Pani, who, I gathered, were important in this enterprise, whatever might be its purpose.	10
4	82	"What was your ship, and its purpose?" asked Lord Nishida.	10
5	38	For what purpose, and by what means, might these men have been assembled? I thought again of the cage of sleen.	10
8	341	"That is its purpose," I said.	10
9	56	I was not clear on the purpose of the voyage, but it doubtless had to do with war, for our ship, despite what might be the views of its shipwright, Tersites, was serving essentially as a transport, one undertaking an unprecedented voyage, whose intended destination seemed likely to be known only to ...	10
12	179	Similarly, the scantiness of common slave garb, though its principal purpose is to display the slave's beauty, has the additional advantage that it tends to render the concealment of a weapon impractical.	10
15	85	He tried to crawl toward the crutch but was kicked back, and then, the four of them, with belts, and ropes, apparently brought for the purpose, began to belabor him, fiercely, he at their feet, and Seremides began to whimper, and moan, and he folded his body on the deck, drawing up his knees, and co...	10
16	129	Then I shuddered, suspecting the purpose of the Pani lord.	10
16	134	In any event, hardly had Tyrtaios conveyed the order of Lord Okimoto, than we heard the high watch, from the platform and ring, high above, cry out, "Beware! There are a hundred ships! We are surrounded!" I had no doubt the ship we had encountered was a warning ship, and an ambush ship, but, too, it...	10
17	45	Her hair was only half-grown, and thus I supposed she was either a recent slave, for some barbarian females come from the barbarian lands with their hair short, or that it had been shaved once or twice, perhaps as a punishment, or for use as catapult cordage, for female hair is much desired for that...	10
19	166	Her purpose is to be mastered, totally, to be worked, commonly in the performance of repetitious, servile tasks, and to satisfy, obediently and unquestioningly, and helplessly, the lowest, most bestial, and carnal of her master's appetites.	10
21	402	And, I thought, Tyrtaios did little without purpose.	10
21	741	Accordingly, it seemed clear to me that there must be a different purpose behind the hooding.	10
22	79	The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death.	10
24	35	Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed Thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open sea? I had lon...	10
30	1	How the Desertion Failed of Its Purpose; I Realize the Danger Which is Not Spoken Not one man had been killed.	10
36	382	Others carry a soft cloth for such a purpose.	10
37	451	"But for what possible purpose?" asked the slave.	10
37	1113	I wondered what her fellow students, from her own world, those supposedly so superior to beauty, its naturalness, and purpose, might think of her now, she to whom they had regarded themselves so superior, on the grounds of ignorant doctrines, labored concealments, and falsifications of nature, as sh...	10

Book 31. (17 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	92	I gathered that it had served its purpose, whatever that purpose might be.	10
8	1248	She has been harvested from the slave world for one purpose, and one purpose only, to serve your pleasure, wholly, in all ways.	10
5	38	I had come to suspect that she had been disguised, and somehow placed in the sorority for some purpose.	10
5	120	Rawlinson, she is the house mother, summoned you, but for what purpose I do not know.	10
8	101	Its usual purpose, then, is not merely to hold the lovely prisoner but to make it clear to any observer, casual or otherwise, that she is powerless, vulnerable, defenseless, and unprotected, accordingly, not merely to confine her, but to expose her, or should one say, in the case of a slave, as she ...	10
9	208	"If you are interested in her attractiveness to men," he said, "for example, you might wish to give her to one or another, for an evening, or such, for some purpose of yours, you might think in terms of a camisk, a ta-teera, a bit of rep-cloth, such things".	10
16	162	I had gathered that two or three might be purchased in Venna, though I knew not for what purpose, if we were proceeding to the Voltai.	10
18	778	For example, it is almost universal that the slave may not leave the domicile without requesting permission, and it is often required that she will state the purpose of her departure and make clear her expected time of return.	10
18	885	"For what purpose are you entering the Voltai?" asked Trachinos.	10
18	990	Whether it had a purpose beyond that I did not know.	10
19	203	I understand now your protecting me, your petitioning for my charge, why you have attached yourself to our party! It is not to be near me! It is to pursue some other purpose, one of your own!" "Do not underestimate your slave interest, barbarian," he said.	10
20	192	The purpose of our venture, as you well know, seems mysterious, even to you and me.	10
26	67	"For what purpose?" asked Astrinax.	10
26	114	That would subvert the purpose of such an alliance.	10
35	333	Into whose hands would they wish such a thing to fall, and for what purpose, at present?" "Perhaps into your hands," I said, "and that of your principal".	10
37	12	She served his purpose as a pretext for hesitation in allying himself with Kurii, to win himself a more estimable offer of wealth and power.	10
52	200	"Few in Ar were interested in hazarding the perils of the Voltai, particularly in the late summer or fall, and fewer yet when the nature of the expedition, its purpose, its destination, its length, and its time of return, seemed not only obscure, but secret.	10

Book 32. (21 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	205	Their purpose was obscure.	10
6	247	"For what purpose, to what end?" I asked.	10
7	12	Within it we were helpless enough, were we not, considering the walls, the barred gate at the top of the narrow stone stairs, our nudity, the men about, and such, but, one supposes, our chaining, of one sort or another, must have had its purpose, or purposes; perhaps it was intended to be mnemonic o...	10
7	55	The cage serves an important purpose.	10
7	127	We knew the purpose of the cords, the strips of cloth, the long rope.	10
9	38	"That is the purpose of the slaves," said the officer, "to lure her in?" "Rather," said the captain, "to seem to lure her in.	10
11	13	As the slave is owned, she, as any other animal, may be put to any purpose the master pleases.	10
11	16	And even lighter labors may serve this purpose.	10
14	70	"One does not enlist a small army without purpose," I said.	10
14	71	"Perhaps there is a purpose," he said.	10
14	134	"I may be here for such a purpose," he said.	10
14	157	"Their purpose was made clear to us, on the beach, and, later, in the camp".	10
15	447	Yet, it is my distinct impression that many here, even the masters, do not understand what is being done here, its purpose, and its destiny.	10
15	476	Why would tarns be needed? What purpose might they serve? Too, even though the vessel was large, it would carry hundreds of times the men required to manage it.	10
16	22	An end had apparently come to the seemingly endless round of cutting and hauling, lopping, the rough shaping, and rude trimming, to the backbreaking labor in the forest, the purpose of which was never explained to us.	10
20	151	"We have served our purpose," said another, "in Tarncamp, and now in Shipcamp.	10
21	245	The primary purpose of the fire then, I supposed, had been to mark the location of this rendezvous.	10
21	380	I gathered that it had served its purpose, marking their campsite, and that the beasts had little need of its illumination.	10
27	57	Though I was weary, and hungry, so hungry that I was almost faint with hunger, I forced myself to go further, and further, to put every tenth of a pasang I could between myself and the kennels and chains of Shipcamp, and the great, fearful, mysterious ship restless at its cables, the purpose of whic...	10
37	183	It was then only necessary to contact the employer, and convince him that we might serve his purpose.	10
43	101	"And it was for that purpose," he said, briefly glancing behind him, and to his left, where Donna knelt, in her scarlet tunic, "that a given slave, a former Panther Girl, indeed, one once of your own band, was obtained, that she might abet our search".	10

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	487	They were to make contact with me following my disembarkation on a designated beach north of the Alexandra, and see that I reached a rendezvous deep within the bordering northern forest, where I would be met, for some purpose unknown to them.	10
9	103	It was just as well, for there would be little purpose in bringing the cavalry to the holding, and, in addition, I was reluctant to see the disposition allotted to the trapped looters, many of whom were not even armed, their greed having encouraged them to disburden themselves of the inconvenience a...	10
10	167	"For such a purpose," I said.	10
12	108	"There was a purpose for that," he said.	10
27	142	"He is unlikely to postpone the march of thousands of men for such a purpose," said Haruki.	10
30	344	Similarly it might be noted that the snug double belting of the common camisk, usually of cordage, thongs, or binding fiber, is not designed merely to emphasize the woman's figure, and in such a way as to make it clear it is the figure of a slave, but to serve a similar purpose.	10
40	89	"That you did not immediately present Tajima, the tarnsman, to the shogun suggests you were holding him for a purpose, perhaps that he might later figure in a staged capture, redounding to your benefit.	10
40	90	That you did not immediately return the shogun's daughter to him, and his justice, might serve a similar purpose, or perhaps, more likely, while it might be assumed or alleged that she had perished, she might be retained, her curves suggesting that she might prove of slave interest".	10
45	106	"You were placed there for a purpose," said Tajima.	10
45	107	"But for what purpose?" I said.	10
46	83	"They have a purpose here," said Tajima.	10
47	108	"No," he said, "the execution was to serve a political purpose, which no longer exists.	10
48	75	What then is the purpose of our discussion?" "I would like a guarantee of the inactivity, the neutrality, of the cavalry," he said.	10
54	215	Its purpose had been little more than to convince the house of Temmu that the dragon was dangerous, powerful, irresistible, and flew for Yamada.	10
57	253	"What is the purpose of all this?" she asked.	10

Book 34. (47 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
23	143	Who would better serve my benign purpose?" "Your purpose is benign?" I said.	10
36	109	"They must have some purpose, some dark purpose," he said.	10
2	72	"What would be the value or purpose of such a disclosure? How would it benefit either world? Would it not shatter comfortable visions, disrupt cultures, shake civilizations, alarm and unsettle populations, produce social, economic, and intellectual chaos? No, it is better for Gor to conceal itself, ...	10
2	235	You have no purpose, no depth.	10
2	240	You are a manufactured article, an artifact, not even aware of the machine that created you, and its purpose in doing so, that you might mindlessly consume goods and fuel the engines of others.	10
2	241	There is no more meaning, purpose, or weight to you than to a handful of confetti.	10
6	468	Certainly it would not be without its purpose, or purposes.	10
6	475	But one supposes there might have been another purpose, as well, to that seemingly small, but surely awesome, demonstration.	10
7	61	Surely this is some gross imposture foisted upon us, but for what reason? What purpose would such a charade serve?" "We are proud of her," said our guide.	10
9	297	Considering the satisfactions, delights, and pleasures attendant on the mastery, men, in my view, were not the most auspicious candidates for the purpose I had in mind.	10
10	163	In the southern hemisphere, the coinage of mighty Turia serves a similar purpose.	10
13	32	I now cast the scouring sand onto the cooking surface of the pan and reached for the thick, damp, rubbing cloth by means of which it might be put to its purpose.	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	135	Indeed, one wonders if some things might be demeaned, and less lovely, and less worthy of regard, had they such a purpose.	10
15	173	A whip is used with bosk or kaiila, but it serves little purpose with tharlarion, given the thickness of their hide, and their comparative lack of responsiveness.	10
23	202	"A gift," he said, "but a gift we intend to acquire, a gift for which we have our own purpose".	10
26	234	In his hand were various objects, three of which I recognized, and two whose purpose was uncertain to me.	10
26	236	The other two, the purpose of which I was uncertain, were a wooden rod terminating in a collar, and what seemed to be a dark, narrow, bandage.	10
26	270	I, and others, who choose not to appear publicly, will then see that the shipment itself is diverted to our principal, who will put it to his own purpose".	10
27	59	I now understood better, though, as it later became clear, did not understand well enough, the purpose of the collar-and-stick arrangement that had puzzled me that morning, four days ago, in the black court.	10
28	223	"It has served its purpose".	10
28	236	Copper tarsks, in that district, will be sufficient for such a purpose.	10
30	39	How dared they? Did they think I was being brought to the tavern as a new paga girl? Did they think I was to be put in so tiny and thin a tunic, to be so helplessly, so shamelessly, displayed before a master's patrons? But then I realized I could be sold to such an establishment, for just such a pur...	10
30	370	Domestic tasks, too, I had been instructed in, to some extent, cooking, cleaning, sewing, and such, tasks that I would once, as a free woman, have regarded as beneath me, for a slave is many things to a master, tasks that I now loved as they would help me, in their humble way, to better serve a mast...	10
33	76	"This beast," said Kurik, "has been transmitted from afar, for a particular purpose.	10
33	309	Do you know for what purpose you were brought to Gor?" "No," it said.	10
33	508	I know your purpose, that for which you were contrived.	10
34	258	"But for what purpose?" "Master Tyrtaios did not say," I said.	10
34	266	"But, clearly," he said, musingly, "this purpose, it will have to do with the monster".	10
34	289	"The purpose obviously has to do with the monster, with Lord Grendel," he said.	10
36	108	"For what purpose would they contact Lord Grendel?" I asked.	10
38	21	"If there was no message," he said, "then the purpose of the rendezvous, in the plans of Decius Albus, was to locate me in Ar".	10
42	156	Clearly their intent, if what you suggest should be true, is to make use of Lord Grendel, for one purpose or another".	10
42	158	"But for what purpose?" she asked.	10
42	193	What is your purpose?" "I have spoken the truth, Mistress," I said.	10
45	55	I had no doubt that he had recognized me, his dupe, she whom he had so easily and effectively deceived, she whom he had so easily tricked into serving his own purpose.	10
49	116	His appearance here, as his purpose, is now well accounted for, as the lists will show.	10
51	160	"A ruse," he said, "to pursue a purpose".	10
51	311	What a fool I had been! Did I not know that I was a slave? Did I not know that there was a collar on my neck, a brand on my thigh? Did I not know that slaves were worthless animals, that we were to be demeaned, scorned, exploited, worked, and ravished, that our purpose was to serve our masters and s...	10
52	77	"I come for another purpose altogether," said Drusus.	10
56	136	"That is the true purpose of your visit here," said Lord Grendel.	10
61	347	"Surely, as men," called Drusus Andronicus, "you can think of better things to do with such goods, kajirae, can you not, than feed them to hungry beasts, better things to do with them than put them to the purpose of a beast's provender".	10
63	10	That is their purpose, to render their occupant helpless.	10
65	27	Indeed, when a city is besieged, even free women may donate their own hair for such a purpose.	10
65	322	"A useful one," she said, "one that served its purpose".	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	45	No longer are we without purpose; we now have a purpose; it is to serve and please our masters.	10
25	146	What might explain that torn, twisted metal, rent like straws in the hand of a giant, that formidable business? Might it not have a purpose? If so, what might be its purpose? Might it not be an announcement, a greeting, an inquiry, an invitation to someone, or something, to meet and parley?".	10
5	142	Its purpose is to conceal the slave.	10