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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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18 78 I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the climb made such...
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 39 In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Castes to raise caste.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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9 4 The stones of the floor are hard and the Gorean nights are cold and it is a rare girl who, when unchained in the morning, does not seek more dutifully to serve her master.
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25 118 In another case, somnolent and swollen, I saw a rare golden hith, a Gorean python whose body, even when unfed, would be difficult for a full-grown man to encircle with his arms.
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 79 Her shops were filled with rare, intriguing paraphernalia.
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12 44 Indeed, in the spring, with the results of caravan raids already accumulating, it is a rare night on which one cannot see one or more such dances performed.
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12 93 On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds.
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12 96 It must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit.
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12 208 I saw among them even some Kassars and Paravaci, and one of the rare Kataii, seldom seen in the encampments of the other peoples.
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13 202 He could never, like most native speakers of Gorean, properly handle the "w" sound, for it is extremely rare in Gorean, existing only in certain unusual words of obviously barbarian origin.
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Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

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17 141 But, as this lawlessness grew, and it became such that men would not walk the bridges without arms, the frenzy over the races and the games grew more rabid; it became rare on the streets and bridges to pass a person who would not, either for himself or for someone he knew, wear a faction patch, even...
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3 188 "Do you wish to reconsider your last move?" he asked, offering a rare concession among players of the game, and one I had never expected the Vintner, from what I had seen of him, to offer.
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8 135 "Actually," I said to Elizabeth, "this is very rare.
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9 101 Exotics are generally quite rare.
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13 86 At that point, looking back once more, and noting that I was still moving quickly toward her, and not willing to lose a possible rare day's freedom, she began, with the marvelous, strong trained stroke of her legs and arms, to slice swiftly through the water.
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17 755 I realized, to my pleasure, if danger, that I had come upon one of those rare persons who possesses a remarkable aptitude for the game.
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20 218 Her capacity, raw and brilliant, was simply a phenomenon, one of those rare and happy gifts one sometimes discovers, to one's delight or dismay, and she had caused me much of both.
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22 431 To the crowd's astonishment, but not to mine, he wheeled his tarn, a rare, gloriously plumaged jungle tarn from the tropical reaches of the Cartius, to block the first of the right center rings.
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22 456 I knew Mip had had something of this rare gift and did not suppose that others, skilled, veteran riders, would be completely without it.
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Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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7 117 Still, the escape of a slave girl, or of a male slave, must indeed be rare from canaled Port Kar, protected as it is on one side by the Tamber Gulf and gleaming Thassa, and on the other by the interminable marshes, with their sharks and tharlarion.
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16 29 In that overcrowded desert of hypocrisies and hysterical, meaningless violences, she would surely wither and blacken, like some rare and beautiful plant of the marshes uprooted and thrust down among stones to die.
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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1 107 I made a rare phone call to my mother a few weeks after my graduation, thinking it might be interesting to take up modeling.
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8 375 It is a rare man who will approach a tarn.
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14 293 "It is rare," said Ena, proudly.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 100 Such girls are commonly rare in the north.
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

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4 13 Good soil is rare and highly prized.
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6 309 Indeed, the true hall, lofty, high-beamed, built of logs and boards, with its benches and high-seat pillars, its carvings and hangings, its long fires, its suspended kettles, was actually quite rare, and, generally, only the richest of the Jarls possessed such.
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7 240 "It could be, for those of the Kurii are quite rare this far to the south".
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8 77 It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, the result of the inadequate digestion of cuttlefish.
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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...
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10 649 The gift of a female is sufficiently trivial that the honor of the Forkbeard as my host would not be in the least threatened; further, this was a desirable wench, whose cuddly slave body would be much relished by the Forkbeard and his crew; further, being trained, she would be a rare and exquisite t...
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12 33 It was rare for one man to win even two talmits.
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Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 409 The man, rare in Port Kar, wore the kaffiyeh and agal.
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2 185 Too, blue-eyed, blond women are, statistically, rare in the Tahari districts.
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2 233 Only the rare, long-stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds.
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3 93 Such instruments were rare in the Tahari region.
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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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4 177 "Surely, someday on Earth," said the man, "the males will dare to be men?" "I do not think so," I said, "save for rare individuals.
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5 37 Both sorts of stones were rare in the Tahari gem trade.
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5 623 Blond hair and blue eyes, too, in this region, made her a rare specimen.
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10 375 I supposed, further, that the rare event had here taken place of a girl meeting her true master, and a man his true slave girl.
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11 97 Oases were becoming rare.
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11 317 War, for example, between conquering tribes and rebellious vassal tribes is, although not unknown, quite rare.
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Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 529 It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...
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4 82 The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w...
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4 382 I had thought, before I was clearly apprised of the nature of Bina, cheap slave beads, that perhaps the men had supposed that I was to be chained at the rock, adorned with some rare and valuable necklace, worth perhaps a fortune.
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5 836 It is a rare girl who, having tasted the mills or sul fields, does not beg her proprietor to be sold again on the open market, that she may attempt anew, and perhaps more successfully this time, to be pleasing to a man.
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8 156 Although grown, wild sleen have been caught and domesticated, this is rare.
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9 2449 It had been only a cheap hard candy but such things are rare in the lives of most slave girls.
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13 73 "Some," said Sucha, "but these individuals are rare, and are the offspring of individuals who have had the serums".
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22 55 Further, such beasts are rare.
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22 374 Although there are bred slaves they are, statistically, rare.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 636 Gorean slave girls, incidentally, almost always go barefoot; it is a rare girl, and a high girl, who is permitted sandals.
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3 638 Earth-girl slaves, thanks to the raids of Kur slavers, are not as rare on Gor as they used to be.
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9 219 Cavities are rare in Goreans, incidentally, because of their simple diet and the general absence of cruel emotional stress, with its physiological and chemical consequences, particularly during puberty.
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11 341 Such hair, as I have noted, is rare on Gor.
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12 144 Within given groups, incidentally, theft is rare.
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14 312 None, I think, had thought to see so rare and delicious a sight as bondage strings on the throat of the arrogant, fiery Poalu.
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20 158 Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin.
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20 159 That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed.
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22 130 "It is a broad-head, and they are rare in these waters in the fall.
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 342 "Her hair and coloring is rare in Schendi?" I asked.
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5 507 Sometimes when a woman is freed, for one reason or another, as can happen upon rare occasions, she becomes, sometimes after an initial elation, restless, and later, miserable.
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6 602 Beautiful slave girls, clothed and unclothed, are not that rare on Gor.
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32 993 Knife branding, too, practiced by some primitive peoples, is quite rare.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 416 "Do you think we were all so rare and different?" she asked.
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11 405 How rare is courage.
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22 117 How powerful are the forces of socialization! How rare the individual who has the intelligence and strength to examine inflicted orthodoxies! How few can detect the subtle encompassing walls, let alone break or scale them.
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25 229 After having been sent into the humiliations and dangers of the streets it is a rare girl who does not hurry back, eager and chastened, to the intimate joys of a private slavery.
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27 61 One of the rare exceptions is the Turian camisk.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 139 In any event, it must be rare, being so seldom found; and it must be perilous, so few dare to utter it.
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20 1494 It is a rare slave who does not know how to excite, intrigue, and arouse a master.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1332 What a rare, welcome and felicitous coincidence do we here encounter.
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13 204 "If you should prove unusual in some respect, although this is extremely rare," I said, "we can, tomorrow, grind one of Grunt's trading knives into a lancet".
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15 186 It is extremely rare in the Barrens.
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Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 146 It is a rare slave who does not adjust her hair and collar, and tunic, in the mirror before venturing into the streets.
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13 55 "She is beautiful, and her coloring and hair are rare in our country," said Mahpiyasapa.
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44 704 It is a rare slave girl, seeing a man she wishes to buy her, who will not move, however subtly, within her chains.
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47 195 This suggested that such groups were rare.
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54 106 Such times of celebration, of festivals and peace, particularly among diverse tribes, are rare and precious.
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54 291 Grunt, of course, received his five hides and Mahpiyasapa received the rare, red-haired woman he had, in effect, ordered from Grunt last year.
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 146 One must always be a bit suspicious of the putatively rare and valuable coin which seems to appear inexplicably, with no certifiable background, on the market, particularly if it lacks the backing of an established house".
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1 276 He was not looking at me furtively, pretending to be interested in something else, or even frankly, like some men of Earth, rare men, who look honestly upon a female, seeing her as what she is, a female.
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26 351 "It is not that rare, actually," said Aemilianus.
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36 429 But the men of Gor, if only the unwitting beneficiaries of an historical accident, were never confused and tricked out of their birthright of health; or, I wondered, was it only a statistical anomaly, a rare sort of historical accident, or misadventure, or wrong turning, that some cultures were twis...
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36 696 Indeed, it is a rare master, I suspect, who does not, eventually, relish having his girl, naked and in her collar, soft, and warm, beside him.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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2 904 It is, of course, rare, and a lovely color.
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7 112 Some people actually make their living in this way, acting as buying agents, providing services such as locating rare slaves for collectors and filling the "want lists" of rich men.
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13 331 Too, however, I knew the urt people could, and did upon occasion, as in their rare contacts with civilized folk, communicate in a type of Gorean, many of the words evidencing obvious linguistic corruptions but others, interestingly, apparently closely resembling archaic Gorean, a language not spoken...
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Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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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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3 309 Such animals were probably extremely rare now, at least within one or two day's ride of the march.
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4 29 It is a rare council or citizenry that does not breathe more easily once the wagons have taken their way out of their lands.
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9 257 "Perhaps he has precious stones, rare gems, sewn in his clothing, for an emergency," I said.
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15 376 She had been beaten, doubtless a rare experience for a high slave.
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15 429 Can this wine, which seems like a cheap ka-la-na, be the rare Falarian? But in a moment she is unconscious.
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20 44 In such places were to be found the rare, precious habitats of culture, the astonishing, moving delights of art and music, the truths of theater and literature, the glories and allegories of architecture, bespeaking the meanings of peoples, man-made symbols like mountain ranges; in them, too, were t...
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25 1268 On Gor it is extremely rare for a female slave to address her master by his name.
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25 1506 Rings of this design, however, though perhaps not of this purpose, were rare in Ar, in the northern hemisphere.
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25 2246 "But," I said, "alas, such love, like any love, is rare and precious.
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26 1706 And both the Gorean woman and the Earth girl, embonded, learning there is no escape for them and that they are irrevocably slaves, unless masters choose to free them, an act which is not only rare and foolish, but almost nonexistent, soon adjust to their new life and, sometimes to their surprise, an...
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 653 How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or...
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21 33 Such passages are rare in alcoves but they are not unknown.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 360 Applied with the brush it is used, as would be mineral grease, were it more commonly available, to lubricate the moving parts of the wagon, in particular the axles, and where the rare wagon has them, metal springs, usually of the leaf variety.
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10 131 It was a rare fellow who did not, from time to time, regard the women of his own city as quite as suitable for collaring as those of other cities.
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21 474 Prostitution, rare on Gor because of female slaves, is another case.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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9 60 The loss of men to quicksand was rare now, given the lines.
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19 277 Such is almost unheard of amongst Gorean free women and is rare even among slaves.
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19 284 One would not wish to buy a girl thinking she was auburn, a rare and muchly prized hair color on Gor, for example, and then discover later that she was, say, blond.
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28 455 "It is my understanding that blond rencers are rare," he said.
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42 114 "To be sure, she is still free, and free women, in this area, or at least free women of Ar, or those who speak with such an accent, are rare".
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44 34 That is a rare brand site, like the inside of the left arm, or the lower left abdomen, but it is not unknown.
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45 52 Such closures are rare in the garments of female slaves.
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46 243 Runaway slaves, incidentally, are extremely rare on Gor.
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48 452 "It is rare that the use of a hundred-gold-piece girl is handed about so freely".
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Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 604 Indeed, it was almost as though each of them, though perhaps a low girl in the tavern rosters, and much subject to the whip, had become "first girl" to some free woman or other, a rare turnabout in the lives of such collared wenches.
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3 889 Triple "larls" is a rare throw, obviously.
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7 278 Indeed, some men, collectors, use their gardens mainly for housing their collections, say, of different types of women, selected perhaps primarily with an eye to illustrating, and exhibiting, various forms of female beauty, or, indeed, even for their unique or rare brands.
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9 293 She knew that she was unusually beautiful, even on a world where beauty is not rare.
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9 686 I could remember when they were quite rare on Gor.
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12 359 Even though such sights were not rare in Ar, in the past months, a free woman, leashed, in the custody of guardsmen or auxiliaries, presumably having been appropriated for levies, or perhaps merely having been subjected to irrevocable, unappealable seizure at an officer's whim, yet men turned to reg...
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19 307 That call takes precedence, of course, over a detention by strangers, but it is a rare girl who will simply leap up, not dismissed, and flee from the presence of free men.
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19 829 It is a rare day on which the master does not see fit to put them to his pleasure.
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21 36 Chronometers exist on Gor, but they are rare and valuable.
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Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

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8 728 We, I gathered, were quite rare, though it seems not as rare as once we were.
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8 291 Some women keep male silk slaves, but they are rare.
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10 243 White-silk slaves, as you might suppose, are very rare.
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10 687 But, to be sure, blond hair, genuinely blond hair, is rare on this world, except for certain areas, as it is on my old world.
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12 434 And, indeed, who knew what further largesse one might obtain from such as he, particularly if one handled such matters cleverly, what further rare and precious encouragements such as he might lavish upon me, to woo my favor? My favor, I assure you, would not be easily won, if at all.
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13 665 "They are rare," said another.
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18 52 What red-blooded male would object to viewing us? What truly virile male would object to owning one or more of us? And suppose that we were not that rare.
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18 148 Too, I had seen more than one nude slave on her leash; that, however, is rare, and is usually done as a punishment.
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19 410 To be sure, parties of this size, with the bars sounding and such, were presumably rare on the loading docks.
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19 1216 Such tidbits, such things as a fresh apricot, are rare in the depths, even in the diet of a free woman.
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24 274 Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro...
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33 53 The sleen is, at least in civilized areas, a rare, expensive and dangerous beast.
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44 225 "We are granting you a rare privilege.
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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9 48 In Gorean society, with its emphasis on locality and neighborhood, with its diverse Home Stones, each with its own history and traditions, with its many castes and subcastes, each with its acknowledged privileges and rights, and obligations, respected by all, political upheavals, social disruptions,...
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10 145 And it is a rare slave who has not, upon occasion, her master's patience at an end, been put upon her knees, facing a wall, gagged, her hands tied behind her back, or perhaps, bound hand and foot, her mouth taped shut, thrown naked on a bed.
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15 119 Some Gorean masters do not permit their girls to look into their eyes unless bidden to do so, but this is rare.
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16 160 Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant Law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
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16 727 Naked slave girls are not that rare in a Gorean city.
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18 215 On her old world, in what had been her city of residence, unauthorized scrawlings, blatant obscenities, defiling letterings, ignorant vandalisms and such were common, these things exhibiting hatred, incivility, a disrespect for property, a petty, ugly desire to defile, to destroy and such, but they ...
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25 1107 How terrifying to find oneself in chains, owned, stripped, at the feet of one whom one has betrayed! But such cases are rare, and extreme.
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30 724 Doubtless on Earth, somehow, despite all, there are true men, masters, and rare and precious they must be, but such are abundant, indeed, almost universal, on Gor.
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Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

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1 35 It is one of the rare places the universe has stirred, and awakened, and opened its eye, and looked upon itself, startled to learn that it exists.
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1 318 On the whole, however, this is rare with Gorean humans, who tend to be traditional in such matters and accordingly are inclined to refrain from such practices.
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1 518 That is doubtless the reason they are not as rare on Gor as formerly.
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1 626 On her rare dates she would remain aloof and remind her companions, when necessary, in quite clear terms, to their chagrin, of her dignities and their correspondent duties.
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26 9 Such translators are rare.
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26 216 "They are yours, and the silver is rare here and valued by Kurii, for ornaments, and such".
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45 134 This is common, of course, with slaves, but it is quite rare with free women.
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53 157 To be sure, occasionally, a confederacy of sorts is formed amongst such brothers, in pursuit of a common concern, but that tends to be frowned upon, and is supposedly rare".
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74 120 The writer feels that, beyond a certain point, skill with the crossbow is as respectable and rare as that with the great bow.
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77 210 "As rubies are rare," said Cabot, "and valuable, I doubt that you would choose to dispose of them here, in the world.
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79 56 It is not so rare, really, for there are men and women, and where there are men and women, there are masters and slaves.
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79 153 It is a rare Gorean camp, incidentally, which does not have its slaves, for, as noted, Gorean men are fond of them, and reluctant to forgo their services and pleasures.
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Book 29. (22 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 67 To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...
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2 85 There are slave farms here and there, but they are rare, and often specialize in exotics of various sorts.
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2 90 The bred slave, other than in the sense that all women are bred slaves, is rare.
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2 96 And such conceptual reformulations, as is well known, are difficult, rare, and, oddly, often unwelcome.
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2 108 I thought it germane to the narrative, however, to refer to the stabilization serums, because of the reference to the rare "bred slave".
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3 145 Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had ...
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3 227 "It must be rare in the forests," I said.
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5 88 The gold is the symbol of that which is rare, is precious, is constant, and does not tarnish.
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7 307 In any event, virgin slaves were rare.
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9 80 And if that is the case, will she not require a male to complete her disguise, one who will pose as her master? And, as noted, earlier, free women are rare in certain locales, such as the northern forests.
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10 792 "Her yellow hair, blue eyes, and fair skin will be rare at home.
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13 247 While some in the streets hunted urts to live, we enjoyed the most delicate of a hundred viands, the richness of a hundred rare wines.
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15 67 "Virgin slaves," I said, "are very rare".
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18 140 Body armor was rare, and doubtless expensive, and, it seems, many warriors, even by preference, went into battle nude, save for helmet and shield.
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18 511 Coffers are being forced open, and precious vessels, and handfuls of coins and jewelry, are being seized; silken hangings are draped on brawny arms; amphorae are unearthed; the odor of paga pervades the camp, and common warriors, perhaps for the first time, taste rare ka-la-na, guzzling it like kal-...
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22 249 The skills involved in such a display are rare.
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23 15 I supposed one such as a shogun would suffer no dearth of collar-girls, say, women purchased in one market or another or captured from alien houses, but I supposed she would be rare, if not unique, amongst his female possessions.
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23 68 One wore the Turian camisk, rare in the north, and two were in cleverly contrived ta-teeras, a form of garment which some think of as "slave rags".
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27 44 Theft is rare on Gor, and so, too, is ambition masked as compassion.
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30 40 Many Gorean pilots are reluctant to venture beyond the sight of land, and open-sea voyages of more than a few days are rare, except in Torvaldsland.
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33 29 "Men such as you," I said to Lord Nishida, "are rare in what we sometimes think of as 'known Gor'".
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33 62 On the rare occasions when they dealt with human beings directly, translators were utilized.
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Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 280 To be sure, it was a high-caste name, rare amongst the lower castes.
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1 282 It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies.
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1 433 Some masters do not permit their girls to look into their eyes, but that is rare.
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2 119 To be sure, interceptions were rare, and it was suspected that this had more to do with understandings and secret fees than faulty intelligence.
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7 139 It is a rare slave who does not sometimes kneel before her master, and whimper, "Your slave, my Master, would be chained.
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7 145 It is a rare Gorean who does not speculate what even a free woman, bundled in her stiff, ornate robes, concealed within her layers of veils, would look like, stripped, collared, and at his feet, perhaps on all fours, looking up at him, frightened, the whip or switch between her teeth, hoping it will...
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12 55 Sails had been quickly reefed, lest, by a rare, larger stone, they might be cut.
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12 92 Solitude on a ship is rare, and the high watch afforded one of the few opportunities on a ship, say, a round ship, and certainly on the ship of Tersites, to be alone.
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12 467 To be sure, it is a rare slave who will meddle in the matters of masters.
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17 95 Many masters, in their pride and vanity, and as evidence of their wealth, good fortune, or taste, enjoy displaying their slaves, much as owners of various goods, of various sorts, enjoy displaying other sorts of properties, statuary, rare coins, artworks, fountains, veminium gardens, classical czeha...
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19 26 Needless to say, white-silkers are rare in the markets.
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21 350 Sometimes a woman is sold, hooded and gagged, but this is rare, as a buyer usually wishes to see all of a slave, before risking coin.
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36 17 Apparently fair-skinned female slaves were rare in the islands, and often figured, amongst other gifts, in the attempts to woo political alliances.
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36 19 For example, a girl who might go for less than a silver tarsk in Brundisium might, presumably as something rather in the nature of an exotic slave, certainly a rare one, bring the equivalent in local currency of two or three such tarsks in the islands.
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36 269 It would be rare, given the common meaning of the talmit, that of authority, to see two together, both in the talmit.
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37 49 To be sure, a white-silk slave is quite rare.
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37 67 As mentioned, white-silk slaves are rare.
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37 839 "Barbarians are not that rare," he said, "not in the larger markets.
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Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 158 Could it be that I was not alone, that I was not an isolated, shameful exception to the pompous glories of political orthodoxy? How rare is courage! How mighty is the shuffling, drifting, dull, pressing herd! Eve, Jane, and I exchanged frightened glances.
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8 1053 She did have "golden hair," which was rare, but surely not unknown.
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8 1059 It is probably a matter of its rarity, as it tends to be even more rare than "golden hair".
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8 1427 I, like the others, in such welcome opportunities to enter the eating hall, rare in my case, would hitch up my tunic, and be somewhat negligent in the adjustment of the disrobing loop.
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8 1495 I have seen low-caste free women drink through the veil, but this is rare.
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8 1498 This is, however, rare.
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8 1968 How proud she is then, the possessor of so rare a treat, and how envied she will be amongst her chain sisters! How she will nurse that treat, making it last as long as possible! To be sure, such tipping is frowned upon by the establishment, as the women are merely slaves.
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8 2029 Membership, this presenting us as rare prizes in marital competitions, above lesser advantaged girls, much increased the likelihood of our obtaining an enviable match.
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17 249 And, of course, though the final word is the master's, it is a rare master who is immune to the delights which a lovely slave might choose to present for his consideration.
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22 137 "We have," said Kleomenes, "a rare liqueur of Turia, which we were saving for the night of victory, the celebration of a successful hunt".
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23 108 "That is rare," said Desmond of Harfax.
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27 374 "White-silk slaves are rare on Gor".
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33 57 Domesticated larls are rare.
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34 70 Indeed, I had gathered, from remarks by our Gorean chain sisters in the quarters, that such an appointment was rare.
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41 13 Change is part of life; but an advantageous metamorphosis is rare.
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Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 14 How damp and foul may be the sawdust for subsequent items! To be sure, such things are rare, probably because the sales have been rehearsed.
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5 248 Would it not be a rare girl who has been sold but once? One is then concerned less with the fact that one is sold, for one knows one is a slave, than the quality of the market, the category in which one is sold, say, a pot girl or a pleasure slave, the price one may bring, particularly in comparison...
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14 422 "Laris are rare in the locale of the Cartius," he said.
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20 180 "Vessels of rare metal, black- and red-figured potteries, candles and lamps, perfumes and silks," said Janina.
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21 338 "ft is from a Home World," said the beast, "ft is rare here.
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25 22 Mechanical chronometers exist but they are rare, and expensive.
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37 142 So, I thought, the sorry wallet has been opened, and it contains a coin of gold; the dingy wrapper has been unrolled, and within it we find rare silk; the uninspiring amphora has been unsealed, and within it we find a splendid wine, the sort men might prize, and for which they might bid, and heatedl...
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39 360 It is more familiar than, and one thinks less of it than, the occasional, usually rare, public nudity of female slaves.
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41 196 On the other hand in, say, the street, eye contact between a slave and a free person, say an unknown male, or, particularly, a free woman, is rare, unless commanded.
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50 817 Happily for women, and, I suppose, for their owners, if they are owned, it is very rare that their disagreements, unlike those of men, result in any permanent injuries or disablements.
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Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 498 Indeed, it seemed that she, blond-haired and blue-eyed, features rare in the Pani islands, might have been used to fill a special order.
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29 297 What woman, slave or free, objects to being beautiful? Indeed, what free woman has not conjectured how she might appear, so excitingly and beautifully clad? Nudity, incidentally, is not so rare amongst Gorean men, particularly those engaged in heavy labors.
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30 281 Slave beatings, incidentally, are quite rare, and almost always of a punitive nature.
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32 191 "It is rare to see such skill," said Tajima.
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41 37 In a war camp, free women, and even contract women, would be rare.
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46 352 "And coins are rare".
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50 122 What is the lever or the wheel, compared to the meaningful sound? What a rare moment when a simple organism, shambling and brutelike, in lost millennia, first lifted its head to the sky, and realized, in a stunning, magical moment, that a sound might mean.
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61 110 Such are exceedingly rare, and are seldom long unclaimed.
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61 963 Her complexion, hair color, and eye color would be rare in the islands.
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61 1262 "Given your veiling, and half-veiling, in your rare public appearances, few will know the former Ubara of Ar by sight.
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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8 365 And Kurii have no objection to arming, and equipping, humans, provided we prove to be of service, transporting envoys and agents, carrying messages, probing defenses, obtaining rare materials, metals, chemicals, and such, scarce in the Kur worlds".
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11 29 They were, however, rare in the vicinity of Victoria.
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15 322 Can one die of such things? How frightening, and amazing, it would seem to me, later, to understand that men, some rare, few men, dare to share the sky with such things.
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63 318 Nudity in Gorean streets is rare, and usually reserved for a new slave, usually one who has recently been a free woman, or a slave being disciplined.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 170 Could this sort of beauty, so rare on Earth, be common, be familiar, be scarcely noteworthy, on this world? Surely not! "You should all be ground up for sleen feed," snarled the man.
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1 203 What was startling to me, and somewhat unsettling, was the comprehension that our beauty, rare as it was on Earth, might, given the selections of the acquirers, be unremarkable on this world, at least amongst importations such as we.
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8 308 Barbarians might be rare in their collars, but they surely existed.
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11 183 Sharks are rare in the canals, but they occasionally slip through the sea gates, either from the marshes or from the Tamber itself.
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14 220 Incidentally, slave theft on Gor is very rare, certainly within particular communities.
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24 205 "The coinage of Ar is rare in Port Kar," he said.
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27 85 "How rare," said the second man, "what an improbable pair, a lying, importunate beggar, falsely professing hunger, with a purse at his belt, and a slave who cannot speak".
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33 156 Patches of quicksand, which are rare in the marshes, are sometimes marked by Rencers with yellow-tufted wands.
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41 77 These swift, terrible, broad-winged monsters were rare in the vicinity of Port Kar.
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46 37 How well she then understands herself a slave, and how precious is the release when granted! But, mercifully, such torment is rare.
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

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16 181 "They are rare, but there are several".
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26 11 It is a rare captain who is not particular in his choice of a keleustes.
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27 91 It is a rare gambling house on Gor which does not contain certain aspects of the restaurant, tavern, and brothel.
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29 96 "This wine may not be Falarian," I said, "but Falarian, if it exists, is quite rare.
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40 15 "It is rare that one can find one who can read.
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41 20 Secondly, catapult engineers, "gunners," and such, are rare and highly paid.
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45 19 War cries, concerned to inspirit the assailant and intimidate the enemy, were half-hearted, rare, and isolated.
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