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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	17	Being literate and not too dull, and having read enough history to tell the Renaissance from the Industrial Revolution, I applied to several small American colleges for an instructorship in history—English history, of course.	10
1	56	I read, in a rather archaic English script inscribed on the envelope, two words—my name, Tarl Cabot.	10
1	148	With affection, Matthew Cabot I read and reread the letter and had become unnaturally calm.	10
3	176	"You must stand and be slain like a warrior!" Torm tucked a scroll, which he had been pretending to read, under his arm.	10
8	171	Her eyes widened questioningly, but she read only resolve in my face.	10
10	153	"Read it," I ordered.	10
10	155	"Read it," I said.	10
10	157	She read the simple legend aloud: "I am the property of Tarl of Bristol".	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	182	Tarl Cabot was gone! On the table in that small furnished apartment was the manuscript I had read through the long night—with an envelope fastened under the twine.	10
9	66	By this flickering light I could read the faded lettering on the door: Kal-da sold here.	10
9	167	"Ost," read the guardsman.	10
10	4	Yet the officer must have read defiance in my eyes because he signaled his men, and three spears dropped to threaten my breast.	10
13	32	Some seemed to be conversing among themselves, perhaps laying wagers of one sort or another, but most sat still on the stone benches, glum and silent in their gray robes, their thoughts not easily read.	10
15	172	Although that placid mask showed no emotion, I could read the despair in the body of the Tatrix.	10
21	263	But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master.	10
23	197	On many of the walls the legend "Sa'ng-Fori" could be read.	10
23	205	We could read the sullen defiance, the resolve, the capacity to kill in those eyes, bloodshot with loss of sleep, the desperate carriage of those gray-clad bodies, hungry and vicious with the strain of street fighting.	10

Book 3. (18 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	5	He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written wor...	10
2	51	One such read, "The mountains are empty.	10
3	59	If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a...	10
5	70	Instead I had read there only the Gorean numeral which would correspond to 708.	10
6	121	She looked up at me and I could not read the expression in her troubled eyes.	10
10	23	This coiled message rope then retains the odors indefinitely and when another Priest-King wishes to read the message he unrolls it slowly, scanning it serially with the jointed sensory appendages.	10
13	12	Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again.	10
15	52	"No," said Misk, "and observe I had to make my own mnemonic disks, devising a transducer to read the scent-tapes, which fortunately are easily available, and record their signals on blank receptor-plating, from there to be transformed into impulses for generating and regulating the appropriate neura...	10
16	106	"I then, by means of an Implanted Agent, unconscious of the message being read through him, instructed your father to write the letter which you found in the mountains on your native world".	10
19	67	I wished I had had time to investigate certain of Misk's scent-charts, but even if I had had the time, I might not have found helpful charts and, anyway, my translator scanning them could read only labels.	10
20	148	"Did you not read it?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
27	131	Well could I now read the signs of consternation in the rows of Priest-Kings, the startled antennae, the shifting of the supporting appendages, the sudden intense inclination of the head and body, the straining of the antennae toward the Platform of the Mother.	10
27	363	And from a thousand translators rang the message she cried out over those golden heads to the blank stone ceiling and walls of her chamber and I shall never forget it as it was in all the sorrow and the joy of her trembling dying magnificence; I and all could read it in the attitude of her body, the...	10
28	22	I read the mark on his tunic.	10
28	87	Before her head fell I had read in her eyes the silent, desperate plea of the rightless, helpless slave girl that her master, he who owns her, he who holds her chain, might be pleased to be kind to her.	10
28	95	Vika's shoulders shook as she knelt before me, but she dared not raise her head to read her fate in my eyes.	10
28	108	As I looked into the eyes of Vika I saw there the tears of relief and gratitude but I saw too the tears of another emotion, infinitely tender and vulnerable, which I could not read.	10
32	13	He pointed an excited foreleg at the scent-needle which I, of course, could not read.	10

Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
25	37	Even those who could read, or pretended to be able to, would affix their sign on the collar as well as their name, so that others who could not read could know to whom the slave belonged.	10
2	79	Few can read, though some can, perhaps having acquired the skill far from the wagons, perhaps from merchants or tradesmen.	10
2	175	At that time I could read only the top scar, the red, bright, fierce cordlike scar that was the Courage Scar.	10
3	71	They conferred again for a moment and then the warrior of the Kataii approached, a lithe, strong proud man, one in whose eyes I could read that he had never lost his saddle, nor turned from a foe.	10
5	8	I heard a haruspex singing between the wagons; for a piece of meat he would read the wind and the grass; for a cup of wine the stars and the flight of birds; for a fat-bellied dinner the liver of a sleen or slave.	10
5	120	Kamchak read the message of the drum and horn.	10
7	160	I was suddenly amused, for it occurred to me that neither of the Tuchuks could read.	10
7	161	"Read," said Kutaituchik.	10
7	164	I could read it, of course.	10
7	171	I read them aloud.	10
7	176	I hesitated to read the signature.	10
7	180	"You read Gorean well," he said.	10
7	181	I understood then that both men could read, though perhaps many of the Tuchuks could not.	10
7	229	Her fear could be read in her eyes, in the slight, tremulous movement of her lower lip.	10
8	523	Because she had annoyed me the kiss that was hers was that of master to a slave girl; yet was I patient because the kiss itself was not enough; I was not satisfied until, despite herself, I read in my arms her body's sudden, involuntary admission that I had conquered.	10
8	616	In her eyes, soft with tears, I read the timid concession that I was her master.	10
13	208	She could not, of course, read it.	10
16	237	The plan was, it seems, that the message would be read, and that the Tuchuks would then use the girl to find you and when they had they would kill you.	10
21	34	"Is it enough?" He looked at me, but I could read no expression on his face.	10
25	34	"They showed me," she said, "but I do not know—I cannot read!" What she said, of course, was true.	10
25	35	She could speak Gorean but she could not read it.	10
25	296	She could not even read the language.	10
27	33	He lifted the stone over his head and read fear in the eyes of the two men chained before him.	10
27	54	"They have been read well," said Hakimba.	10
27	153	It was hard to read his face.	10

Book 5. (21 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	182	Other Initiates wished to examine these omens, being read in the state of the bosk's liver, but Complicius Serenus, as though in terror, had cast the liver into the fire, presumably that such dark portents might be immediately destroyed.	10
5	235	Interestingly, Elizabeth learned to read Gorean in the Nest, and in less than an hour.	10
5	236	Learning that she could not read the language, Kusk volunteered to teach it to her.	10
5	240	"We found, after the Nest War," Kusk informed me, "that many of our ex-slaves could not read, which is not surprising since they had been bred in the Nest and it had not been generally thought important that they have that skill.	10
5	243	The neural dispositions which allow the human to read are of course the result of certain patterns of synaptic alignments, which are here produced without the time-consuming process of habit formation".	10
5	265	"Read it," said Kusk.	10
5	267	"I can't read Gorean".	10
5	272	"Read this sentence," I suggested.	10
5	273	"I can't read," she said.	10
5	275	"But I can't read," she said.	10
5	285	In a short time she will easily read the marks as words, and not as mere patterns associated with arbitrary sounds.	10
5	287	With some days of practice she will read Gorean as well as most Goreans; beyond this it is merely a question of interest and aptitude".	10
5	295	Even so, she would interrupt us frequently by saying, "Listen to this!" and read some passage which seemed particularly telling.	10
5	296	"There is controversy among Priest-Kings," Kusk remarked, "as to whether or not humans should be taught to read".	10
11	256	"I read of Gor," said Virginia.	10
11	259	"In the books of Tarl Cabot you have read of this world".	10
12	362	I read in their eyes, even those of Elizabeth, a sudden terror of the goad.	10
14	205	I read the collar aloud.	10
18	391	Soon, in the flickering light of the torch, I could read the Forty on the tiny metal plate over one of the cells.	10
20	480	His face was hard to read.	10
22	613	The scroll on the knife read, "I have sought him.	10

Book 6. (13 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	322	Ula's collar read 'I am the property of Clitus'; Thurnock had his slave's engraved 'Thura, slave of Thurnock'; I had two collars engraved, one for Midice and one for Telima; both read simply 'I belong to Bosk'.	10
5	204	In me she aroused agonies of desire but in her eyes I read that I was but the object of her amusement and contempt.	10
9	422	And she danced superbly for me, every fiber of her beautiful body straining to please me, her eyes, each instant, pleading, trying to read in mine her fate.	10
9	457	In the dim light she read the engraving.	10
9	459	"I did not know you could read," I said.	10
10	90	Being of the Scribes she could, of course, read and write.	10
10	101	It read, as I wished, 'I belong to Bosk'.	10
10	320	It read, printed in block letters: I would speak with you.	10
11	468	I could not read his heart.	10
11	524	I could not read him.	10
16	92	And I recalled, now puzzled again, that she, though a rence girl, had been able to read the lettering on the collar I had placed on her one night long ago.	10
18	389	I can read, you know".	10
18	391	"And I was taught many other things, too," said she, "when I could read, even to the second knowledge".	10

Book 7. (17 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	129	I wanted the house to myself, to be alone, to read and play records.	10
2	15	It had been locked on my throat! There was printing on the band, but I could not read it.	10
3	376	I could not read the inscription on the band, of course.	10
11	1253	And, of course, we came to understand, too, the movements of men, and how to read their interest and desire.	10
11	1260	They often do not know she is trained to read his desires, like an animal, from his body, and to serve them promptly, subtly and fervently.	10
12	388	I could not even read or write.	10
13	925	I could not read.	10
14	302	"Can you read?" she asked.	10
14	698	"Read the collar," said Rask of Treve.	10
14	700	"I cannot read".	10
14	705	I could not read it.	10
14	706	"Read it to her," said Rask of Treve to Ena.	10
16	489	You could read his name, that of my master, on my collar.	10
17	86	Often I could read his expressions and see there, in his eyes, in the sternness of a visage, the curl of a lip, that he would fight within himself so despicable a weakness.	10
17	112	I sometimes thought of many of the girls I had known on Earth, whose names I will omit, lest somehow, sometime, somewhere, they read these pages, who would surely look well, stripped and collared, kneeling before masters, their knees perforce widely spread, their tiny, lovely wrists confined behind ...	10
17	147	He could read his El-in-or easily.	10
17	295	She had been taught to read by another girl, also free, of the Scribes, a thin, brilliant girl, whose name was Luma, who handled much of the intricate business of the great house.	10

Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	315	"Please, Master! Please, Master!" When she looked up, she saw my eyes, and read in them the inflexibility of a Gorean male.	10
2	441	Again I read her eyes.	10
5	44	It read 'I belong to Bosk'.	10
5	82	I saw one of them, the fellow who had first seized her, read the note tied on its string about her neck.	10
11	799	She could read it in the tone of Marlenus, the swiftness with which he had moved, his insolent handling of the pieces, the vigor and arrogance of his carriage.	10
15	33	In my camp I had read the body and the expressions of Ilene.	10
15	728	I read the need in her eyes.	10
18	546	He rudely read her collar.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	94	In these it is rumored there are marvelous spells and mighty magics, particularly if read backward on certain feast days.	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
11	269	I could not read his expression.	10
16	27	"Can you read them?" I asked.	10
16	57	"Can you not read these runes?" I asked Ivar, again.	10
16	60	I knew him able to read some rune markings.	10
16	80	"There is one sign here, of course," said the Forkbeard, "which any fool might read".	10
16	83	Naturally, I could not read it.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	524	I read the message.	10
4	379	The look was hard to read, as it was piteous.	10
5	629	It was a face on which emotion could be easily read.	10
5	703	Beneath the light veil, as she had knelt before me, I had not been able to read the lettering on her collar, which would tell who owned her.	10
9	156	Anyone who can read printed Taharic will have no difficulty in following cursive Taharic.	10
14	134	Goreans read in this an indication as to who is master.	10
21	573	I could not read the numerals on the dials.	10
24	88	She might kneel beside it, timidly, hopefully, looking to the master, to read his will.	10
26	884	She could not read Taharic script.	10
26	885	I read it to her.	10

Book 11. (46 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	654	"We would not teach a verr or tarsk to read, they might say, so why should we teach a slave to read?" Some masters, on the other hand, make an actual point of seeing to it that their girls are kept illiterate.	10
2	276	These differences were subtle to me, but to those who could read them perhaps acutely significant.	10
2	326	Perhaps he had read the bodies of many women.	10
4	137	Were there to be no secrets between us? Were my defects, my helplessness, and the completeness of my surrender to him, to be broadcast so publicly? In his eyes I read that my questions were out of place.	10
4	138	In his eyes I read that I was slave.	10
4	723	I knelt before him, and in my eyes, doubtless, he could read my need.	10
4	725	Before he had turned away, again I had read in his eyes, as I had before, earlier in the evening, that I was only a meaningless slave to him.	10
4	931	The major reason for this is the steel collar, which, obdurately encircling her neck, read, promptly identifies her master and his city.	10
4	1083	He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b...	10
4	1194	Eta could not understand my words, but she could read my eyes, my looks, the movements of my body, my piteous needs.	10
5	521	In the face, surely, it is easier to read emotion and individuality than in a body.	10
9	2330	In their eyes I could read their distress.	10
12	229	Why should a slave be taught to read and write? Indeed, many slaves, particularly those harvested from the lower castes, are illiterate.	10
12	230	Many Goreans, particularly of the lower castes, cannot read or write.	10
12	646	"You cannot then read this?" he said, pointing to the printing on the object he held.	10
12	648	How ignorant, and stupid and foolish I felt! Of course I could not read Gorean.	10
12	650	Many masters are simply not concerned with whether their girls can read or not.	10
12	659	We are in all ways subject to the complete and perfect control of our masters, and we are totally at their mercy, always, whether we can read or not.	10
13	40	Sucha, who could read, told me it was 128.	10
13	140	He read from that paper which was now first upon the board, others being loose and thrown back.	10
14	40	That could be read, I understood, on the close-fitting steel collar I wore, a ten-hort collar.	10
14	205	She read the medallion of the stranger.	10
15	128	"I know you are illiterate," she said, "so I shall read it to you.	10
18	64	I wonder if those of Earth, should any of Earth ever read this, can begin to comprehend the categoricality of the bondage in which the Gorean slave girl is held.	10
18	118	It read "Take me, Masters".	10
20	58	"I can read," said he.	10
21	53	The tag, I had been told, read: "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
22	19	It read, "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
22	679	He read it aloud, "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
25	135	"I think that it is," said Bosk, "from the ease with which Belisarius read the message.	10
25	161	"Can you read the cipher?" he asked.	10
25	166	"It may be impossible to read?" asked Samos.	10
25	174	"Belisarius," said I, "said that others would not understand the message, even if they might read it, that it would be meaningless to them".	10
25	208	He called Bosk of Port Kar read from the paper before him: "Half-Ear Arrives," he said.	10
26	237	"Read further in the bill of enslavement," said he.	10
26	238	Her hands shaking she read further.	10
26	240	"Female," she read.	10
26	242	"The planet Earth," she read.	10
26	243	"Name?" "Elicia Nevins," she read.	10
26	253	"Slavery," she read.	10
26	497	"Read it," said he to her.	10
26	498	"I am the slave Elicia," she read.	10
28	230	I turned, and put my head to the side, that he might read the tiny number printed in lipstick beneath my left ear.	10
28	261	It would be easy to read in order to control her".	10
29	22	"Can you read?" he asked her.	10
29	24	"Read then what I have inscribed upon your body," said he.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	112	The message, easily printed, easily read, thus lies across several of the divisions in the wrapped silk.	10
2	113	When the silk is unwrapped, of course, the message disappears into a welter of scattered lines, the bits and parts of letters; the coherent message is replaced with a ribbon marked only by meaningless, unintelligible scraps of letters; to read the message, of course, one need only rewrap the ribbon ...	10
2	131	I read the message.	10
4	561	"Greetings to Tarl Cabot," had read the message on the scytale, "I await you at the world's end.	10
9	63	I read the look in his eyes.	10
11	492	Her face, vulnerable and delicate, would be easy to read.	10
12	52	Sometimes I read in her eyes a look that said, "I can resist you," and, at other times, a look that said, "I begin to sense and fear what you might do to me.	10
23	328	I thought it true what she had said, not only from her asseverations and the fact that I had come to be able to read with facility her face and body in the months I had owned her, but from the general circumstances of the situation.	10
24	69	It was difficult to read his face.	10
33	52	I read the collar of each.	10
35	793	It was filled with boxes, the markings on which I could not read.	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	885	"Can you read?" I asked her.	10
7	55	The legend had once read 'I am the girl of Kikombe'.	10
8	32	I had not, of course, had a chance to read it.	10
8	93	"I have read more than a hundred analyses of it," he said.	10
16	55	More impressive to me was Ayari's capacity to read the drums, though, I am told, this is not difficult for anyone who can speak the inland speech fluently.	10
16	221	Many askaris, too, rode the dhow, mostly officers, judging from the arrangements of their gold and feathers, for it is by these things, serving as insignia, that their rankings to those who could read them, as I could not, were made clear.	10
20	80	I had seen him look after the raft, and had read the cold rage, the fury like iron, in his body.	10
26	69	"Can you read the drums?" I asked.	10
32	916	It was prominent, and could be easily read.	10
49	1	There is to be War upon the River; Tende will not be Tied Tonight "Can you read the drums, Ayari?" I asked.	10
57	7	It read 'I am owned by Bosk of Port Kar'.	10

Book 14. (19 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	74	The collars had writing on them, incised in the steel, which I could not read.	10
5	18	I could not read the writing, for I was illiterate.	10
5	19	I had been told the writing read 'Return me for punishment to the House of Andronicus'.	10
13	162	I could not read her expression.	10
13	269	It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda.	10
13	317	It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda.	10
13	926	It was not easy to read her eyes.	10
14	60	I could not read her expression.	10
16	162	It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda.	10
16	185	I could not read the note, of course, for I was illiterate in Gorean.	10
18	38	She read the note in fury, and then crumpled it, and cast it to the side.	10
18	66	"'My sweet friend and compatriot, Lady Florence of Vonda,'" read Kenneth, "'thank you very much for the use of your lovely silk slave, Jason.	10
19	176	Kenneth took the note and read it, frowning.	10
19	268	"Master has, I trust," she said, acidly, "read the note which has accompanied me".	10
19	269	Kenneth removed the note from his tunic, where he had placed it, and read it again, to himself, with apparent care.	10
19	400	"You cannot read," he said.	10
19	405	Besides, it is said, why should a slave know how to read? "I do not think our little friend, Taphris," said Kenneth, "has fallen in the favor of the Mistress".	10
19	412	I gathered that Kenneth would have been willing to let me read it, had I been able to do so.	10
30	33	On the other hand, the master's name may usually be read, if one wishes, from the slave's collar.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	383	"Surely you have read it?" she asked.	10
4	387	"I cannot read Gorean".	10
6	28	Eventually, after several days of uneasy encampments, the haruspexes of Port Olni, Ti and Ar, meeting on a truce ground, had determined, by taking the auspices, read from the liver and entrails of slaughtered verr, that it was propitious for both armies to withdraw.	10
23	74	I read the unmistakable need in her eyes.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	562	The future is hard to read".	10
19	584	She regarded me, trying to read me.	10
19	593	It was interesting to read her eyes.	10
21	812	"How could you expect an Earth girl, one literate, well-read, informed, educated, a student in a sophisticated discipline, and so on, to admit even to herself, let alone to another, that she is miserable and frustrated, and lonely, and sexually and emotionally starved, and fearfully unhappy—a...	10

Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	640	It had apparently found my attempt to read its behavioral cues amusing.	10
1	1101	"No sign," I said, "which was read by the mounted hunters".	10
1	1310	"You could not read them if we displayed them," said Kog.	10
3	181	These symbols of, and expressions of, nature, are not hard to read.	10
14	1249	"Can you read it?" I asked.	10
14	1253	"I have read it," he said.	10
15	8	"Yes," said Grunt, "but its intent is not hostile, as I read it.	10
15	24	"As I read the smoke," he said, "it is saying that a small party of white men is moving eastward.	10
15	107	In this way she may be able to better read his moods, and desires, and, accordingly, be able the better to serve him, in the process perhaps saving herself a few cuffings and beatings, such as might be garnered by a less alert, more slothful, laxer girl.	10
15	114	For example, one might, in her eyes, read desire, and thus order her to perform an act which she, even though a slave, might not have dared to beg to perform, or, say, by looking into her eyes, one might determine if she has been up to something or has neglected something to which she should have at...	10

Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	754	Masters read slaves, and slaves know that they are read.	10
48	25	Bloketu tried to read in the eyes of Cuwignaka, and Iwoso tried to read in the eyes of Hci, what was to be her fate.	10
2	53	Thus, if she is embonded, her master will have acquired a slave who can read and write.	10
2	56	They may, of course, have recourse to scribes, some of whom are itinerant, or traveling merchants, usually peddlers, who, for a modest fee, or in the case of the merchants, or peddlers, sometimes for free, for good will, will read letters for them, write letters, and so on.	10
2	58	I would suppose that almost any Gorean, even of the Peasants, who wishes to learn to read or write could do so, but many find these skills of little interest or use.	10
2	67	Whereas Earth girls are swiftly taught to understand and speak Gorean, they are seldom, if ever, taught to read and write it.	10
2	68	Slaves do not need to know how to read and write.	10
12	581	"Have you read the Prition of Clearchus of Cos?" she said.	10
12	586	"You have read it?" she asked.	10
40	714	She looked up at him, shuddering, tormented by conflicting emotions, tears staining her cheeks, gratitude warring with terror in her eyes—trembling, trying to read her fate in his eyes—looked up at him, from her knees, naked, helpless, fearing, bound, she now a claimed slave, he now he...	10

Book 19. (52 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	228	"Can you read the legend posted over my head?" "Cannot you read?" she asked.	10
3	402	I could not read the writing.	10
4	540	The head is usually kept raised; this precludes the necessity of a specific command to lift the head; in the head-lifted position she has no choice but to bare her facial beauty to the viewer; too, her least expression may be read; too, of course, she can see who is in the room with her and is thus ...	10
5	54	Excerpts had been read to me, with criticism, by Ligurious.	10
5	62	I had not been taught to read Gorean.	10
9	79	He knew I could not read.	10
13	73	She had tried to read in his countenance, in that brief, wild instant, before she was removed from the dais, her fate, but she had been unable to do so.	10
15	197	"Read her collar".	10
16	243	"I cannot read," I said.	10
16	244	"Most free women can read," he said.	10
16	304	You cannot even read.	10
17	24	I had seen it before it had been put up but I, being illiterate, could not read it.	10
17	95	No one had told me what the sign said, and I could not read it, being illiterate in Gorean.	10
17	99	I would try to get her to read the legend for me.	10
17	107	No one has read to me the legend posted over my head.	10
17	188	"Can you read it?" I wheedled.	10
17	192	"Please read it for little Lita".	10
17	209	"And if I read that legend for you," he said, "I would be serving you, would I not?" "Yes, Master," I said.	10
17	212	"Then," he said, "you do not want me to read the legend for you".	10
17	217	If I had not tried to be so clever, if I had not tried to trick him, he probably would have read the legend for me.	10
17	242	"I wanted her to read the sign posted over my head," I said.	10
17	245	"You did not read it to me.	10
17	268	"It did not occur to me that you could not read".	10
18	4	He could doubtless read it.	10
18	176	"Can you read the sign that was posted over my head, please?" "Yes," said he.	10
23	88	"Can you read?" he asked.	10
24	116	"Can you read?" he asked.	10
26	228	In this fashion the beauty of her face is well revealed, and her subtlest expressions can be well read, and, on her part, she is more aware of her surroundings, cognitively and emotionally, and is thus better prepared to serve.	10
26	485	"I have never been taught to read".	10
27	98	Read him.	10
30	240	I did not know the streets by name in this area and even had I been able to read the signs, there were none written here on the corners of the buildings.	10
30	274	He read my collar.	10
30	648	He read my collar.	10
30	704	Anyone would know it who read my collar.	10
31	42	"But you cannot read?" "No, Master".	10
31	629	"'I am the property of Miles of Argentum,'" he read.	10
32	308	Perhaps so, young woman who might read this, if you are in your heart a slave, and are thus a slave.	10
36	71	"Read it," he said, indicating the legend which, in small, graceful letters, was incised in the metal.	10
36	72	"I cannot read it, Master," I said.	10
36	73	"I have never been taught to read".	10
36	77	I had not been taught to read in Corcyrus, probably in order to better keep the politics of the city from me, and in order to guard against my better understanding my position there.	10
36	83	Some men feel that if a woman is taught to read and write, particularly after she has been made a slave, she may come to think that she is important.	10
36	1573	"Read me my collar," I begged, "please".	10
36	1575	"You should have read it for yourself".	10
36	1577	"You know I cannot read".	10
36	1581	It is not necessary for you to be able to read your collar.	10
36	1582	All that is necessary, from your point of view, is that it is locked on you, that you cannot remove it, and that it can be read by free men".	10
36	1583	"Are you going to teach me to read?" I asked.	10
36	1588	"So why should you be taught to read?" he asked.	10
36	1593	"Many men," I said, "enjoy having a girl who can read.	10
36	1597	Whether I would learn to read or not was not up to me.	10
36	1610	I did not know whether or not I would be taught to read.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	590	"I scarcely ever read all the provisions of the licenses," said Boots.	10
6	101	Her features, in all their sensitivity and beauty, so intimate, personal and private to her, so revelatory of her deepest and most secret thoughts, feelings and emotions, are now exposed to public view, to be looked upon, and read, by whomsoever may be pleased to do so.	10
7	28	It read, "If you find me, return me to Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
12	431	Torm, my old friend, the Scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to the left, but, clearly, I could both read a...	10

Book 21. (18 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	93	"I trust there will be no necessity for me to read such a letter," he said, "as this would be difficult, as I cannot read".	10
11	51	"You have not read it," he pointed out.	10
11	52	"I have read others of his," I said.	10
11	54	Indeed, I had already read three others this very night.	10
11	198	"You see, I have just, this evening, read some of them.	10
11	215	She could read and write.	10
11	358	We would, similarly, in deference to her feelings, keep Feiqa and Tula under the blanket for a time, lest their eyes suddenly, inadvertently, meet hers, and women read in one another's eyes truths which might be deeper than speech.	10
13	20	"I cannot read," said Mincon.	10
14	96	"Alars do not read," said Boabissia, proudly.	10
16	83	"You may read it upon my breast".	10
16	84	"As you may read mine upon mine," said the daughter.	10
16	1543	This sign read, "I was not fully pleasing to my master of the night.	10
16	1845	It was not difficult to read.	10
19	371	Poetry, after all, or most poetry, is presumably meant to be heard, not read.	10
25	433	"Can you not read it in my eyes, Master?" she asked.	10
25	639	The name of that one, I read, was 'Chelto'.	10
25	731	Here the card read 'Mina'.	10
25	1637	I turned the bottle so that she might read the label.	10

Book 22. (35 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	88	"You have probably read a great deal," he said.	10
2	89	"I have read a little," I said, uncertainly, uneasily.	10
2	90	"Perhaps you are the sort of woman who has read more than she has lived," he said.	10
2	138	"Read it," he said.	10
2	139	"'I am a slave,'" I read.	10
3	497	"Have you read them?" "Yes," I said.	10
4	190	"But I see through your tiny tricks!" "Why do you think I am a modern woman, in some sense you despise," I asked, "because I can speak clearly, because I can think, because I have read a book? Do you not think that true women, loving, needful women, can do these things? Do you not think that what yo...	10
6	458	The Gorean girls had tried to read one another's collars, but the markings on them had apparently been in coded symbols, incomprehensible even to them.	10
6	460	Though I was learning to speak Gorean, incidentally, I could not read it.	10
8	60	I could not read it.	10
8	320	"Can you read?" asked a man, he who had said he was Teibar.	10
13	282	He could read me like a book, or a naked, frightened slave.	10
13	874	When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death or become in...	10
14	57	I was now more sure than ever that he wanted to read my body.	10
16	89	Tupita, of course, like many slaves, and like myself, could not read or write.	10
17	153	I could not read.	10
17	402	It was doubtless on my collar, but, obviously, without a mirror, I could not read the collar when it was locked on my neck.	10
17	403	Too, even had I had a mirror, I could not read.	10
19	152	On this disk, so that it could be read from the front, was a large, cursive "Kef," for "Kajira," a larger version of the same letter adorning my thigh.	10
20	121	"Who was to read the message?" "He who was designated by my master's men," I said.	10
20	134	He unrolled it, and read it.	10
20	143	The message read, I had been told, "You have been captured".	10
24	267	I tried to read his intent, but could not.	10
24	544	She could not read or write, but she was a beautiful, highly intelligent woman.	10
27	148	Too, could she any longer even dare to do so? Suppose others came to suspect, or even to know! What if they could read it somehow in her eyes, or body? It is a great crime for a slave to pretend to be a free woman.	10
29	1622	I cannot read Gorean.	10
31	245	That could be read upon my collar.	10
32	253	To be sure, such things may be read on collars.	10
33	155	"Can you read women, as well?" I asked.	10
33	157	"And what do you read in me?" I asked.	10
33	160	"I read that you are an exquisite female slave," he said, "who needs only a strong master to achieve the total perfections of her femininity".	10
33	163	I was so embarrassed! It was as though he could read my innermost thoughts and needs.	10
33	272	From even that first day in the library when I had knelt at his feet, the first time I had knelt at the feet of a man, retrieving a book, and had opened it, finding a message, which, at his command, I had read aloud, the message—I am a slave.	10
34	193	"But who could read it, here?" I asked.	10
34	557	One tends to favor women with a rich, inner life, who read, who think and feel.	10

Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	17	Such signs are not untypical of Gorean hostelries, as many Goreans, particularly those of the lower castes, cannot read.	10
2	259	I turned one over and, in the next flash of lightning, read the numbers on its back.	10
2	264	I had read this amount on the back of the oilcloth rectangle.	10
11	287	"'The bearer of this cylinder, who calls himself Tarl, of Port Kar,'" read Aemilianus, "'is a Cosian spy.	10
15	306	"Wretch!" "It is hard to read a woman who is veiled," I said.	10
15	423	"Do you think looting soldiers would have stopped to read your letter?" I asked.	10
20	32	Too, anyone can read a calendar.	10
20	345	I had read there, in archaic script, the name 'Tina'.	10
21	1076	This is in accord with their status as domestic animals, and, too, it enables their slightest, most fleeting expressions to be read by their masters.	10
21	1535	I wondered what the warnings of Calliodorus, if Aemilianus had read him aright, might have been about.	10

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	696	It was hard to read her eyes.	10
19	1774	"You can read, can you not?" I said.	10
43	191	Perhaps it was before one such as he that she, in her most secret, exciting and beautiful dreams, knelt in her chains, as in his dreams, too, perhaps it was one such as she who, in appropriate chains, knelt before him, looking up at him, to read her fate in his eyes.	10
47	206	Many of the ruffians probably could not read.	10

Book 25. (47 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	942	Goreans, on the other hand, often accept, rather uncritically, in my mind, that the reader can actually read thoughts, or usually read them.	10
12	289	"I have read it!" "You, a free girl, have read it?" I asked.	10
22	624	Some warriors, as I have indicated earlier, seem to feel it is somewhat undignified for them to know how to read, or, at least, how to read well, perhaps because that sort of thing is more in the line of, say, the scribes.	10
3	936	This reader probably read coins.	10
3	949	Similarly, on Gor, as on Earth, there is a clientele, particularly in uncertain, troubled times, for those who claim to be able to read the future, to tell fortunes, and such.	10
6	33	"Read to me," begged a fellow looking up at the boards.	10
6	34	"I cannot read.	10
6	35	What does it say?" "'Greetings from Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, to the people of Glorious Ar,'" read a man, rather slowly, pointing to letters with his fingers, which led me to believe that his literacy was not likely to be much advanced over that of the other.	10
6	36	To be sure, I myself did not read Gorean fluently, as the alternate lines change direction.	10
6	45	"'Know, people of Glorious Ar,'" the man continued to read, "'that Cos is your friend.	10
6	48	He then continued to read.	10
6	62	"Read on," said a man.	10
6	101	"Read further," demanded a man.	10
7	4	It was now two days after we had read the first postings of the conciliatory message of Lurius of Jad on the public boards.	10
8	104	He read Gorean fluently.	10
9	87	"Lady Tuta Thassolonia," read a scribe.	10
9	266	"Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, Lady of Ar," read the scribe.	10
12	256	"Have you read," I asked, "the Manuals of the Pens of Mira, Leonora's Compendium, the Songs of Dina, or Hargon's The Nature and Arts of the Female Slave?" "No, Master," she said, eagerly.	10
12	258	Sometimes they are read aloud in training sessions by a scribe, a whip master in attendance.	10
12	292	"Does your father know you have read it?" I asked.	10
14	24	Marcus could read them much more rapidly than I.	10
14	414	"Read their collars," I said.	10
14	426	"Read the collars," said another fellow.	10
14	427	Names were read, and domiciles.	10
14	433	I did not really wish to make it clear to the men about that I did not read Gorean as well as I might.	10
15	73	"The fact that Seremides, if I read him aright, set such a trap for the Delta Brigade, supposedly with the delta records, indicates if nothing else that he is quite serious in his suspicions of the delta veterans, and that he may act against them".	10
16	85	On the other hand perhaps they read the crowd better than I.	10
18	455	"To a scribe to read the public boards!" "No!" said Marcus.	10
20	333	Its legend read, "RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER".	10
20	339	Its legend read, "RETURN ME TO APPANIUS OF AR".	10
21	73	They read my collar.	10
21	82	In this way, she could not have uncapped the tube and read the message.	10
21	144	She read the letter in her hands over and over, seemingly avidly.	10
21	186	"'Can you read?' she asked.	10
21	188	"'But you have not read it?' "'No, Mistress,' I said.	10
21	280	'RETURN ME TO APPANIUS OF AR' she read.	10
21	583	"RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER" read the legend on the collar.	10
22	610	"Read the note," ordered one of the fellows.	10
22	612	He could, apparently, read.	10
22	615	Too, it would have been difficult for him, I supposed, as he was a well-known actor, to have learned parts without being able to read.	10
22	616	To be sure, some actors do, having the parts read to them, and they memorizing them from the hearing of the lines.	10
22	617	This is particularly the case with women, as most parts of women on the Gorean stage, other than those in high theater, which tend to be acted by boys or men, are acted by female slaves, many of whom cannot read.	10
22	619	Because there are many Goreans who cannot read, many stores, shops, and such, will utilize various signs and devices to identify their place of business.	10
22	621	I have known extremely intelligent men on Gor, incidentally, who could not read.	10
22	622	Illiteracy, or, more kindly, an inability to read and write, is not taken on Gor as a mark of stupidity.	10
24	7	She was now in the collar that read "RETURN ME TO TARL AT THE INSULA OF TORBON".	10
27	14	"You can read?" I asked.	10

Book 26. (59 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	109	Why should he be asking me these things? Of course I could not read! Could he not simply look upon my lineaments, and my silk, and know that? Of course some of the flowers could read.	10
19	369	This is not to deny, of course, the expected and appropriate meetings of eyes in thousands of contexts and times, as in attempting to read one's fate in the eyes of the master, in examining them to learn if one is in favor or disfavor, in meeting them when commanded to do so, as when he examines us ...	10
4	559	I could not read his expression.	10
5	18	Many on this world, you see, cannot read.	10
7	86	"Can you read this?" he asked.	10
7	88	"You cannot read?" he said.	10
7	91	I had not been taught to read or write any of its languages.	10
7	114	I wanted to read his eyes.	10
7	401	How piteously I looked up at him, and how well, I am sure, he read my helplessness.	10
7	1085	"Do you think I have not read your papers?" she asked.	10
7	1087	I could not read them, of course.	10
7	1094	Aynur, it seemed, could read.	10
7	1160	I tried desperately to read her eyes.	10
7	1164	I could still not read her eyes.	10
8	266	I am writing this in English, of course, for I can neither read nor write Gorean.	10
8	972	It was not even so much that I feared I might be challenged, later, on the matter, and my reactions, my expressions, my body, in their subtlest nuances and movements, read, to determine whether or not I was lying.	10
10	50	But, too, even more typical of this world, one could read in his eyes the absence of vacillation and confusion, the undivided nature of his character, the firmness, simplicity and unilaterality of his will.	10
11	145	But I could not read the expression of the occupant of the thronelike chair.	10
11	309	Indeed, he could doubtless read women such as myself with ease.	10
11	516	A typical collar might read, "My name is Tula.	10
11	612	"Read it!" said Dorna, holding the collar before me.	10
11	658	I could not read his eyes.	10
11	886	I knew I had papers but, of course, I could not read them.	10
11	913	Could they so read me? And could there be more? Could I be more helplessly theirs than I was now? And what were "slave fires"? I dared not speculate.	10
11	1135	"The faces of slaves should be bared," he said, "that their tiniest expressions may be read".	10
12	137	But nature cannot read.	10
12	139	She is content to let others read her, if they dare.	10
12	809	Indeed, I could not even read.	10
13	623	He had not, it seemed, read the collar.	10
13	625	But he had not, it seemed, read the collar.	10
13	627	After all, who cares what might be the name of a dog or horse? But, too, perhaps he could not read! "Yes," I said.	10
13	632	"You cannot read?" "No," I said.	10
13	785	He had read my collar.	10
13	786	He, then, could read.	10
13	891	Rather, on our backs, if our masters desire, our subtlest nuances of expression, our helplessness, our fear, our joy, our yielding, our vulnerability, what we hope for, what we beg for, may be read! They may with their triumphant gaze ravish our helplessly bared features, surveying the myriad subtle...	10
13	895	Could he read in me my signs of growing helplessness? I was refined, I was delicate, I was sensitive! How could this be being done to me? But then I recalled that I was a slave.	10
13	974	She could read then.	10
13	975	I could not read.	10
13	1202	This left only the tiny lamp on the table, recently lit, where the monster read.	10
13	1213	He moved the scroll a little, rolling shut what he had read, unrolling, opening, a new vista of ideas.	10
13	1510	"It was shown to me," I said, "but I cannot read.	10
13	1512	"Even if you could read," he said, "you could not see it now, for it is on your collar".	10
14	904	"You cannot read?" she asked.	10
14	1474	She was a free woman! I could well conjecture her dismay, her discomfort, her fear, her wild sensations—she, a free female, being held so close to him, she half stripped, he fully dressed, so powerful, so masculine! "'Tuta'," he read.	10
14	1757	"And he ordered me to him, that my collar might be read!" "He probably wanted to know your name," I said.	10
14	1760	"He read your collar first!" she said.	10
14	1764	Indeed, I suspect he read my collar to learn more of you, for example, you would be the slave Tuta who was in the keeping of the state slave, Janice, and so on".	10
16	191	Were they not, too, men, and thus such as before whom it was appropriate that I present myself, hoping for their approbation? In the eyes of the musicians I read something that I had not expected to find, that they were not displeased with the sight of the slave before them.	10
19	503	The pertinent information, displayed in this manner, so conveniently and prominently, is easily read.	10
19	650	What do they mean?" "They are to be read by the pen masters," said the girl.	10
19	1031	"You cannot read the numbers on my body, truly, can you?" she asked.	10
22	3	Seldom now he read at the table.	10
26	29	"You cannot read," she said.	10
26	30	"I could not read the orders," I said, "but I saw them, and the seals".	10
34	57	Who had first seen me, who had marked me out, who had first decided this? Who had speculated how I might look in a collar, who had conjectured my lineaments, who had read my body, and my heart? "The Turian opening?" asked the pit master.	10
41	148	He had wanted to know if I could read a certain word, which I could not, and if I could recognize a certain sign.	10
42	64	It was hard to read their eyes.	10
44	102	Desperately I looked at him, trying to read his eyes.	10
45	156	It was difficult to read his eyes, his visage.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	90	She cannot read, or write, any of its languages.	10
4	178	Her various allusions, and subtle references, to various matters, performers, and composers, demonstrating how well informed, and how well read, she was, seemed to be instantly understood, and appreciated, by the young man.	10
10	110	She looked at him, trying to read in his visage some glimmering of emotion, some small sign of his feelings.	10
11	581	There had been nothing of this, surely, in the courses she had taught, in the texts she had read.	10
11	660	She soon learns, or suffers for the failure to do so, to read the whims and moods of the master.	10
12	242	She adds this, it occurring to her that some who read this might feel that she was overly delicate, or insufficiently explicit or informative, at this point.	10
15	120	More often the discipline or punishment is not to permit the girl to look into the eyes of the master, which increases her apprehension and, of course, severely limits her capacity to read his moods.	10
15	132	If one cannot look into the eyes of a slave, how can one well read her, how can one adequately master her? To be sure, much can be gained from body language.	10
15	153	"Master?" "You have not been taught to read, have you?" he asked.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	496	Some Warriors take pride in their inability to read, regarding that skill as unworthy of them, as being more appropriate to record keepers, tradesmen, clerks, and such, and some who can read take pains to conceal the fact.	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	274	One advantage to having a slave who cannot read is that one may use the girl to carry messages amongst friends or associates, messages which she cannot read.	10
51	130	Would you like to try to read it?" "I cannot read, Mistress," I said.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	35	As I could not read, the roster was read to me.	10
50	401	Would one teach a sleen, a kaiila, a verr, to read? Similarly, such slaves may be used to carry messages they cannot read.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	244	Did it know me? Did I know it? Had we something to do with one another? I think it had read more than apprehension, or fear, in my countenance, as it might have read in the countenance of Lita.	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	136	Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea...	10
37	127	What do scribes know about baking or metal work? Indeed, some Goreans who can read, particularly amongst the Warriors, feign an inability to read, considering it embarrassing or unseemly for their caste.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	61	Perhaps she could not read but pretended to read, to get the candy".	10