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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 126 Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor.
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15 114 Hitherto I had worn the ring almost arrogantly, but now it seemed to me that discretion, to alter a saying, was the better part of pride.
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15 222 So saying, he picked a piece, the Ubar's Consort, or Ubara, from the board and dropped it into the game box.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 48 "I'm sorry," he kept saying, "Forgive me! Forgive me, Old Man!" We looked at one another.
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4 97 Was the sleen not familiar with that saying? I shook my head, to clear it of the wild thoughts.
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6 50 There is a saying on Gor that the laws of a city extend no further than its walls.
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8 35 Then, if the seller is sufficiently outraged, he might give back the buyer the coins, including most of those he had agreed to pay, saying, with mock contrition, "I do not wish to cheat you".
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15 26 I think that this is a true saying.
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18 180 It was a saying we had developed in the mines.
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24 250 I did not listen to their protests but saying no more began my torchlit journey through the now-darkened labyrinth of the palace corridors.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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8 121 If they were it was surprising that tarnsmen from all the cities of Gor would not have descended on the place, as the saying goes, to try chain luck.
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15 82 "It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...
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25 121 A Gorean saying has it that they are brothers of the wind, and how could one expect such a creature to survive confinement? Like its brother the wind when the tarn is not free it has no choice but to die.
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26 189 "I did not think of what I was saying," she said.
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26 212 "Is this," I asked, "how you chained men to your slave ring?" "Oh Cabot," she moaned, "Cabot—" Saying nothing further I stepped outside.
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26 278 Gorean thinking on this matter tends to be expressed by the saying that a slave girl grows bold if her lips are allowed to touch the name of her master.
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34 132 It was an old Warrior saying.
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34 182 He turned and strode off, saying no more, Torm's chest and head sticking out behind from under his arm.
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Book 4. (34 results) Nomads of Gor

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25 391 "You think," I said, "that I am saying that a woman is nothing—that is not it—I am saying she is marvelous, but that she becomes truly herself and magnificent only after the surrenders of love".
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2 89 I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ...
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3 14 I could not make out what they were saying, but an argument of some sort was in progress.
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7 158 Saying nothing he handed it back to Kamchak, who seemed to study it with great care, and then, to my amazement, turned it sideways and then upside down.
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8 617 "I do not know what we need with all these slaves," Elizabeth Cardwell was saying.
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9 15 There is a saying on Gor, "Gold has no caste".
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9 16 It is a saying of which the merchants are fond.
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9 154 "I can arrange that she is chosen for the games," Saphrar was saying, "but it must be worth my while".
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9 156 "My gold can determine that," Saphrar was saying, "and further determine that she is ill defended".
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9 168 "Behold my ward," he was saying, indicating the approaching girl.
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9 186 "The sphere is actually not of much value," Saphrar was saying, "it is not truly of gold—but only appears so".
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9 188 "I would only wish it as a curiosity," Saphrar was saying.
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9 189 "I must think on the matter," Kamchak was saying, not taking his eyes from Aphris of Turia.
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9 190 "I know where it is," Saphrar was saying, his lips pulled back, revealing the golden canines, "I could send men for it".
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9 198 "It is in the wagon of Kutaituchik," Saphrar was saying.
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9 436 "You recall, of course," Kamchak was saying, "that I am an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples and am entitled to the courtesies of your city".
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9 466 "No, my dear," Saphrar was saying to the girl, "you must not expect satisfaction for this frightful injury which has been wrought upon you—you must not even think of the games—you must forget this unpleasant evening—you must try not to think of the stories that will be told of y...
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9 492 "Have no fear, Saphrar of Turia," Kamras was saying, "I shall slay the Tuchuk sleen—and I shall do so slowly".
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10 355 "I would like to take a look at this one," Kamchak was saying, jerking a thumb in the direction of Aphris of Turia.
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10 447 "Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be—the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bola—perhaps the quiva?" "The sword," said Kamras.
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11 48 "It is—or was—true that you were the richest woman in all Turia," Saphrar was saying, "but your riches are not yours to manage—but mine—not, that is, until you would have reached your majority, some days from now I believe".
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12 76 "Perhaps I should not go," Elizabeth was saying, "I would feel too sorry for the poor girl".
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13 58 "You lied to me," he said, "saying you went to fetch water".
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16 250 It was a Turian saying.
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20 95 "This is the girl," Harold was saying.
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21 288 "I suppose while the bread is baking," he was saying, "there is little to do but stand about and improve one's swordplay".
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21 290 "I had a friend," Harold was saying, "whose name was Tarl Cabot.
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21 297 "There is a certain resemblance between yourself and my friend Tarl Cabot," Harold was saying, "save that your swordplay is decidedly inferior to his.
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24 61 "Most of the people," Harold was saying, "are out of the city now".
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25 201 "We shall, of course," Elizabeth was saying, "have to make some different arrangements about the wagon".
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25 211 "A wall of some sort," she was saying.
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26 23 "My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others".
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26 312 "It smells," Harold was saying.
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26 339 Then, saying no more, Kamchak, the rest of us following, left the room, guiding ourselves by the distant, frustrated howls of disappointed sleen.
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Book 5. (19 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 64 The man did not greet him, nor did Kuurus lift his hand to the man, palm inward, saying "Tal".
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5 277 Slowly, numbly, she began to make sounds, saying what came into her head.
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5 295 Even so, she would interrupt us frequently by saying, "Listen to this!" and read some passage which seemed particularly telling.
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11 404 "I promise you, Ho-Tu," Flaminius was saying, "that each of these girls, properly trained, will provide a master with the most exquisite of delights".
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12 127 "I favor the Greens," I said, saying the first thing that came into my mind.
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13 1 Mip "I do not see how it could have happened," Nela was saying, bending over me as I lay sleepily on my stomach on the heavy striped piece of toweling, about the size of a blanket, her strong, dutiful hands rubbing the oils of the bath into my body.
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13 20 "Probably tomorrow," Nela was saying, "an offer of ransom will be made".
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16 139 A sly look came over her face and in an instant, saying "Yes, Master," she was gone.
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16 199 "I only regret," Ho-Sorl was saying to me, "that I never saw Melipolus of Cos ride".
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17 127 The Warrior, followed by the Tarn Keeper, was moving down the line of bound girls, lifting their heads, taking their final wages for the sport, saying "Kajuralia," to each and moving to the next.
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18 300 It was Cernus saying to me, outside the Cell for Special Captures, "You, Killer, would not make a Player".
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19 312 So saying, he himself stripped her to the waist before the crowd.
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19 475 "Before she is delivered to Samos," Cernus was saying, "I think I will have her returned to the house and use her.
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21 103 "Take dear Vancius," she was saying, "bind his wrists and ankles, and put him in a slave hood, one with a gag.
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21 398 I could make nothing of what they were saying.
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22 80 I approached slowly, holding my hands open, saying nothing.
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24 107 In the halls we passed many individuals, who would normally, in Gorean fashion, lift the right hand, palm inward, saying "Tal," which greeting, in turn, we returned.
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24 198 The girl trembled, saying nothing.
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24 462 "I say because I know him," said Hup, "though I might die from the saying of it, Marlenus is grieved.
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 31 Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...
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2 33 This was a paraphrase of a saying common on Gor, given by passing strangers to those through whose territories they would travel: Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more, and that but for the time it takes to pass.
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5 104 The girls looked at one another, saying nothing, but laughing and poking one another.
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8 761 "Yes," she was saying, "not a bad catch".
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9 293 When I entered she dropped her head, saying "Greetings, my Master's Captain".
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10 278 I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free.
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11 422 "I suspect," Samos was saying, "that Cos and Tyros are implicated in the attempted coup of the House of Sevarius".
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11 530 "It should be one," Samos was saying, "who has the rank of captain, and who is a member of the council itself, that the authenticity of the offer shall thus be made manifest".
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11 537 "And," Samos was saying, "it must be one who is not afraid to speak, one who is a worthy representative of the council".
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11 539 It seemed to me he was saying very little now.
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16 386 "What is it they are saying?" asked a man.
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18 50 I supposed that in time to come men might, on this holiday, show their wounds to slaves and wondering children, saying to them, "These I had in Se'Kara".
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18 252 "So," Fish was saying to Vina, "you sneaked away from the keep".
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18 726 "I never thought," Tab was saying, "that I would find a free woman of interest".
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Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

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15 436 Sometimes Verna would say, "Drink," and I would pour wine into her goblet, saying, "Yes, Mistress," and sometimes Rask of Treve would command me, saying "Drink," and I would then, similarly, serve him, saying "Yes, Master".
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3 105 I understood nothing of what he was saying.
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7 70 A Gorean saying has it that only a fool would buy a woman clothed.
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7 345 I soon found myself saying things in Gorean without thinking about it.
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7 532 I gathered that it was a Gorean saying.
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8 1137 The tall girl then went to Ute and kicked her as well, again saying "Kajira!" Lana whimpered, but Ute made no sound.
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11 1005 On the other hand, there is a Gorean saying, not voiced I suppose before free women, but heard among men, that all women are slaves, and it is merely that not all of them are in collars.
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12 497 She looked at me, saying nothing.
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13 1071 I recalled I had knelt before him, as a slave girl, and he had forced me to do it twice, saying "Buy me, Master".
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13 1104 In expensive shopping districts I had enjoyed, as the saying goes, "turning many heads".
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15 764 "To begin," he was saying, "you will receive one stroke for each letter of the word 'Liar', then one stroke for each letter of the word 'Thief', and then a stroke for each letter of the word 'Traitress'.
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16 439 It was a saying of a Gorean slave girl, to express her feelings.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 126 There is a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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8 1 We Wait in the Camp of Verna There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers.
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8 2 There is no such saying pertaining to panther girls.
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9 274 "There is a saying among panther girls," she said, "that any girl who permits herself to fall to men desires in her heart to be their slave".
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11 967 I think it is a true saying.
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Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 196 But the Goreans have a saying, which came to me in the darkness, in the hall.
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1 198 I do not fully understand this saying.
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1 203 The saying may also be interpreted as encouraging one to act, to behave, to do, and then, in the acting, the doing, the behaving, to learn.
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1 211 How should one live? In the codes of the warriors, there is a saying: "Be strong, and do as you will.
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17 25 It had been carried to the Inlet of Green Cliffs, to Thorstein Camp, from Ax Glacier to Einar's Skerry; it had been carried to the high farms, to the lakes, to the coast; it had been carried on foot and by swift ship; a thousand arrows, each touched to the arrow of Torvald, had been carried, and whe...
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22 38 I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i...
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Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 148 It was a Gorean saying.
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9 99 "Do you understand what you are saying?" asked Hassan.
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18 24 It was a saying of the Tahari.
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24 263 "What are you saying?" she asked.
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24 477 "Have you considered the nature of what you are saying?" I asked.
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24 494 "You were hardly aware of what you were saying?" "Yes," she said, "I was hardly aware of it.
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Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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24 152 "We have a saying in Port Kar, a saying pertaining to free women," said the man.
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3 585 His hand left my throat, and he, and the others, saying nothing more, returned to the fire, to continue their meal.
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3 612 Next to me, she knelt before my captor; she put one bowl down before me; then, holding the other bowl, she handed it to my captor; one of the men pulled my head up by the hair, so I could see clearly what was being done; my captor took the bowl of gruel from Eta, and then, saying nothing, handed it ...
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5 153 He who can bend the longbow, a peasant saying has it, cannot be slave.
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5 155 I suppose if they could bend the bow, the saying would not exist or would be altered.
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8 281 "I must leave before noon," Clitus Vitellius was saying.
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8 283 "Let us discuss the matter," Thurnus was saying.
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9 600 I dimly remember Thurnus's hand on the back of my neck and Sandal Thong's saying, "Do not kill her, Thurnus.
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9 1522 "Neither a plow, nor a bosk, nor a girl may one man take from another, saving with the owner's saying of it," quoted Thurnus.
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9 1701 "A good staff," said Thurnus, "must be one with which one can thrust," and, saying this, looking at one young man, he drove the staff, like a spear into the ribs of another, "and slice," added Thurnus, who then smote the first fellow, whose attention was now on his struck fellow, along the side of t...
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12 313 "It is a saying of the warriors," said Borchoff.
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18 76 And there is a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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26 108 "I do not understand a word you are saying," she cried.
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27 417 "The Salerian Confederation," Clitus Vitellius was saying, "is a threat to the security of Ar".
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28 341 Surely not! "I would not wish you to take a loss on her," he was saying to the auctioneer.
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Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 361 Indeed, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that any woman who relishes a compliment is in her heart a slave girl.
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2 242 "Put to their pleasure?" "Yes," I said, "and perhaps you are woman enough to understand what I am saying".
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2 464 "But why are you saying this?" "Do you not see?" I asked him.
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2 637 If a reference should be unclear the expression is qualified, as by saying, "ice mountain".
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3 808 "Do you think we own even the chains we wear?" "I do not understand what you are saying!" said the girl, angrily, at the end of the line.
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4 413 On what would have been his twenty-second move Scormus of Ar, saying nothing, rose to his feet.
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15 652 "That is a Gorean saying," I said.
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15 900 "That is a Gorean saying," I said.
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26 38 Imnak was shouting to me, I think, but I could not make out what he might be saying.
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37 58 "It is a Gorean saying," I said.
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Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 542 "Do you begin to see what I am saying to you?" I asked.
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5 757 "What are you saying?" I asked her, in Gorean, as though I could not understand her.
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5 778 "I am not a slave!" "What are you saying?" I asked her, in Gorean.
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12 425 "What are you saying!" she cried.
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18 282 "That is a saying in the north," I said.
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18 284 "But it is a saying that is also known east of Schendi".
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23 186 "It is a saying of Schendi," he said.
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27 244 Would it not be madness to let such beauties, kneeling before you, out of your collar? A Gorean saying, of the second knowledge, has it that a steel collar locked on the throat of an Earth woman is perfect.
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34 602 "Do you begin to understand what I am saying?" I asked.
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57 162 There is a saying in Gorean, that the chains of a slave girl are heaviest in Port Kar.
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57 165 The saying is probably motivated not so much by an objective analysis of the treatment of enslaved women in that city as by the fear and distrust which Port Kar has historically precipitated in the hearts of its enemies.
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 805 "For saying that I might be a slave," she said.
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1 1077 "I did not know what I was saying".
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4 309 They had understood nothing of what we had been saying, of course, for they did not speak English.
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16 38 This saying, however, it might be pointed out, as Goreans recognize, is not strictly true.
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16 195 I did not wish to be kicked or beaten, or have a tag wired to my collar, which would be seen by my Mistress, saying perhaps 'This slave was impudent.
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21 128 It was a Gorean saying.
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30 72 A Gorean saying has it that a leashed slave is a hot slave.
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Book 15. (18 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 283 "Our forces have already moved north," one man was saying.
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3 288 "It is dangerous for merchant caravans," a man was saying.
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3 309 Then, saying nothing more, he brushed past me and entered the tent.
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4 496 Those who have owned one find little difficulty in understanding this saying.
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4 503 It is like saying that she is no longer interesting enough, or desirable enough, to be kept in her collar.
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7 23 "Victoria has refused the tribute," one of them was saying.
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7 56 "Now that is what I call really hot meat," a man was saying.
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10 31 I scarcely understood what she was saying.
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10 33 "What are you saying?" I asked.
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10 36 "What are you saying?" I asked.
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10 157 The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ...
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10 177 As a little Gorean saying has it—whip in hand, girl at feet.
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10 242 "You were saying?" I asked.
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10 243 "I was saying," she said, "that I have no money, and that I have no Home Stone.
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21 14 Another saying pertinent in these matters, which is occasionally heard, is "picking fruit from the slave orchards of Earth".
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22 158 Do all women belong in collars? The Goreans have a saying that all women are slaves, only that some are not yet in collars.
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24 603 So saying, attentively and lasciviously, as a bound slave she addressed herself to my pleasures.
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24 688 That is a saying of Goreans.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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11 175 "A pan of water, a crust of bread, a collar and a camisk—these are what every woman needs—and perhaps not the camisk," is a saying of Tharna.
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20 329 "There must be levies of men and ships, from the signatory towns," Glyco was saying to Callimachus, "rotations of men, and perhaps, too, of ships.
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20 881 "Such movements, of course," Glyco was saying, "are instinctual in a woman".
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20 1061 "He who ties a woman owns her," is a Gorean saying.
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Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

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2 150 Curiosity is not becoming in a Kajira is a common Gorean saying.
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2 226 "Another possibility," Samos was saying, "would be a loan to the Sa-Tarna merchants, at a reduced rate of interest.
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11 218 I saw that they understood, only too well, what Ginger was saying.
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13 859 Her brand was still smoking, as the saying goes.
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13 1367 Do you understand what I am saying?" "Yes, Master," she said, "that I must learn, in general, how to be pleasing to men".
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14 249 I, myself, though I had acquired a few words of Dust Leg, had little more idea, specifically, of what the youth was saying than the girl did.
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14 269 Similarly there is a secret saying, among Gorean men, that no female is a woman, who has not been made a slave.
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15 24 "As I read the smoke," he said, "it is saying that a small party of white men is moving eastward.
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17 611 It cannot be refuted for, saying nothing, nothing can be produced, even in theory, which could count against it.
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19 556 In this context he was not saying her name so much as reminding her of what she was.
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Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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9 375 "And, if you do not mind my saying so, you have been somewhat blatant about your charms".
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19 198 "What are you saying?" I asked, alarmed.
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40 100 "That, too, is a Gorean saying, is it not?" asked Pumpkin.
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46 75 "What are you saying?" asked Iwoso.
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Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 473 I could hear them talking outside, but I could not make out what they were saying.
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6 669 "It is only a saying," he said.
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6 670 "Another such saying is that she who identifies with slaves is a slave".
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6 796 "I do not understand what you are saying," I said.
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8 95 How humiliating! The Goreans have a saying, "There are only two kinds of women, slaves—and slaves".
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8 355 Do you understand all that I am saying, fully and clearly, Renata?" She looked up at him, tears in her eyes.
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15 146 "I must see him again," the girl in front of me was saying.
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15 203 Now, what were you saying?" "It was only one pastry, Master," said the girl.
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26 236 Indeed, one of the fearful things that can occur to her, if she is captured or enslaved, is that she is likely to be "face-stripped," as the saying is, that the delicacy of her facial beauty will be revealed, that her features will be disrobed, literally exposed to public view.
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28 26 There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.
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28 27 This is a saying, however, which I suspect was invented by the caste of musicians, to protect itself from bondage.
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33 645 There is a Gorean saying that only a fool buys a woman clothed.
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36 655 A well-curved slave, as the saying goes, is to be preferred to a well-carved spoon.
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36 1308 "I know that you may not believe this," I said, "and I do not wish to be struck for saying it, but I love you".
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36 1618 Doubtless the saying would not otherwise have gained such wide currency".
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Book 20. (18 results) Players of Gor

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1 667 As the saying is, slave fires have been lit in their bellies.
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2 1225 "What are you saying?" asked Samos, aghast.
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6 238 "What is he saying?" asked a man.
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6 239 "He is saying that she is more than we deserve," growled a fellow.
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6 338 In a sense what Boots was saying was correct.
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6 806 "You are just saying that because you are a girl," he said.
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6 1190 "I did not know we had any sleen," Lecchio was saying to Chino.
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7 394 "Perhaps even three times, and backwards," Boots was saying.
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9 343 "Surely you are familiar with the saying".
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10 110 "Do you recall saying that?" asked Boots.
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10 851 A Gorean saying has it that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, but, of course, kajirae, as any member of their wonderful, beautiful sex, are extremely, delightfully inquisitive creatures.
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16 87 There is a saying on Gor, "No musician can be a stranger".
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16 88 This saying is sometimes, too, applied to members of the caste of players.
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16 89 The saying is somewhat difficult to translate into English, for in Gorean, as not in English, the same word is commonly used for both "stranger" and "enemy".
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16 90 When one understands that, of course, it is easier to understand the saying in its full meaning.
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16 963 Belnar, saying nothing, put three more coins on the table.
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21 359 "I did not know Petrucchio was wanted in Ar," Lecchio was saying, in character.
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21 427 "Beguile him! Please him! Encourage him to dalliance! Buy time! Do you want us both to be killed?" "What are you saying to her?" I inquired, getting up.
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Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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7 88 She stopped saying whatever it was she was saying.
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7 86 I could not make out what she was saying.
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8 170 Boabissia, saying nothing, crawled into the back of the wagon.
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13 291 And there is a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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16 419 This is an Alar way, I took it, of saying that it had not been used lately.
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25 174 I doubted that she had been foolish, so perhaps she had been, on some level, reckless or careless, perhaps reluctant to take certain precautions, had perhaps, as the saying is, "courted the collar".
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26 2030 A Gorean saying has it that a woman gagged is already half a slave.
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27 47 Indeed, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that that only a fool buys a woman clothed.
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Book 22. (17 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 222 It was here, in this place, over there to my left, where I had found myself kneeling before a man, where I had found myself saying aloud, "I am a slave".
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3 702 "Perhaps you remember saying that that world was gone," he said.
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3 729 "What are you saying?" I gasped.
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4 64 In my heart I knew that what he was saying, incredible though it might seem, despite the startling enormity of it, was true.
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4 377 "I do not understand what you are saying," I said.
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5 272 I could not understand, exactly, what he was saying.
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6 209 I could not make out what she was saying.
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6 246 I could not make out all she was saying but its import was surely uncomplimentary.
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9 58 On the other hand I suspected that the very existence of such a saying witnessed in its way the widespread nature of exactly such a charming feature, or weakness.
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10 439 I did not really understand what he was saying.
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11 1507 If a command needs to be repeated, as the saying goes, the girl needs to be punished.
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11 1677 I supposed that was what I should be saying.
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19 38 Where would the dwellers of cities be without us?" This was a way of saying, in the parlance of the caste, that the utilities and workings of metal were essential for a high civilization.
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25 183 I understood very little of what he was saying.
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26 207 "Perhaps, earlier in the evening," Aulus was saying, "before you are ready for her in your tent, you might put her before your men".
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28 117 "What are you both saying?" asked Mina.
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29 182 There is a Gorean saying that only Priest-Kings, outlaws and slaves lack Home Stones.
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 492 There is a Gorean saying to the effect that among women there are only slaves who have masters and slaves who do not have masters.
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6 735 "What are you saying?" asked the fellow, wheeling about.
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11 61 There is a saying that to look forward to a whipping is to be twice whipped.
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21 1011 A saying of girls is, "Without the whip I am not his slave, and he is not my master".
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21 1012 The saying, of course, is false; if he is legally her master then he is legally her master.
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21 1294 How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a la...
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24 663 There is a saying to the effect then, as one might anticipate, that one should not buy the first girl on the chain.
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24 664 Where the saying is rampant one supposes that the troublesome or less passionate girl is then put second on the chain.
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24 665 Some think the saying is motivated simply by the fact that the first girl is often regarded as being overpriced.
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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28 698 The saying "Modesty is not permitted to slave girls," is a saying then which is usually reserved for particular occasions, as, for example, if a girl might exhibit distress at being stripped for her sale, or, say, be tempted to balk at performing floor movements naked for business acquaintances of h...
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2 205 "Why are you saying these things?" she asked, lifting her head, red-eyed.
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27 368 "Forced to appear on a public stage scandalously clad, or naked," she asked, "dancing, singing, saying lines, being struck with paddles, and such, your master all the time in the wings with a whip?" "If you like," I said.
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27 440 "What are you saying?" she asked, twisting in the sand.
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28 96 There was something to what these fellows were saying.
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28 343 And the Lady Ina, even though she was not a slave, was yet, as a Gorean saying has it, a juicy pudding.
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28 695 Even slaves girls, incidentally, are often concerned about their modesty, for example, as I have suggested, not wishing to be sent shopping naked, and so on, even though they are not entitled to it, and, indeed, by some masters, who hold to the strict interpretation of the saying "Modesty is not per...
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28 696 Most masters, however, understanding the saying more generously, as referring to strictures which may be imposed upon occasion, at the master's will, rather than strictures which must obtain constantly, regardless of his will, enjoy permitting a slave girl a certain amount of modesty.
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28 699 This, too, incidentally, is the legal understanding of the saying, as any other interpretation would be inconsistent with the master's absolute ownership of the slave.
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36 183 My words, of course, were a play on a common Gorean saying, that curiosity is not becoming in a Kajira.
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Book 25. (12 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 569 A Gorean saying came to mind, that the free woman is a riddle, the answer to which is the collar.
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6 25 There is a Gorean saying that only a fool buys a woman clothed.
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8 394 One had sneered "Slave!" to Phoebe, to which Phoebe had put down her head, saying "Yes, Mistress".
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8 794 "I love you, Master," was saying Phoebe, looking up at him, "totally and helplessly".
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8 795 "And I," he was saying, brushing back hair from her forehead, "fear that I might find myself growing fond of you".
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9 493 "No, my dear," Talena was saying to another woman on the platform.
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10 451 "I do not even understand what you are saying," said Marcus.
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19 1101 It is a common Gorean saying.
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21 519 Would she then seem so outstanding? Or might not other girls, here and there, more appeal to one man or another?" "I see what Master is saying," said Lavinia.
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23 368 To be sure, there was more to what Boots was saying than might be evident at first sight.
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25 521 This was a play, of course, on the common Gorean saying that curiosity is not becoming in a female slave, or kajira.
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28 34 And then, too, sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple, because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of water, a grain of sand...
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Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

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8 293 A saying, a saying of men, of course, has it that all women are slaves, only that some are not yet in the collar.
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6 28 "Can she understand what we are saying?" asked another.
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8 912 And on this world there is a well-known saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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10 882 I did not really understand, fully, the import of what he was saying but I gathered enough to understand that he within, or he on the other side of that door, he before whom I might soon expect to appear, was of some importance in this place.
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11 881 It was a saying.
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11 1226 One might even have said, as one had, as the saying has it, that my brand was still smoking.
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12 960 "What are you saying there?" asked the slurring voice, almost like that of a beast.
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14 1572 One might, of course, merely be told that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, which, I had learned, is something of a saying on this world, but, more likely, one might be cuffed or beaten, and then one might have one's hands bound behind one and one's question written on, say, the interior of one...
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14 1818 "There is a saying," she said.
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14 1820 "An interesting saying," I said.
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19 135 Too, the nature of the strike had been intended as an insult, saying, so to speak, "You must understand that your women are ours, whether slave or free, if we deign to take them.
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29 943 That function goes without saying.
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45 201 I understood very little of what he was saying.
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45 229 This, too, this saying, I had learned in the pens.
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46 332 "I do not understand what master is saying," I said.
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46 452 "That is a saying of warriors," he said.
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Book 27. (23 results) Prize of Gor

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20 212 She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic.
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4 368 "I do not understand what you are saying," whispered the older woman, frightened.
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8 173 She was sure that she figured somehow in what he was saying.
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11 23 Is that not what many vociferous proclaimers of her former ideology maintained that wives were, anyway, slaves? How silly that was, what infantile semantic slight of hand! Is there no better way to abolish the family and surrender children to the centrally designed, and centrally directed, condition...
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12 241 The saying is given more fully, commonly, as "open for the uses of men".
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12 277 Too, there is a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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15 285 She began to speak, but could scarcely understand what she was saying, so confused, so overwrought she was.
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15 536 "And so," said he, thoughtfully, as though pondering some matter, "what would be the loss of a coin or two more?" "I do not understand what you are saying, Master," whispered the slave.
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16 477 She had been, as the saying was, opened for the uses of men.
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16 563 She recalled a saying she had heard in the house, that beneath the clothes of every woman there is to be found the body of a naked slave.
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16 846 As the saying is, if one wants a man to be more of a man one should be more of a woman.
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18 95 "I fear them so!" Saying nothing he had dragged her to her feet, she half bent over, his hand in her hair, twisted there, painfully, cruelly, and she then, bent over, thus controlled, this being a common slave leading position, was hurried stumbling out onto the platform, to its very edge, where she...
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20 89 In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors,...
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22 142 That went without saying.
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22 168 It is a common belief on Gor that all free females desire in their secret hearts to be the slaves of masters; there is a saying, in every free female there lurks a slave, a slave awaiting her liberation, her freedom, her collar.
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24 754 The more intelligent she is, of course, the better slave she is likely to make; I assume that that is obvious; she is likely to be more aware of the subtlest and almost unspoken desires of her master; she is less likely to make errors which might displease him; and she is likely to be not only hot, ...
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25 121 There is, after all, a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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25 1112 Perhaps, on the other hand, she is, subconsciously presumably, as the saying is, "courting the collar".
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27 258 As is well known, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira.
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27 570 It ejects pellets, stones, small knives, or however you can understand this! Try to understand what I am saying! Please! It is dangerous! It can kill! It is like lightning! Like lightning! I know! Please believe me, Masters!" "Shall I demonstrate?" asked Mirus.
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27 1106 I have heard that there is a saying amongst one of the many Gorean peoples, in this case the "Red Savages of the Barrens," as they are spoken of, to the effect that an enemy afoot is an enemy dead.
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28 360 So saying, Portus Canio took back the bit of fused, shapeless metal.
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30 646 There is a saying that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, and yet how well the masters understand our incessant and insatiable curiosity! But sometimes I think my master keeps much from me not simply because he enjoys keeping me, tormentingly, appropriately, as Goreans see it, in "slave ignoranc...
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Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

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1 958 A common Gorean saying has it that all women are slaves.
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2 86 And is the human smile not, in its way, similar? Is it not a baring of the teeth, a way of saying, I could bite you, and tear you, but I will not, because I like you? Is it not in its way a threat behavior revoked, withdrawn, as a sign of good will, perhaps even affection? The long, dark tongue of t...
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4 29 Cabot had stood, to greet him, lifting his hand, and saying, "Tal".
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5 201 "I didn't think! I didn't know what I was saying!" "Slaves may not lie," said Cabot.
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5 203 You knew well what you were saying.
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26 220 This is, one gathers, a saying.
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29 133 "Are all women slaves?" "The Goreans have a saying," he said, "that all women are indeed slaves, only that some are in collars and some are not".
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36 46 A saying in the Gorean north, seemingly related, is to speak of a defeated force as having been given over to the feasting of jards.
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45 56 Indeed, it may have been a bit shorter than even that of the slave, which was already scandalously brief, or, as the saying is, "slave short," and, in addition, its light fabric, unshaped and loose on her body, was split at both hips, to the waist.
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73 209 A well-known Gorean saying has it that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira.
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75 49 If you understand the purport of what I am saying, nod affirmatively".
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78 5 This is easily understood, as I understand it, by any human male who has, as the saying is, "partaken of collar meat".
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Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 230 It was a saying.
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2 238 When they are stripped, if ashore, before embarking, before returning to port, it is determined whether or not they are, as the saying is, "slave beautiful".
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2 272 Too, in the codes there is a saying that he who strikes first lives to strike second.
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4 271 In her distress I do not think she even understood what I was saying.
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5 342 She was now, as the saying is, more familiar with her collar.
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5 520 Indeed, there is a saying that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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10 470 "What are you saying!" cried Miss Wentworth.
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16 188 There is a saying that a man conquers with the sword, the slave with a kiss.
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17 20 Once collared, as the saying is, always a slave.
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22 382 There is a Gorean saying that the female slave is the warrior's prize, and toy.
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22 545 "Be my master!" "You do not know what you are saying!" he exclaimed.
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25 140 There is a saying among warriors that he who attacks a shadow plays with death.
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28 104 They are, of course, to be understood as, and treated as, the animals they are, that goes without saying, but this does not mean that one should not be concerned for their health, comfort, and safety.
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38 242 In Gorean the saying would literally translate as not all strangers are strangers.
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

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4 192 "That is a saying, is it not?" asked Lord Nishida.
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5 65 Is it not a saying of warriors that one does not sell one's blade, that steel is to be prized above gold? And honor above life? How came then such a man here, if he were such a man, on this ship, amidst this unlikely, motley crew? Had he betrayed the codes? But it is difficult to forget the codes.
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12 602 "As the slave I am!" "Do you know what you are saying?" I asked.
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21 798 A saying has it, bare the face, bare the woman.
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21 799 Another well-known saying is, remove the veil of a free woman and look upon the face of a slave.
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34 66 One is reminded of the saying that a free woman is but a slave without a collar.
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36 54 Captain Nakamura glanced to me, politely, but the stranger encouraged him, saying that he might speak in my presence.
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Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 888 "A choice item," the auctioneer was saying.
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8 940 "I am a free woman, a free woman!" "What is it that she is saying?" asked the auctioneer.
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8 1119 I was from Earth! But then I recalled the saying, that only a fool buys a woman clothed.
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8 1274 "Twenty-five, twenty-five, thirty," was saying the auctioneer.
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8 1277 "Thirty, thirty-five," he was saying.
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8 2003 "But, Master," I said, "is the testimony of slaves in courts not taken under torture, that they will not dare to lie?" "It would be better," said Menon, "for the testimony of free women to be taken under torture, for they are famous for saying whatever pleases them".
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10 180 There is a Gorean saying that only a fool frees a slave girl, and I suppose it is true.
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10 267 There is a common Gorean saying that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira.
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10 891 A Gorean saying, seldom heard in the presence of free women, has it that beneath the robes of every free woman there is a naked slave.
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21 12 She had perhaps been testing him, to see, as the saying is, how many links of chain were permitted to her, which is an unwise venture with a Gorean male.
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29 249 "Perhaps there should be another saying, too," he said, "that curiosity in many places and at many times can be extremely dangerous, to anyone".
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44 89 "What are you saying?" I asked.
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52 129 There is a saying, of course, that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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2 74 She had then completed the small ceremony, as instructed, saying "La kajira ".
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8 352 Were they exploiting their freedom, or testing its limits? Did they not know that they were women, and in the presence of men? Perhaps, as the saying is, they were "courting the collar".
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23 59 This is untrue, of course, and we treasure whatever scraps of cloth we may be permitted, but the saying has a point, which is that the tunic proclaims the woman a slave.
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43 377 "You dallied too long in saying 'Master'," said Aeson.
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46 36 I think women understand what I am saying.
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52 385 I could not make out what they were saying.
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54 38 "That is a saying, is it not?" I said.
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Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

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31 227 I was reminded of a saying I had heard long ago.
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37 7 "That is a saying?" said Haruki.
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37 8 "A very old saying," I said.
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37 22 "That is the saying," I said.
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37 23 "And it is an old saying," said Haruki.
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37 24 "A very old saying," I said.
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55 117 On the continent there is a familiar saying, that only a fool frees a slave girl.
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61 857 Surely you know the saying.
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61 1175 There is a Gorean saying that a woman learns her sex only in a collar.
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Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 242 "I think that what you are saying is false," he said.
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26 22 A saying I have heard seems germane here, "the laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos".
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32 118 He regarded my master, carefully, saying nothing.
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50 14 "What is she saying?" I asked.
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50 67 "Is that what she is saying?" I asked.
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53 52 The Goreans have a saying, "Let those who fear the high bridges not walk them".
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54 121 "Surely, dear Kurik," said Lord Grendel, "you have been following what I have been saying".
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56 170 "You are familiar with the saying, I take it," said Kurik, "that many a track leads into the den of the larl but few lead out".
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56 171 "Yes," said Lord Grendel, "but let me add to the saying, that those tracks that lead out may be awash with the blood of the larl".
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69 144 It was a Gorean saying.
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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4 212 I did not fully understand what she was saying.
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11 67 There is a saying that in Port Kar the chains of a slave girl are heaviest.
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11 401 I had the sense that he thought about what he was saying when he spoke, despite the trivial, hazy ambiance of the location, that of such a party, and the accepted customs of such gatherings.
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29 9 It is not a matter of saying; it is a matter of seeing.
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32 62 I understood very little of what he was saying.
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43 200 That was a common Gorean saying.
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Book 36. (13 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 178 "What are you saying?" he asked, bewildered.
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6 189 "I understand the sort of thing you are saying," I said.
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19 147 It was a saying.
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36 92 "What are you saying?" cried Margot.
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41 155 "How could three wells have been fouled?" "As the saying has it," I said, "there is an ost within the walls".
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46 76 "Beware of saying that before a free woman, particularly one of high caste," I said.
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52 71 It was a Gorean saying, not unlike many others.
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54 128 There is a Gorean saying, "Once a slave, always a slave".
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54 129 This is a saying to which Gorean free women, in their hatred of female slaves and in their contempt for them, interestingly, also subscribe.
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54 132 Another saying, whispered about by slaves, is that they would not trade their collars and the freedom they know in their collars for a ubarate.
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59 228 I am not Bosk of Port Kar! I am Bombastico, an actor, an actor!" "What is he saying?" asked a man.
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61 3 "In saying nothing I shall speak volumes.
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62 141 "What are you saying?" asked Archelaos.
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