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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	62	"That tarn," he said, "was bred for you, specially selected from the best broods of the finest of our war tarns.	10
16	42	Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	28	Though on Gor the free maiden is by custom expected to see her future companion only after her parents have selected him, it is common knowledge that he is often a youth she has met in the marketplace.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	77	The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	86	It seemed to me, from what I had learned, that there was no particular reason why Elizabeth Cardwell, and not one of Earth's countless others, had been selected to wear the message collar.	10
9	155	"How can you determine that she is selected?" Kamchak was asking.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	26	It is a great mark of prestige among slave girls to be selected for sale from the great block in the Curulean, and girls tend to compete viciously among themselves for this honor.	10
11	52	"It should be," said Ho-Tu, "they have been selected with great care".	10
11	159	"They have been selected to train with the girl Vella, who keeps your quarters".	10
12	28	The Warriors who flanked the Administrator and High Initiate, incidentally, were Taurentians, members of the palace guard, an elite corps of swordsmen and bowmen, carefully selected, specially trained, independent of the general military organizations of the city.	10
15	134	To one side there was a set of mats for Musicians, who almost invariably were present at the sessions, for even the exercises of the girls, which were carefully selected and frequently performed, are done to music; against one wall were several bars, also used in exercise, not unlike a training room...	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	309	I had already, to a great extent, selected crews.	10
11	597	"And," I said, "as escort, I will require five ram-ships from the arsenal, of medium or heavy class, to be captained and crewed by men selected by myself".	10
14	78	It was this latter alternative, rather expensive, which the men of Cos and Tyros had apparently, almost invariably, selected.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	344	I noted that girls who responded similarly were invariably selected, sometimes over their more beautiful sisters in bondage.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	118	"Then, selected men will enter the forest, but as though they did not know the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle.	10
12	13	Human structures are group structures, and closed groups, with senses of their own best interest, yet open enough and intelligent enough to accept a certain amount, carefully selected, of new and driving blood, regulate society.	10
12	158	It was for that reason that I had selected her, from amongst the others, for my pleasure.	10
16	324	I had selected one and taken it to my camp.	10
19	37	Further, they might then have shielded their work with slaves, or, perhaps, used selected wood from the front of the palisade.	10
22	705	It is certain, of course, that certain genetic endowments have been selected for by environmental considerations, and, in this sense, the environment is a significant factor.	10
22	719	It is not unlikely that men, over the generations, have selected out for breeding, for marriage, women of certain sorts.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	305	I suppose the Thing-Field might, partly, have been selected for the aspect of this mountain.	10
16	234	He selected two spears, handing me one.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	379	The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...	10
2	86	Elaborate random selection devices, utilizing coins and sticks, and formulas, were sometimes used by merchants to assure that applying tenders and drovers were selected, if they were not known, by chance.	10
10	378	One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...	10
11	195	Evolution has selected for such a congruence.	10
12	113	I was pleased that I had been selected for the night.	10
12	124	The slave raiders of the Kurii, the Others, as nearly as I could determine, selected, among other things, for high intelligence in their victims.	10
21	5	I realized then that he had been pointing to his destination, whatever it might be, which lay within the dune country, as though I might know what it was, but that the route which he wisely selected would parallel the dune country, until he reached a given point, at which point he would strike out o...	10
24	67	She is now, for the first time in her life, free to accept and embrace her deepest and truest identity, her ancient selected-for biological identity, as old as the raid, the hunt in the forest, the cave and leather thongs, the decree of nature, the fruit of evolution's wisdom, that of the lover, cap...	10
24	836	Does it seem likely to you that this disposition could have been selected for in isolation?" She looked at me, kneeling, not answering.	10
26	1250	Several times, she, with Zaya, another slave, had waited upon me, nude, in collars, and bangles, serving the black wine and sugars, in what had been the kasbah of Tarna, while I had enjoyed the pleasures of one or more slaves, selected, as I wished, from the slave stock of the Kasbah, but usually Ta...	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	364	Surely the same evolution which has selected for the fangs of the lion and the speed of the gazelle has selected as well for the disposition to hunt and the disposition to flight, that has selected for the strength of the male and the weakness of the female has selected as well for the disposition t...	10
3	269	In one form there a hundred young men and a hundred young women of one city, the women selected for their beauty, enter the ring in competition with a hundred young men and a hundred young women of another city, similarly selected.	10
2	1092	Evolution, in its case, has, among other things, apparently selected for tenacity.	10
5	363	For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and...	10
9	2179	"In a man's own hut," said he, "he must be master, even though he has selected out for himself a companion.	10
14	260	Two of the girls cried out with pleasure, to be selected.	10
22	361	In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a...	10

Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	446	How different such women are, I thought, hard, cruel, calculating, cunning, ambitious operatives, from the more typical women brought to Gor, soft, supine, vulnerable, unconscious, naked, in slave capsules, an identification anklet locked on their left ankle, women selected with different objectives...	10
3	530	How barbaric that an ear should be pierced that it may wear an adornment selected by a master.	10
3	596	Already, despite her Earth background, so astonishingly and incomprehensibly other than her current reality, she clearly suspected the truth, that they had been selected for embondment, and that they were perhaps even now slaves—literally that—even now, slaves.	10
15	94	Before, when I had won in the bone gambling, the dropping of the tiny figures of bone and ivory, I had, of intent, selected blond Thimble, whom I would, in the tenure of her service to me, name 'Barbara', putting that name on her, though then of course as a slave name.	10
21	23	For one thing they are generally short and heavy, a body configuration which tends to conserve heat; for another there are serological differences between them and even other red races of Gor; these serological differences, presumably selected for in the course of generations, doubtless play some ro...	10
25	108	The lay of the land, the winds, the stars, help him with directions, as well as, of course, his own keenly developed sense of orientation, probably selected for in the harsh environment.	10
31	104	In our history, as in yours, larger brain cases have been selected for".	10
34	71	This trait, doubtless, has been selected for in Kur evolution.	10
35	608	I wondered if she realized that women of her paleness and beauty had, in effect, like certain other types, been sexually selected for, over generations, even on her native world, a world which seldom consciously thought of itself as a world breeding slaves.	10
38	39	Tied by the necks to the left-hand, rear upright of the sled of Drusus, clad in furs, were the two beauties he had selected and chained in the complex of the Kurii.	10

Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	441	"Even their Kur agents who are female," said Samos, "seem to have been selected for their potential for ultimate slavery in mind, such as the slaves Pepita, Elicia, and Arlene".	10
13	21	He might question the option selected by the master, as a woman is more lovely, say, on her knees, or supine, or prone, but he would be unlikely, without some provocation, to lash the slave.	10
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.	10
20	35	They were a matched set, selected to set off the dark beauty of Tende, daughter of Aibu, high chieftain of the Ukungu villages.	10
32	361	Evolution has selected for such women.	10
34	652	It seems reasonably likely that facility in acquiring speech, which would have enormous survival value, has been selected for.	10
34	653	Similarly, a woman's marvelous adaptability to erotic dance may possibly have been selected for.	10
34	664	Values need not be something one somehow mysteriously "knows," a result of having forgotten the conditioning process by means of which they were instilled, but could be something chosen, something selected as instruments by means of which to improve human life.	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	104	"The expression is a 'signal word,' a word selected for its emotive connotation, not its cognitive meaning.	10
2	316	What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...	10
7	578	But into those definitions did not enter, as I now recognize, hints of a nature formed by a harsh evolution, remarks pertaining to genetic dispositions selected for in times when the meadows were bestrode by the prowling tread of the saber-toothed tiger and the hills rang with the trumpeting of mast...	10
22	403	I have little doubt but what these dispositions and talents have been naturally and sexually selected for in the course of evolution, such women being more often spared and sought.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	339	"It is not just any woman on my world," she said, "who is brought here to serve masters, her betters! Surely we are selected for interest, and beauty.	10
23	339	One of them could discover later that she had been selected to be sent to my chambers for the evening.	10
24	198	It is a great honor for me that you have selected me out, from the others, to be sent to your chambers this night, to serve you".	10

Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	168	Again, and again, hunting as single marine predators, the Tais and her sisters, prowling the outskirts of that confused, sluggish city of wood, almost at will, almost fastidiously, selected their victims.	10
8	463	"Clearly you were selected on the basis of your slave responsiveness, as well as your beauty," I said.	10
16	145	Too I knew that the eel seldom takes its food out of the water, that such strikes, in all probability, had not been selected for.	10
18	92	The slave girl, subject to male domination, surrendered to service and love, branded and collared, serving and kneeling, is, under the institutional enhancements of a civilization, fixing her condition upon her with uncompromising clarity, in effect, the primitive woman, the biological woman, the se...	10
19	1260	Lola had selected, however, one of the loveliest.	10
20	623	They have been selected for bondage.	10
20	1235	"I have selected you as my second in command," he said.	10
20	1607	I wondered if many of the Earth girls brought to Gor realized the careful screening to which they had been subjected, and the care with which they had been selected.	10
20	1610	The criteria by means of which this stock is selected and supplied, of course, are diverse, for it is well known that men differ in their tastes in women, and enjoy selecting slaves to their particular taste.	10
20	1612	There is a plenitude of such lovely animals available in the Gorean markets, then, selected with different tastes and interests in mind.	10
21	727	"Callimachus has selected you to be his second in command, in the forces of the Vosk League," she said.	10

Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	346	I had little doubt that they had been selected, ultimately, with the collar in mind, that they might, when they had served their purposes, be reduced to bondage.	10
1	403	These things have been selected for in their bloody species.	10
2	354	The feminine type of male silk slave, incidentally, for better or for worse, is seldom selected for breeding purposes.	10
2	360	The features most often selected for by the breeders are beauty and passion.	10
13	91	It is not surprising that nature has selected for the master and the slave.	10
14	687	"I was born Waniyanpi, in one of the Waniyanpi enclosures of the Kailiauk," she said, "the product of a forced mating, between parents unknown even to themselves, parents selected and matched by the red masters, parents who, even though they were Sames, were forced to perform the Ugly Act, hooded an...	10
14	702	On the day of breeding they are led to the selected women, already hooded, tied and awaiting them.	10

Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	266	Grunt's prize on the coffle, a beautiful red-haired girl, a former debutante from Pennsylvania, once Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, was selected out by Canka as a personal slave, one to run at the left flank of his own kaiila and wear her leather, beaded collar, placed on her by his command, for him ...	10
2	77	Women seem to have a gift for languages; this may have been selected for, over hundreds of generations, given wars, abductions, piracies, slave raids, and such, as it is clearly in their best interests to learn quickly the languages of their new masters.	10
2	463	"A suitable slave has been selected".	10
3	7	The slavers who had originally selected her to wear a Gorean collar had known their business.	10
3	33	"The young men, more than a hundred of them, selected from the bands, sent ahead days ago, as soon as the Pte were sighted, have ridden for the tree".	10
3	265	Behaviors can be selected for, of course, and tendencies to behaviors, as well as such things as the color of hair and eyes.	10
5	224	Polishing behavior in males thus appears to be selected for.	10
14	163	Near it they are led to hooded, stripped Waniyanpi women, selected for breeding, from the other compound, lying bound in a maize field.	10
30	54	It is thus possible, interestingly, that a readiness to subscribe to ideologies, with no particular regard for their nature, has been selected for.	10
37	142	The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey.	10
37	256	When this is administered she usually understands, as suggested, that she has been selected for breeding, for crossing with a male slave, and, naturally, one supposes, it will be one, or is likely to be one, with properties which, combined with hers, are calculated from the master's point of view to...	10

Book 19. (17 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	509	"When will I learn whether or not I have been selected?" "For one thing," said the man, "you have already been selected".	10
1	273	I had been chosen to work at that counter because I was pretty, much like pretty girls often being selected to sell lingerie.	10
1	500	"If you are selected," he said, "any apparel which you might receive, I assure you, will leave little doubt as to your femininity".	10
1	501	"If I am selected?" I asked.	10
1	516	I was not really displeased, for he had told me that for one thing, at any rate, I had already been selected.	10
2	23	"You have been selected," it said.	10
2	55	"I recall, you said," I said, "that I had already been selected for one thing, even at the photographer's studio".	10
6	72	They were ready for investigatory excursions or, if the randomly selected schedules were appropriate, for routine patrols.	10
8	32	"That is one of the reasons that I have selected it for your visit, that your sensibilities, those of a free woman, not be excessively offended".	10
9	147	"Before selected guardsmen.	10
11	6	Even the silken collar sheath, of one color or another, which was usually worn, selected to match a tunic, was gone.	10
33	176	"That is not the one whom the sleen selected," said Hassan.	10
33	410	"That is not the one whom the sleen selected," said Hassan.	10
33	426	Can we not imagine the possibility, where so much money is at stake, that a woman closely resembling the Tatrix, as this woman, for example, might be selected as a quarry in a fraudulent hunt.	10
33	725	She was brought to Gor as an unwitting dupe, one selected to serve as proxy for me in case our plans should go awry.	10
33	824	The girl selected was the collared slave to my right, now the slave, as I understand it, of Miles of Argentum.	10
35	91	Publius, to my surprise, selected a liqueur of Turia.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	96	Sometimes the actresses are expected to perform privately, being "tested," so to speak, for selected officials.	10
5	40	"I would, if I were you, light a small lamp or two, illuminating the main hall and perhaps the selected alcove.	10
12	435	"Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected.	10
14	278	Perhaps something had been selected for, somehow, in the recognition and acceptance dispositions of the packs.	10
16	1184	"To be sure, if I respected you more highly," said the player, "I might have selected a different opening move".	10
16	1210	Rankings among players, incidentally, resulting from play in selected tournaments and official matches, are kept with great exactness.	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	38	It seems possible they have been selected for.	10
3	10	Too, of course, it had been quickly noted that such women, too, tended to be less frequently selected for the pleasure of the drivers.	10
4	147	"I am a mercenary, of sorts," I said, "but I have usually selected my causes with care".	10
6	1	Hurtha's Feast "Hurtha," said I, "what have you there?" "Fruits, dried and fresh, candies, nuts, four sorts of meats, choice, all of them, fresh-baked bread, selected pastries," responded he, his arms full, "and some superb paga and delicate ka-la-na".	10
13	159	Many women on Gor have been scouted, and selected for bondage, weeks or months, perhaps even years, before they are picked up.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	133	Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t...	10
3	183	I picked up one tape, put it aside, and selected another.	10
11	302	Her selected mate is also hooded.	10
19	83	"It was not for nothing that I selected you out from the others," I said.	10
19	86	Actually I had selected him out because my master's men had, when he had passed, indicated that I should do so.	10
27	32	I then realized that he had selected the place where he had stood with care.	10
28	163	"You must have been very beautiful," I said, "to have been selected for his tent".	10
29	944	Such beasts had not only the teeth and claws of predators, but prehensile appendages of a sort not unlike those selected for in arboreal or climbing forms of life.	10
32	172	"Do you really think, too," he said, "I picked you out from hundreds on Earth, and selected you, screening you according to my own tastes and criteria, as my final and most exquisite Earth capture merely to bring you here to be a free woman?" "No, Master!" I said.	10
34	556	"The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele...	10

Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	154	The same chain, in virtue of the links selected, may be worn by any woman.	10
9	285	The intensification of sexual pleasure, both physically and psychologically, by the application of selected restraints is well known.	10
10	236	Perhaps they are, to some extent, like slave dance, instinctive, the biological template, or genetic dispositions for them, having been selected for thousands of years ago, the most pleasing of captive women, perhaps those squirming best on their tethers, or in their bonds, tending to be utilized fo...	10
10	237	Perhaps, however, they are associated, in their way, with something even deeper, something clearly selected for, the biological need of a woman to belong, to be approved of and to love.	10
21	238	As Gorean slave girls are selected for their intelligence, as well as their beauty of face and form, and their latencies of uncontrollable passion, they learn quickly.	10

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	873	It is easy to speculate, in general terms, on such latencies having been selected for in a variety of ways, for example, in noting their affinity with movements of love and luring, their value in displaying the female, their capacity to stimulate the male, their utility in pleasing and placating men...	10
27	540	These may have been selected for, considering the high mobility of women, in virtue of practices in exogamous mating, enslavements, sales, captures, and such, assisting them to placate, and accommodate themselves to, foreign masters.	10
42	74	"Perhaps they had been selected for that very reason," said Marcus.	10
47	60	I suspect that your fellow conspirators have selected you, and perhaps some others, to be identified and repudiated, as having duped others, and so on.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	47	"Selected, controllable contingents, probably mostly regulars," I said.	10
7	278	Indeed, some men, collectors, use their gardens mainly for housing their collections, say, of different types of women, selected perhaps primarily with an eye to illustrating, and exhibiting, various forms of female beauty, or, indeed, even for their unique or rare brands.	10
9	245	I gather that this may have been to compensate, before the crowd, for the selection of the Lady Fulvia, to indicate that in spite of the Lady Fulvia's concerns and protests, how very few women, actually, all in all, were being selected.	10
9	263	But then another woman was selected, and subsequently manacled and, in due course, added to the coffle.	10
9	567	Another woman, similarly, later, whom Talena seemed prepared to dismiss, she reconsidered and selected, apparently at the request or suggestion of one of the Cosians on the dais.	10
9	633	"Am I to be selected or not?" asked the second woman in the line, anxiously.	10
9	875	When I had threaded the chain back through the arms of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, incidentally, I did not mention to her that she had been selected to entertain at a late supper to be given by Talena of Ar, her Ubara, in the room of the Ubar, in the Central Cylinder.	10
19	85	In this way being selected for the collar is a great compliment to a woman.	10

Book 26. (18 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	10	I was dressed precisely as she had been in our first outings, in the rags I had selected for her, those which I had specially selected, in my slave girl's vengeance on a free woman, to display her as a low slave.	10
5	33	I did not think myself such that I might be selected out from hundreds to be brought here.	10
5	38	Usually one is either selected out almost immediately for the gardens, almost from the beginning, or, later, after one has attained various intermediate levels or degrees.	10
6	151	Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the m...	10
7	346	But, more importantly, we were, it seems, women like us, selected with various parameters in mind, such as intelligence, beauty, and heat.	10
7	876	But, of course, in another sense, I was terribly pleased that it had been I, and not she, or not Tima, or Tana, whom he had selected out for the kissing and tying of his sandals.	10
7	1079	Too, we are, I suspect, selected with heat in mind.	10
9	104	"They have been selected for their nature, which is that to be a woman's slave".	10
11	511	But I would have expected a master to have considered me with some care, as he might another form of animal, and to have then selected a name for me which, at least to his fancy, seemed to him fitting or suitable, a name which might then, sooner or later, be inscribed on a collar.	10
11	1396	"It is enough," said another, "that it be a suitable orchard from which slave fruit may be plucked, a suitable field from which may be harvested crops of slaves, a place of suitable herds, from which may be selected slave meat".	10
12	360	I selected the largest, and finest, of course".	10
18	294	The slaves selected for breeding are generally unknown to one another, normally hooded and commonly forbidden to speak.	10
28	55	"It seems to be that which I selected in the shop of a jeweler in Besnit, before my abduction," she said.	10
37	123	This is apparently a behavior selected for in the evolution of the sleen.	10
37	128	Over thousands of generations of sleen this behavior has, I suspect, been selected for, as it contributes to the survival of the animal, and its consequent capacity, obviously, thereafter, to replicate itself.	10
38	88	That he had selected me out to sew his garment, I was sure, was not without significance.	10
38	163	I was a little bit angry that she had been selected as the prize in the guards' game.	10
41	133	Sometimes, to be sure, we entertained, in the house or garden, some singing and playing, others, such as I, fetching food and drink, attending on the guests, then all of us, later, as we might be selected, or allotted, or assigned, serving, as slaves.	10

Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	8	We do not know, in full, what their criteria are, for such as she, and others, not at all why such as she, and others, are selected.	10
2	18	Too, if we are selected, or often are, at least in part, on the basis of our intelligence, one supposes that we would be more likely to be more alert, more sensitive, more inventive, more attentive than might otherwise be the case; we would be likely to be better, for example, one supposes, at readi...	10
2	234	She was, as thousands, and millions of others, though perhaps a bit short, and a little slim, a normal human female, of a sort greedily selected for in countless generations of matings and prizings.	10
4	357	I have selected only three, thinking that these might be most helpful to you at this moment".	10
8	152	Perhaps you, similarly unbeknownst to yourself, have been scouted, and selected.	10
10	66	"Sometimes, in rural areas," he said, "there is a breeding festival, and slaves from miles about, hooded and bound, carefully selected, of course, on leashes behind wagons, in crates, and so on, are brought to the breeding grounds.	10
11	25	It did not follow from that, that if they should take it seriously, that they would immediately forgo their genetically conditioned proprietary inclinations, selected for in millions of years of primate evolution, and promptly terminate long-term, intimate relationships with desirable women and abol...	10
11	1074	"Did you see how pleased she was to learn that certain selected female rivals, enemies, and such, women she had listed, had been abducted, brought to this world and embonded?" "Yes, Master," she said.	10
11	1092	"Perhaps, in time, Evelyn, for that is the name Jeffrey has selected for her, and she will learn her name tomorrow, that will be soon enough, may eventually serve naked in this room, as you did this evening".	10
12	437	Thus, though the slave girl has, like any other woman, her charming, delicious, ingrained, biologically selected-for prostitute tendencies, she is scarcely in a position to use them in order to garner for herself rich gifts, economic privileges, appointment preferences, status, prestige, advancement...	10
20	642	She wondered, idly, if such bodies might have been selected for, so different from those of most primate females, in dozens of millennia of prehuman, and, later, Paleolithic tribal warfare, in which females, as well as hunting grounds, would be the spoils of war.	10
21	21	The usual coffling order, for those whom it might interest, is not from front to rear, as was being done here, girls being selected almost randomly to be added to the rope, but from rear to front, the slaves keeping their eyes forward.	10
25	738	They are usually selected for, as obviously they will usually be priced for, their desirability.	10
26	597	Certainly some unusually beautiful Earth woman, all unaware of such matters, and, like others, scouted without her least knowledge or suspicion, might find, upon her arrival on Gor, after her initial terror and consternation, discovering herself stripped and chained, a slave, that a rather different...	10
27	80	Sometimes Earth girls in the pens ask where are the beautiful women, and only later come to understand that it is they who are the truly beautiful women, the ones ruthless men have selected for collars.	10
30	58	At last, too, and more importantly, they are in their place in nature, with its endemic codes of dominance and submission, selected for in the long biography of a planet's evolution, codes pervasive throughout all animal life.	10
30	679	But with you, on the same chain, perhaps prized even more highly than you, their collars locked as securely as yours, their chains clasping as perfectly, their bodies as bared, may be other women, they selected as carefully as you, quiet, gentle, loving, needful, natural women, women less removed in...	10
30	695	Perhaps you will be selected.	10
30	696	Perhaps, unbeknownst to you, you have already been selected.	10

Book 28. (31 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	159	She would have been selected for you, selected for you by Priest-Kings, and doubtless with great care, with all their shrewdness, and science, selected to be irresistible to you, a slut of your dreams, that you might be tempted from your honor".	10
1	165	At that point presumably only carefully selected, high-quality merchandise would be brought to her shores.	10
1	247	This apparently has to do with a variety of genetic antecedents and endowments, dispositions and complementarities, selected for in the long and interesting course of human evolution.	10
1	328	In order to understand the nature of this torture, one might note that the two females involved had not been selected for their role in this matter at random.	10
1	329	They had been selected with great care.	10
1	330	Both had, of course, been selected for their unusual desirability as human females.	10
1	386	The girl from the Steel Worlds, and the girl from England, as indicated, had not been selected at random.	10
1	387	In particular, however, we should note that the English girl had been selected by her captors, the Priest-Kings, with particularly great care, and with all the expertise and wisdom of their advanced science, to be a match with the male in question.	10
1	630	To be sure, in some respects, her breeding was indeed excellent, for it had been selected out by the Priest-Kings, for, in particular, certain of its dispositions and helplessnesses.	10
1	638	I think I mentioned that had our human confederates known of her she would have been selected for their purposes, and would eventually have found herself suitably auctioned, as would be appropriate for her.	10
1	771	We recall that she had been selected as a match for the particular male in question, and that, thus, they would find themselves irresistibly and excruciatingly attractive to one another.	10
1	1069	The English girl, despite the strange, unfamiliar feelings in his presence, feelings which frightened, warmed and delighted her, did not understand, of course, that she had been selected out for him, that she had been chosen for him with great care, that she had been matched to him most exquisitely,...	10
2	52	Had they stood fully erect those of this group, carefully selected, would have averaged some ten to eleven feet in height.	10
2	231	Too, we recall that she had been selected by Priest-Kings to be excruciatingly desirable to him.	10
2	252	Lastly, recall that the Priest-Kings had selected her out, perhaps from thousands, for their purposes, and that our own esteemed confederates, who are specialists in such matters, would have, had they discovered her, unhesitantly entered her on their acquisition lists.	10
2	255	And recall, as well, that not only had she been selected out to be excruciatingly desirable to Cabot, as a slave, but that he would be to her, in virtue of the same matchings, excruciatingly desirable to her, as a master.	10
3	107	He found her tormentingly attractive to him, but had she not been selected to be so? She is playing her little game, he thought.	10
18	15	Certainly the Priest-Kings must have selected her with care, having placed her for their purposes in his container on the Prison Moon.	10
35	16	He had selected, one evening, in the dusk, two likely branches from a young Tur tree, a tree which is found on Gor, a reddish tree which, when mature, is lofty and broadly leaved, and had shaped them to his purpose.	10
36	275	Certainly the girls of the pleasure cylinder had been carefully selected, chosen with the pleasure of his crews in mind.	10
43	396	Do you think it is bestowed thoughtlessly, or lightly? Women such as you have been selected out from amongst others, many others.	10
43	398	Do you not understand that merchants choose such as you with a profit in mind, that you are that valuable, and that you are such, and carefully selected to be such, that you might drive a man mad with desire? You have been collared, girl.	10
56	28	"So, it does," said Lord Grendel, "and I do not doubt but what Flavion selected it with that thought in mind".	10
73	205	Often important events are not spoken of before her, even events which might affect her profoundly, raids, excursions, shortages, closings of trade routes, marches on cities, the approach of armies, and such, and even lesser things, as well, for example that offers have been made for her, perhaps by...	10
77	285	The steel, the links, the ring, the post, such things, were not designed to concede the least possibility of escape to their selected prisoners.	10
79	188	She had been selected with care by Priest-Kings, doubtless from many thousands, with him in mind.	10
79	190	If she was an almost irresistible temptation for any male, what must she be then to him, he for whom she, unbeknownst to herself, had been selected, readied, and prepared? Cabot wondered if in a sense she had not, unbeknownst to herself, been bred for him.	10
79	714	"Have I not been selected, with you in mind?" she said.	10
79	716	"Surely, then," she said, "I am not just another slave to you!" "You have been nicely selected," he said.	10
81	41	"You, however," said Cabot to his Cecily, "would have been selected by Priest-Kings and brought in one of their ships to the Prison Moon".	10
81	43	"How are your acquisitions selected?" she asked.	10

Book 29. (28 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	138	Had not Cecily and I been fitted to one another, selected for one another, matched to one another, by the shrewd wisdom or insidious machinations of calculating Priest-Kings, to serve their purposes, not ours, to be mutually irresistible? She had been selected to bring about my downfall, to so tempt...	10
1	259	She had been one of the two women who had been enclosed with me in the small, transparent container on the Prison Moon, two who had been deliberately, carefully selected by Priest-Kings, with all their shrewdness and science, with all their malevolent expertise, to constitute exquisite temptations f...	10
1	264	Indeed, I have little doubt that she had been selected for me, with great care and skill, perhaps from amongst thousands, that she had been matched expertly to my inclinations, preferences, and needs, inclinations, preferences, and needs of which I might not even have been aware.	10
2	67	To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...	10
2	130	As I understand it, this is normally done only with particularly selected women, ones whose once remarkable beauty, this usually determined from old drawings, paintings, and photographs, has faded.	10
3	259	From that location Constantina had selected hers, and later, those for others.	10
4	28	Too, they were, like slaves, selected for their beauty, and this placed them in jeopardy in a world such as Gor.	10
5	75	Doubtless they selected their human agents with an eye to probity and utility, not nobility, not honor.	10
7	149	It is selected, marked for the arsenal, for the yard of Cleomenes".	10
10	110	"These two," said Lord Nishida, "were selected suitably, as specified?" said Lord Nishida.	10
10	111	"One was selected with great care, following diligent inquiry, and exacting research, from amongst several, from over two hundred," said the blond fellow, "according to your various specifications".	10
12	269	That response has presumably been selected for.	10
13	91	Something in that luscious configuration will trigger a genetic response selected for over millennia.	10
22	380	Are they not the prizes of battle? Are they not flesh loot? Are they not, so to speak, lovely morsels, to be seized, to be aligned, to be examined, to be selected forthwith, to satisfy the appetites of masters? After the suppers' desserts, surely then the slaves who served it.	10
22	537	She had selected him, as I recalled, to accompany her to Gor.	10
22	590	"Yes," said Tajima, "and she was selected with care, in compliance with a very special order, one requisitioning a particular sort of slave, one worthy of a being a suitable gift for a shogun".	10
22	656	She had originally been selected by Priest-Kings to tempt me to the subversion of my honor, and had been, accordingly, with all their wisdom and expertise, chosen with exquisite care to attain that end.	10
22	657	She had been chosen to appeal to me in ways of which I had not even dreamed, and, by a parity of design, her own needs and desires had been taken into consideration, and mercilessly exploited, as well, and unscrupulously so, in that she had been selected as one who by her own nature would find herse...	10
22	665	To be sure, a lovely ancestress of hers had apparently been selected out from the fields in the Fifteenth Century to be a stirrup mistress to a knight, but the resultant, oblique line, as it turned out, was without spurs.	10
23	210	Some, before the hunt, would use a woman, briefly, ruthlessly, unfeelingly, leaving her shuddering, crumpled, and broken, sobbing, at their feet, before honing the selected blade, one of six, before painting the dagger on their forehead, that crowds might part uneasily before them, that taverns migh...	10
26	145	I wondered sometimes if the Priest-Kings, who think in terms of generations, and even millennia, had selected us for one another, or had bred us for one another.	10
27	148	To men they were complementary, neither, given those whims of nature which had been selected for and validated in the arena of possibilities, confirmed in caves and justified in villas, mansions, and palaces, ratified over millennia, identical nor antithetical.	10
30	96	I supposed this disposition had been selected for in the course of the beast's evolution.	10
38	49	When he dares, he sends her again to the alcove, and perhaps confirms what he had most feared, that she is not merely another slave to him, but that she is muchly different, and that they may have been selected for one another by nature, he as master, she as slave.	10
38	246	The majority of public slaves, or, perhaps better, the slaves without private masters, camp slaves, kitchen slaves, laundry slaves, girls selected for trading and selling, girls from the slave house, and such, would be soon conducted on board.	10
38	436	We had been selected for one another by Priest-Kings, to be irresistible to one another.	10
38	638	Each, rather, had the exciting body of the genetically honed slave of men, the typical body of the natural human female, deliciously seizable, and lusciously curved, curves selected for, turned on the lathe of masculine lust, for centuries, the sort of female body hunted, sought, prized, enslaved, a...	10
40	86	Aside from the pleasures of owning and mastering such a woman, for it is a joy to possess one, a property so intellectually stimulating, one profits from an apparent genetic linkage, doubtless selected for over millennia, from the caves and markets onward, between intelligence and sexual responsiven...	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	31	Perhaps that is why the high watches are usually restricted to selected crewmen, who manage the watch regularly.	10
12	541	For the first time she finds herself placed amongst, and ranked amongst, women of great interest to men, women even selected with this in mind.	10
17	48	For this reason, if no other, they are likely to be selected with great care.	10
17	50	It is rather as though they were fruit in an orchard, to be scouted with circumspection, and only then, after careful consideration, the choicest of the choice, selected for the delectation of foreign tables.	10
20	103	Had she truly thought that she, and her some two hundred collar sisters, on their chains, so beautiful, so vital, so carefully selected, had been brought across the breadth of mighty Thassa, all the way from continental, known Gor, merely to be tower slaves? I did not think it likely she would soon ...	10
20	353	I supposed, of course, as earlier suggested, that they were selected with care, that they were culled from the most delectable of slave stock.	10
22	169	Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death.	10
30	42	In such a way the walled-in trail might, at selected points, as desired, be transformed into a blazing furnace.	10
37	842	"They are selected with that in mind," he said.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	634	Were not the blossoming subtleties of my body, and those of others, such that they had been carved out over countless generations by the lusts of men? Were we not delightful prizes, goods, like fruit and animals, to be seized and exploited? Had we not been selected to be delights to possessors? Had ...	10
3	26	I was brought here as most from my world, as animals for your markets, selected for qualities and attributes of interest to strong men, qualities and attributes for which strong men, historically, even on my old world, will bid and pay, those qualities and attributes so despised in us, and yet covet...	10
4	148	What of relationships, so pervasive amongst mammals? Had such things not been selected for? Was nature so hard to read? Did the consequences of denying her lead to happiness, or fulfillment? It did not seem so.	10
4	324	"To some, perhaps more than you suspect, it will be clear that it is a Gorean party; to others it will be no more than a delightful, exquisite entertainment, a costume affair, with a Roman or Greek flavor, hosted by the house, to which selected members of particular fraternities will be invited".	10
5	26	Contrariwise, the girls taken from Earth are apparently selected with great care, for beauty, intelligence, and, I suspect, somehow, though I am unclear how it is assessed, for latent, and eventually uncontrollable, passion.	10
5	33	They are selected with great care, apparently by men, or women, who are professionals in such matters.	10
5	43	Rawlinson was Gorean, or in league with Goreans, she had certainly been well placed to examine and assess a number of supercilious, vain, intelligent, highly cultured, beautiful young women, women conveniently gathered together, women nicely located and accessible, self-selected women, beauties all,...	10
7	759	I was such that I had been selected for the collar of Gor.	10
8	2027	The girls in the sorority had not been selected merely on the basis of appearance, carriage, dressing smartly, being economically well stationed, and so on.	10
8	2028	We were selected, at least in part, to enhance the reputation of the sorority, as an established avenue to wealth and power.	10
10	764	That I thought might be even more frightening, for the human would be of one's own kind, selected for according to the radical, dimorphic relationships of master and slave over countless generations, one well aware of, and sensitive to, the psychology, the needs, the fears, the vulnerabilities, the ...	10
17	366	"I was curious to see if you would be selected for the game".	10
26	65	"Each month there is an auction of selected state slaves in Ar.	10
48	118	This behavior, the loyalty to a chieftain, so to speak, had doubtless been selected for in millennia of Kur warfare, even prior to the development of sophisticated weaponry, which, as I understand it, exists on the steel worlds.	10

Book 32. (17 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	178	When I awakened on the wooden floor, in the high-ceilinged, spacious room, naked amongst others, and was positioned so that I might be conveniently bound, I realized that I, and these others, had been selected.	10
5	179	Thus, having been selected, I supposed, as well, that we had been assessed, and, assessed, had been found acceptable.	10
9	62	There was no one about that I could see, and I wondered how this place, which might be no different from ten thousand others, had been selected for our landfall.	10
13	54	"She has been well selected," said a fellow.	10
15	108	We were indignant, as we knew we had been carefully selected.	10
19	39	"I have selected them," he said.	10
21	159	"But to you, greedy friend," said the beast, "it would have no value whatsoever in itself, only in its proper delivery to the selected parties.	10
22	45	"They are selected, in part, for their intelligence.	10
22	52	Too, barbarians were selected with great care.	10
25	209	I had pulled the vines partly from the soil, perhaps a foot or so, when, suddenly, they fell away In such a form of life certain mechanisms had doubtless been selected for.	10
25	210	The behaviors of agitation and attack had doubtless been selected for, but so, too, I gathered, triggered by tensions likely to accompany or precede uprooting, had been a release and withdrawal.	10
40	16	"It is well known," he said, "that barbarians are selected for stupidity, passion, and beauty".	10
40	31	"Barbarians are selected with several criteria in mind, surely beauty, and helpless responsiveness and passion, but also high intelligence, often quite high intelligence.	10
41	460	"Yet I was selected," I said.	10
43	659	And why should women not be vain, as they are so precious, desirable, and beautiful? How can men not lust for them, and make them slaves? What pallid, inert fool would not wish to own one? Whose blood would be so weak that he would not see them as the natural property of men? And what woman was more...	10
49	124	"It seems we are carefully selected," she said.	10
52	606	They are selected for beauty and intelligence".	10

Book 33. (18 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	495	What might she look like, being vended naked on a Gorean slave block? However it had come about, she had been, unbeknownst to herself, even whilst on Earth, selected for Gorean slavery.	10
7	267	You were selected with care".	10
7	268	"Selected?" I said.	10
16	1	What Occurred on the Fifth Level of the Palace "This wing of the palace," said the Ashigaru, "is closed to all save Lord Yamada and selected servitors".	10
19	61	"Those selected will be washed, and placed in clean tunics before being bound and led to the palace," said the Ashigaru keeper.	10
19	197	Surely that would have been cruel enough, but each had been brilliantly selected, with the end in view of my suffering, that I should be torn between desire and honor, suffering indefinitely until, inevitably, I should succumb to the implacable imperatives of nature, and put them to my pleasure.	10
20	208	"I was selected from amongst others, in the slave pens," she said.	10
23	81	"He selected such a target," I said.	10
27	125	We will sometimes rest in selected villages, known to me, where we will be sheltered.	10
30	47	Our practice, until recently, had been to house ourselves in selected villages, some known to Haruki, and some scouted by him, in the daylight Ahn, and then move, again, at night.	10
43	3	"We selected a small wagon," I said.	10
43	89	Nezumi wore a Pani brand, selected for her by her master, Tajima.	10
43	122	Nature had not selected women such as these, so lovely, so beautiful, so vulnerable, so deliciously and helplessly female and feminine, for the lifting of stones and the hauling of wagons.	10
43	123	They had been selected to be at the feet of men, to serve men, and to give pleasure to men, their masters.	10
47	201	Lord Yamada selected the first bow, the highest bow, and strung it.	10
52	136	Manipulating the sphere then, as I determined, oriented the camera, changing the screen from the default position to a selected position, say more to the left or right, higher or lower, and such.	10
57	75	Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity.	10
61	1161	Slaves are selected for their beauty.	10

Book 34. (15 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	110	Apparently Drusus Andronicus had been selected either by Surtak or Decius Albus, most likely Decius Albus, for the choice might be immaterial to Surtak, and Lord Grendel, of course, selected his colleague and ally, my master, Kurik, of Victoria.	10
1	259	Normally one such as you would not be selected, but I think we may make an exception in your case.	10
6	82	Each of you has been selected for Gorean bondage.	10
6	345	Indeed, one of the criteria in terms of which you were selected is high intelligence.	10
7	64	Indeed, she may go to sleep one night, suspecting nothing, not even being aware that she has been scouted and selected, and not awaken until she finds herself in a Gorean slave pen, naked and shackled.	10
10	142	"And barbarians," he said, "are selected carefully, with an eye to intelligence, beauty, and passion.	10
11	18	They were men, and we were women, and women doubtless selected, at least in part, for their desirability and beauty, and, being men, they, no more than the males of Earth, objected to chatting with desirable and beautiful women, though, in this case, we were slaves, naked, and looking up at them, ca...	10
15	307	And why was I surreptitiously removed from Market of Semris? I was not a free woman, selected for a collar in some distant town or city, whose abduction might involve considerable risk.	10
42	153	Slavers selected with high intelligence in mind, as well as beauty and passion.	10
49	329	Accordingly, the actual acquisitions of earlier-selected merchandise are often timed to allow for transportation and training prior to a given, projected sale, at one time or another, in one market or another.	10
53	96	The Sleen's Back Bridge in the Claudian district was selected largely because of its obscurity.	10
61	840	When your number is drawn, you may have your pick of the kajirae who have not yet been selected".	10
63	303	Indeed, if a woman is chained to a slave ring by the ankle, it is commonly the left ankle that is selected for the fastening.	10
64	95	And worthless, indeed! We are selected for our beauty, our intelligence, our passion, our needs, and our desirability! And we are clothed, if clothed, in such a way as to display us, to flatter our sex and show it as it can be, as men want to see it, exciting and vulnerable, ready and purchasable! D...	10
64	265	Each selected a cube of meat, but paid her no further attention, as she was a slave.	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	329	I had been selected to be a Gorean slave.	10
12	29	Had not slavers, discriminating professionals in such matters, selected me, included me on their cargo manifests, and shipped me, with others, like the animals we were, to the markets of Gor? Every bit of me was now a slave.	10
24	129	How then can you doubt the quality of these hand-picked tastas, delicacies selected with care for your delectation? And, let me apprise you that the noble Samos, as is his occasional wont, has inserted here, at one of these rings, which one, I wonder, as a challenge and surprise, a girl worthy to be...	10
33	492	Then some, selected from amongst the most beautiful, intelligent, and needful, are brought to the collars, chains, and whips of Gor".	10
41	158	Yet how important is the master! So much depended on the master! Did it matter, really, if the master was a good master, whether he was of Ar or Brundisium, or far Turia or even Port Kar? Did it matter, really, whether he was of Cos or Tyros, or of the mainland? I knew that docilities and submission...	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	69	Could it be that some genetic combinations are selected for, those which lead to survival, health, happiness, and thriving? But such questions are perhaps outside the scope of the codes.	10
10	106	I do not want the goblet to be selected by the vat master or filled by the vat master.	10
15	1	Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes...	10
16	200	"In the Farther Islands," she said, "vulos have been selected and bred for generations for just such an aptitude".	10
20	91	In decimation men are randomly aligned and, beginning with a man randomly selected, every tenth man is slain.	10
30	28	In that special situation or selected incident, the smaller force outnumbers the larger force two to one.	10
42	167	"I have selected thirty men," I said, "three groups of ten each; I shall command one group, Thurnock another, and Clitus the last.	10
43	108	I climbed from the inner ditch, followed by my ten selected men, four swordsmen, four archers, and two men bearing vessels of tharlarion oil and axes, not war axes, but woodsmen's axes.	10
55	8	"The Brigand Island, in all its simplicity, enormity, and inert sluggishness, has been trained to associate ships, some ships, randomly selected, with a reward, a feeding.	10
57	138	It reminded me a little of the dorsal fin of the nine-gilled Gorean shark, so much like those of Earth, a graceful, efficient, savage form of life, presumably selected for efficient predation, just as the Earth shark in similar environments.	10
62	65	"I see," I said, "he, selected, a hated enemy, would deepen the friction between Cos and Port Kar, an enmity valuable to, and exploitable by, say, the court in Jad".	10