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| 1 | 4 |
Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair. |
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| 1 | 123 |
An object fell from the envelope, a ring of red metal bearing the simple crest "C". |
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| 1 | 139 |
I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the Cities of Dust. |
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| 1 | 171 |
Moreover, it would be a simple matter to cover one's tracks in the light. |
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| 2 | 72 |
He straightened and turned to face me across that simple, strange room. |
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| 2 | 105 |
At my father's insistence, I began to eat, reluctantly, never taking my eyes from him, hardly tasting the food, which was simple but excellent. |
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| 2 | 274 |
Why have the Priest-Kings been so lenient in this case—those who control this second earth? I think the answer is simple. |
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| 3 | 122 |
The Scribes, of course, are the scholars and clerks of Gor, and there are divisions and rankings within the group, from simple copiers to the savants of the city. |
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| 3 | 165 |
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
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| 3 | 216 |
It had a switch in the handle, which could be set in two positions, on and off, like a simple torch. |
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| 4 | 18 |
Accordingly, the mechanics are simple. |
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| 5 | 44 |
Her part in the plan was simple, though ultimately fatal. |
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| 7 | 47 |
"Why do you wear these silly things?" "The daughter of a Ubar must look down on her subjects," was the simple if extraordinary reply. |
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| 7 | 74 |
What was it she thought I was waiting for? Then, to my astonishment, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus, daughter of the Ubar of Ar, knelt before me, a simple warrior of Ko-ro-ba, and lowered her head, lifting and extending her arms, the wrists crossed. |
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| 7 | 75 |
It was the same simple ceremony that Sana had performed before me in the chamber of my father, back at Ko-ro-ba—the submission of the captive female. |
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| 9 | 49 |
This practice, as once in England, is more than a simple matter of convention. |
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| 10 | 146 |
She wore the diagonally striped slave livery of Gor, as had Sana—that briefly skirted, simple, sleeveless garment. |
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| 10 | 157 |
She read the simple legend aloud: "I am the property of Tarl of Bristol". |
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| 11 | 25 |
My plan, as I explained to Talena, was simple. |
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| 12 | 169 |
Almost as an afterthought I had included the Home Stone of Ar, that simple, uncomely piece of rock that had so transformed my destiny and that of an empire. |
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| 14 | 32 |
"What can you, a simple tarnsman, know of these things?" he asked. |
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| 14 | 94 |
As I fought, I could hear the lion laughter of Marlenus behind me, as what had been a simple impalement turned into a fight of the sort after his own heart. |
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| 18 | 172 |
I seemed to be beside myself and fought as if I might not be what I knew I was, what I thought myself to be—Tarl Cabot, a simple warrior, one man. |
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| 20 | 57 |
It was simple enough to feign amnesia, and what other account of those seven months would my world accept? I spent a few days in a public hospital, under observation, and was then allowed to leave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 |
Somehow, unlike my colleagues at the school, I had found the amnesia account too simple. |
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| 1 | 150 |
It had been mentioned in the account, that simple ring of red metal, bearing the crest of Cabot. |
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| 1 | 184 |
Inside was the simple note: "For Harrison Smith, should he care to have it". |
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| 3 | 104 |
I sensed that this simple, unaffected primate of a man was suddenly afraid. |
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| 3 | 136 |
He struggled with himself, his simple wide face twisted in agony, his eyes tortured. |
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| 6 | 120 |
Gorean women, whether slave or free, know that their simple presence brings joy to men, and I cannot but think that this pleases them. |
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| 6 | 198 |
I admired the simple maneuver, executed without command, almost a matter of reflex, and sensed why Tharna, in spite of being ruled by a woman, had survived among the hostile cities of Gor. |
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| 9 | 37 |
I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the ye... |
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| 10 | 32 |
The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height. |
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| 14 | 112 |
Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S... |
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| 14 | 174 |
The feelings I was tempted to ascribe to it would lie beyond the ken of so simple a creature. |
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| 15 | 265 |
Then, with the scarf, using the simple capture knots of Gor, I lashed her wrists together. |
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| 24 | 8 |
It might have been a Paga Tavern of Ko-ro-ba or Ar, not a simple Kal-da shop of Tharna. |
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| 24 | 129 |
It was the sound of the plowing song, as slow and irresistible as the breaking of ice in frozen rivers, a simple, melodic paean to the soil, celebrating the first breaking of the ground. |
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| 25 | 67 |
Inside the basket was a woman whose carriage and figure I knew to be that of Dorna the Proud, though she now wore only a simple silver mask of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 113 |
It was, as far as I could tell at that time, a simple odor, though later I would learn that it was the complex product of odors yet more simple than itself. |
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| 1 | 103 |
My business with the Priest-Kings is simple, as are most matters of honor and blood. |
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| 2 | 50 |
Others were rather simple, and sometimes sad, such as "No food," "I'm cold," "I'm afraid". |
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| 5 | 26 |
She wore a long, simple sleeveless white robe, which fell gracefully about her in dignified classic folds. |
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| 6 | 30 |
Indeed, when I had returned to Earth from my first trip to Gor I had found that one of the minor inconveniences of my return was reaccustoming myself to the simple business of sitting on chairs. |
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| 7 | 38 |
Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather belligerently simp... |
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| 8 | 44 |
Perhaps one of the almost inexhaustible energy bulbs, which can burn for years, had as a simple matter of fact at last burned out. |
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| 8 | 160 |
"Then you are a simple, domestic folk," I said. |
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| 13 | 16 |
"It is simple," he said. |
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| 13 | 27 |
It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed. |
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| 14 | 156 |
I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and S... |
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| 14 | 171 |
"They seem simple enough to me," I remarked. |
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| 15 | 14 |
When I arrived at the bottom of the rope, some forty feet below, I held the torch over my head and found myself in a bare, simple chamber. |
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| 16 | 135 |
"It is a simple matter," said Misk, "to disrupt a magnetic field". |
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| 17 | 27 |
The occurrence of the expression on Sarm's translator tape, simple as it was, indicated that he had gone to a good deal of trouble, and that the matter, for some reason, was rather important to him. |
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| 17 | 116 |
"If it could be done," I said, "what would you do?" "It is a simple matter," said Sarm, "to overload the net's power capacity". |
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| 19 | 104 |
It was a very simple message and was of course not carried by Sarm's translator. |
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| 20 | 116 |
She was now contained precisely as she had been originally save that she had exchanged the thick, multitudinous, ornate Robes of Concealment, the proud, cumbersome insignia of the free woman of Gor, for the simple garment of a Chamber Slave and a burning wound on her left thigh. |
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| 22 | 162 |
I liked the blade which seemed so simple and efficient compared to the manifold variations in sword steel that were possible. |
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| 27 | 110 |
But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the... |
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| 27 | 112 |
I could not to my emotional satisfaction conjecture the ancientness of this people on which I gazed, and I could but dimly understand their powers, what they might feel, what they might hope or dream, supposing that so old and wise a people were still akin to the simple dream, the vagrant, insuppres... |
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| 27 | 197 |
But then, from the Mother herself, behind me, I sensed once again the transmission of negation, and I heard on the translators that faced me, the simple expression "No". |
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| 27 | 364 |
The voices of the translators were simple and quiet and mechanical. |
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| 28 | 169 |
And a simple heat torch, as I had earlier learned, could scarcely mark the obdurate material. |
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| 28 | 187 |
Indeed, many of the canisters of fungus now in the stores of Sarm were reportedly canisters of simple Mul-Fungus taken from the cases of Muls who had been killed or fled. |
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| 29 | 150 |
Feeling what seemed to be a blank area of the ceiling of the control area I fired a blast upward, using the simple expedient of the tube to open a hole in the craft through which light might enter. |
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| 30 | 125 |
"These preliminary tests are simple," said Sarm, "and may be of interest to you". |
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| 32 | 38 |
It was cold and the humans, including myself, shivered in the simple plastic we wore. |
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| 33 | 140 |
"With most," he said, "it is as you think, and they are simple, believing members of my caste, and there are others who suspect the truth and are tormented, or who suspect the truth and will pretend—but I, Om, High Initiate of Ar, and certain of the High Initiates are like none of these". |
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| 34 | 109 |
I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 |
Even the autumn grass itself bent and shook in brown tides toward Turia, shimmering in the sun like a tawny surf beneath the fleeing clouds above; it was as though the unseen wind itself, frantic volumes and motions of simple air, too desired its sanctuary behind the high walls of the far city. |
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| 2 | 9 |
What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do... |
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| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
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| 5 | 33 |
In his simple statement I then understood the meaning of her condition. |
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| 6 | 38 |
She wore a simple yellow shift, with narrow orange stripes, of what must once have been crisp oxford cloth. |
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| 7 | 16 |
Although the dais was resplendent, and the rugs upon it even more resplendent, I saw that beneath Kutaituchik, over these rugs, had been spread a simple, worn, tattered robe of gray boskhide. |
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| 7 | 17 |
It was upon this simple robe that he sat. |
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| 7 | 18 |
It was undoubtedly that of which Kamchak had spoken, the robe upon which sits the Ubar of the Tuchuks, that simple robe which is his throne. |
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| 7 | 100 |
His eyes regarded her ankles with care, and then her calves and she was acutely aware, blushing, that standing as she did, so straight before him, the simple yellow, oxford-cloth shift ill concealed her thighs, the flatness of her belly, the loveliness of her figure. |
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| 7 | 170 |
The message was simple, consisting of only three lines. |
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| 8 | 27 |
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ... |
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| 8 | 397 |
Nothing simple, but something that, somehow, you can anticipate, if only to a degree. |
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| 8 | 462 |
Albrecht and Conrad had come for a simple purpose, to best a Tuchuk and, in the process, pick up a girl or two; Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, was the only one we had on hand. |
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| 9 | 128 |
I do not know particularly why it is referred to as a camisk, save that it is a simple garment for a female slave. |
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| 9 | 138 |
The simple, short, sleeveless tunic is familiar. |
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| 10 | 178 |
In the light of his skill my own effort seemed depressingly naive, quite simple-minded, unimaginative and straightforward. |
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| 12 | 421 |
Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr... |
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| 15 | 20 |
It seemed to be a simple, elementary strategy. |
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| 17 | 73 |
The rhythm of the steam seemed to increase in tempo and I could now detect, or thought I could, more than simple moisture in that steam, perhaps some other subtle gas or fume, perhaps hitherto unnoticed but now increasing in its volume. |
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| 19 | 167 |
"What is your plan?" "It is a simple one," she responded. |
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| 21 | 314 |
Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the... |
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| 23 | 198 |
It was not that they, on this night, truly distrusted one another so much as the fact that a lifetime of raiding and war had determined each to be, as a simple matter of course, wary of the other. |
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| 25 | 50 |
There was also an inscription in Gorean on the collar, a simple one: I am the girl of Tarl Cabot. |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 25 | 224 |
Again I considered raping her, but now that she was free, no longer a simple slave, I supposed that it would be improper. |
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| 26 | 161 |
The other man with them was a young man, dark-haired and eyed, a simple man-at-arms, perhaps not more than twenty. |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| 27 | 133 |
It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 14 |
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t... |
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| 3 | 223 |
"It was really quite simple," the Saddle Maker was explaining, "even obvious". |
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| 5 | 242 |
Accordingly we developed this device, not too difficult with the single, rather simple brain of the human, which so orders the brain that it can recognize letters, in various forms, and words. |
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| 5 | 382 |
Were they simple barbarians, Gor and Earth would now be theirs". |
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| 5 | 509 |
Our eyes told one another, even in the joy of our meeting, that we, none of us, knew the whereabouts of Talena, once the companion, though she the daughter of a Ubar, of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 5 | 654 |
"What you mistook for daintiness was mere neatness, simple, common everyday neatness". |
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| 5 | 661 |
"No," I said, "simple knots, common Gorean knots". |
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| 5 | 709 |
"It is a simple matter of fact," she said. |
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| 5 | 741 |
Unlike the tarn goad which has a simple on-off switch in the handle, the slave goad works with both a switch and a dial, and the intensity of the charge administered can be varied from an infliction which is only distinctly unpleasant to one which is instantly lethal. |
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| 5 | 742 |
The slave goad, unknown in most Gorean cities, is almost never used except by professional slavers, probably because of the great expense involved; the tarn goad, by contrast, is a simple instrument. |
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| 7 | 82 |
The man, who wore a simple dark tunic and sandals, dropped out to the ground. |
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| 8 | 93 |
It is simple, natural, deceptive, and likely of success". |
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| 8 | 190 |
On the inside we had cut the loop and with a simple knot tied the two cords together, so that, when we wished, we might let ourselves out of the compartment without cutting the cord on the inside. |
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| 9 | 91 |
They seemed, in a way, simple, very childlike. |
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| 12 | 116 |
I might have bought some myself but I did not wish him to recognize me, assuming that his simple mind might hold the remembrance of our first meeting, that at the tavern of Spindius, where I had saved his life. |
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| 12 | 397 |
I looked down at him and I saw, in those wide, simple eyes, of uneven size, no recognition. |
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| 14 | 15 |
Virginia and Phyllis, however, Elizabeth had told me, still wore the simple iron collars which had been hammered about their necks by the smith days before. |
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| 14 | 110 |
I puzzled on the fact that the maps and documents which Caprus was copying were not coded, but in simple Gorean. |
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| 14 | 148 |
On each small wrist, locked, she wore a slave bracelet, of simple, unadorned steel. |
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| 15 | 185 |
Flaminius, for a time, accepted and encouraged counter-arguments, patiently, as though waiting for the girls, when their simple minds permitted it, to understand the truth of what he said. |
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| 15 | 203 |
These questions, to which simple, standard, memorized answers were to be promptly volunteered, were put to them over and over, until they, even Phyllis, responded without thinking. |
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| 15 | 211 |
There is, beyond these, an entire set of questions and answers, some of them considerably more detailed, and involving standard responses to simple questions pertaining to such matters as history and psychology. |
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| 15 | 215 |
At last, after this cruel and almost interminable repetition, utilizing simple psychological principles, intended to brand into the girls' psyche the identity of a Pleasure Slave, the girls began the period of exercises, many of which would, for certain periods of the day, be carried through the nex... |
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| 15 | 221 |
By the end of the twelfth week of their training they were eating well, and by the end of the fifteenth, very well, generally low-calorie foods, nourishing, a good amount of protein, diets supervised as carefully as those of racing tarns or hunting sleen; Elizabeth was the only girl who had, so to s... |
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| 15 | 348 |
Elizabeth would regularly bring her efforts back to the compartment, and the nights were not infrequent when I longed for the simple fare at the table of Cernus, or perhaps a bowl of Ho-Tu's gruel. |
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| 17 | 235 |
His plan was a simple one, but ingenious. |
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| 17 | 797 |
Yet here I knew there was much more involved than simple intelligence; I sensed here a native aptitude of astonishing dimension. |
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| 18 | 77 |
"You would kill for a simple slave?" "I love you," cried Ho-Tu. |
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| 18 | 499 |
"We knew that Priest-Kings would suspect our House, as we intended that they should; so simple a ruse, and profitable a one, as selling barbarian Earth girls under the auspices of the House would guarantee their investigation. |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 19 | 284 |
Elizabeth had been clad in the brief leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl, simple, rough, sleeveless, the short skirt on the left side slit to the belt, so that the saddle of the kaiila, mount of the Wagon Peoples, would be permitted her. |
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| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
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| 21 | 221 |
I, Tarl Cabot, am a simple man, poor in many qualities, one who is doubtless much excelled. |
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| 22 | 243 |
"One might have thought him more than a simple Tarn Keeper". |
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| 24 | 120 |
About her left ankle is normally locked a gray steel band, to which five simple bells of gray metal are attached. |
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| 24 | 146 |
They were perhaps the doors to the compartments of slaves, housing little more doubtless than a straw mat, a washing bowl, and a small box in which might be kept some slave livery and perhaps simple utensils, a plate and a cup. |
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| 24 | 293 |
They were both beautiful, in the gray livery, with their hair brushed back about their heads, with the gray collars, with the matching gray bands with their five simple bells locked about their left ankles. |
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| 24 | 326 |
"It is the hope of Relius," said he, "that the free woman, Virginia, might care for a simple Warrior, one who much loves her, and accept him as her companion". |
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| 24 | 423 |
She wore the briefly skirted gray slave livery of the state slave of Ar, the gray collar, the slender band of gray metal with its five simple bells locked about her left ankle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
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| 1 | 100 |
I then knew that the two pieces of cloth I had encountered earlier had not been simple trail marks but boundary signs, warnings. |
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| 3 | 209 |
"The choice," said Ho-Hak, "is simple". |
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| 4 | 97 |
It was the sort of remark one would address to a slave girl, a simple, comely wench in bondage. |
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| 4 | 147 |
"And would there not be some measure of protection against," I asked, "the simple slavers of Port Kar?" "Perhaps," she said. |
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| 4 | 292 |
I think that if she, this proud woman, before whom I felt myself nothing, she my mistress, if she had but cared to speak a word of simple kindness to me I might have cried out with gladness, willingly serving her in all things she asked. |
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| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
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| 8 | 241 |
I had used simple-pile arrows, which may be withdrawn from a wound. |
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| 8 | 242 |
The simple pile gives greater penetration. |
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| 10 | 100 |
Her collar, however, that she might not grow pretentious, was of simple steel. |
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| 10 | 319 |
The message was simple. |
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| 15 | 9 |
I was Bosk, a simple, but shrewd man, who had come from the marshes to startle Port Kar and dazzle and shake the cities of Gor with my cunning and my blade, and now my power and my wealth. |
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| 15 | 26 |
How simple it is, I thought, to become a true man, powerful and predatory, self-regarding and self-seeking. |
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| 15 | 137 |
He wore a single, simple rep-cloth tunic. |
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| 15 | 263 |
There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul... |
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| 15 | 736 |
About her throat, locked, was a simple, steel collar. |
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| 16 | 256 |
"Now," said I, facing the man who had told me there was but one choice, that of flight, "shall we fly?" He looked at the simple rock, wonderingly. |
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| 18 | 408 |
My head was placed across an anvil and, about my throat, was hammered a simple plate collar. |
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| 18 | 412 |
These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise. |
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| 18 | 415 |
At last, kneeling, in a simple plate collar, beaten and shackled, stripped, I was thrown before him". |
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| 18 | 450 |
I found some beams and rope, and a pole, bound together a simple raft and through one of the delta canals, which were not then barred, made my escape. |
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| 18 | 552 |
Samos survived, and I, and the boy, Fish, and the three girls, and, beyond these, other than the dancer, Sandra, who had remained below, only five men, three who had come to my holding with Samos, and two of my own, one a simple mercenary, one who had once been a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1146 |
It is so simple to cause men acute agony! It was so simple to manipulate them, and control them, by means of their needs. |
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| 17 | 158 |
But I feared, more and more now, day by day, despite my great love for him, to become more to him than his mere property, more than his simple possession, more than his simple recreation and plaything, more than merely another meaningless Sa-Fora, a "daughter of the chain," more than merely another ... |
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| 2 | 50 |
But my terror was not a simple terror. |
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| 2 | 133 |
Surely it was a simple thing to descend to the terrace below! I was very clever. |
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| 6 | 184 |
How simple and provincial he was. |
10 |
| 6 | 261 |
They were doubtless simple barbarians. |
10 |
| 7 | 107 |
From this, as I later saw, camisks were made, a simple slave garment. |
10 |
| 7 | 338 |
Twice we stopped at palisaded villages, those of simple bosk herders. |
10 |
| 8 | 227 |
There is little market in simple Laura for the more exquisite goods of Gor. |
10 |
| 8 | 521 |
My hands were in the cold water, immersing the fabric, and lifting it and wringing it, and pounding it on the rock, and immersing it again, in simple, ancient rhythms. |
10 |
| 8 | 562 |
It seemed to me a simple, wild, lovely place, with the glorious air and sky, the forest to the north, the river to the south. |
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| 8 | 693 |
Then, again, they were simple and vacant, those of a mountebank's performing beast. |
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| 8 | 810 |
The object of the game is simple, to guess the number of stones held in the other's hand or hands. |
10 |
| 10 | 319 |
"Simple". |
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| 10 | 464 |
"I was not brought to Gor, was I," I asked, "to be a simple female slave, simply to be given, or sold, to a master?" "I told you," he reminded me, "that at the age of seventeen you were marked for abduction. |
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| 13 | 16 |
The second part of the structure was a simple, curved fence of wands a few feet downstream of the first, forming the downstream wall of the trap. |
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| 13 | 398 |
She was a crude, simple girl. |
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| 13 | 1105 |
I occasionally, informally, wore little things, brief, elastic-waist shorts, simple single-color tank tops, such things. |
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| 14 | 80 |
I had been coached in the simple collaring ceremony of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 211 |
I suspected there were few men as fierce and terrible as those of Treve, dreaded throughout Gor, and yet they enjoyed their wine warmed and were fond of so simple a thing as smoothing the hair of a girl. |
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| 14 | 387 |
After the simple camisk, I could not wait to be exhibited in such a garment. |
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| 14 | 641 |
This time she carried, coiled in her hand, some seven or eight feet of slender, coarse rope, simple camp rope. |
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| 14 | 643 |
My wrists would be bound by jeweled binding fiber but I would be led forth on a simple camp rope. |
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| 14 | 649 |
It was thus not inappropriate that she should find herself so, as she was, tethered, about her neck, knotted, a simple length of camp rope, slender and coarse, fit for leading verr or girls. |
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| 15 | 262 |
Inge and Rena, and the other new girls, followed me, and I took them to the chest at the side of the shed, where I could find them their simple, brief garments of brown rep-cloth, which raiment would constitute their sole work garment in the camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 15 | 273 |
Then angrily Inge and Rena stood before me, clad in the brief, simple garments of female work slaves. |
10 |
| 15 | 874 |
There Ute, with Inge and Rena, fed me simple broths, which I gratefully drank. |
10 |
| 15 | 1179 |
How I envied her her freedom, her beauty, her pride, and even the simple opacity of the brief garment she wore. |
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| 15 | 1460 |
I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands. |
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| 16 | 210 |
Doubtless she was much pleased to put the daughter of her enemy, Marlenus of Ar, he who had captured her in the northern forests, and had caged her, and exhibited her, in a simple rep-cloth work tunic. |
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| 17 | 127 |
He must continue to see me as no more than a simple, unimportant, though perhaps attractive, barbarian, no more than a lovely, nicely figured, collared Earth girl. |
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| 17 | 169 |
In another week I had, the nose ring removed, served him as a Torian girl, and in another as a simple wench of Laura, and in another as an exquisite pleasure slave of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 475 |
There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
I overheard an argument, between a seller of vegetables and two low-caste women, in simple robes of concealment. |
10 |
| 3 | 31 |
I, and Rim and Thurnock, wore the simple tunics of seamen. |
10 |
| 5 | 56 |
At such times a simple chain, run to her ankle, was sufficient to secure her. |
10 |
| 6 | 291 |
Talena was not a simple paga slave, as was Tana. |
10 |
| 6 | 292 |
Talena was not a simple rence girl, indigenous to the marshes, as was Telima. |
10 |
| 6 | 757 |
"We are simple traders, dealers in fur and hide," I told him, "from the island of Tabor". |
10 |
| 6 | 1022 |
Such tasks, seemingly so simple to you, are not always without difficulty. |
10 |
| 8 | 286 |
The Gorean slave trap is not held by a simple, heavy spring as would be the trap for a panther or sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 217 |
And I understood then that our simple words for emotions, such as pride, and hate, and fear, are gross and inadequate. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
I have often wondered at the excitement generated in women by the simple feel of silk on their bodies. |
10 |
| 11 | 318 |
The test may be as simple as removing a girl's tunic and telling her to walk across a room. |
10 |
| 11 | 319 |
It may be as simple as telling her to present her lips to those of a warrior. |
10 |
| 11 | 321 |
Again, the tests may be simple. |
10 |
| 11 | 932 |
"Does it not seem to you too simple, too familiar, too common?" she asked. |
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| 12 | 63 |
Marlenus, as was his right, she being an ex-citizen of Ar, would free her, and return her, in simple robes of concealment, in disgrace, to her former city. |
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| 13 | 87 |
They were simple pile arrows and pulled cleanly from the body. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge. |
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| 18 | 80 |
I saw Cara behind her, in the bit of white wool still left her, and behind her, Tina, in the shreds of her simple garment of wool. |
10 |
| 19 | 295 |
The blindfold is a simple and common device of slave control. |
10 |
| 19 | 329 |
"Your desires are simple," said Sarus. |
10 |
| 22 | 687 |
But even for them the issues are more complex than these simple formulations would suggest. |
10 |
| 22 | 700 |
The Goreans do not believe, incidentally, that the human being is a simple function of the independent variables of his environment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 |
Only the simple, the fools, the unreflective, the ignorant, know the answer to this question. |
10 |
| 1 | 336 |
I saw the simple, circular, gray collar, the collar of the house of Samos, locked about her throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 59 |
Responses, in archaic Gorean, repetitive, simple, were uttered by the crowd. |
10 |
| 2 | 122 |
So simple an adjustment as the promise of eternal life to women who behaved in accordance with their teachings, instructing the young, and so on, might have much effect. |
10 |
| 2 | 197 |
Most wore simple garments of plain wool, or even rep-cloth. |
10 |
| 2 | 266 |
Surely now he was no simple novice. |
10 |
| 2 | 271 |
It was not that of a simple man, or that of a fool. |
10 |
| 4 | 96 |
Their ankles were no longer bound; their wrists, now, those of most of them, were fettered before their bodies; about their necks, now, however, they wore not simple binding fiber; it had been replaced the first evening out of Kassau; they wore now, knotted about their throats, a coffle rope of the ... |
10 |
| 5 | 232 |
With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu. |
10 |
| 6 | 499 |
He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t... |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
"Your adornments," said he, "will be simple, a kirtle of white wool, a brand, a collar of iron". |
10 |
| 10 | 113 |
In the south the southern slave girl commonly regards her northern counterparts as bumpkins, dolts from the high farms on the slopes of the mountains of Torvaldsland; she thinks of them as doing little but swilling tarsk and dunging fields; she regards them as, essentially, nothing more than a form ... |
10 |
| 10 | 375 |
In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is... |
10 |
| 11 | 122 |
"We are a simple, peaceful folk," it said, "interested in the pursuit of agriculture". |
10 |
| 11 | 141 |
"We were not always simple farmers," said the Kur. |
10 |
| 11 | 150 |
We now wish only to be simple farmers, tilling the soil and leading lives of rustic tranquillity". |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
This would now be no simple matter of policing primitive weapons, crude attempts at the art of gunnery or explosives, but of protecting themselves against perfected weapons of great technological power. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
Besides simple runes, the boy in the north is also taught tallying, counting, addition and subtraction, for such may be of use in trading or on the farm. |
10 |
| 17 | 129 |
The commander, or Blood, of a March wears only a single, simple reddish ring. |
10 |
| 18 | 525 |
A length of simple, coarse tent rope, some seven feet in length, had been knotted about his neck. |
10 |
| 18 | 606 |
It would have been a simple blow. |
10 |
| 21 | 16 |
Like any other wench, on her neck, riveted, was a simple collar of black iron. |
10 |
| 22 | 92 |
Once there had been a boy by this name, one with simple dreams, naive, vain, one shattered by a betrayal of his codes, the discovery of a weakness where he had thought there was only strength. |
10 |
| 22 | 167 |
This is a simple fetter, without links, holding the ankles crossed. |
10 |
| 22 | 182 |
Perhaps they fear to be whipped if they are not pleasing? Perhaps, behaviorally, given no choice but to act as a passionate female slave, they find, suddenly, through simple psychological relationships, they, to their horror, have become only a passionate female slave. |
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| 22 | 185 |
The second reason is presumably simple. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 387 |
Sometimes, for one reason or another, it is useful to separate or isolate given girls; too, it common to secure slaves at night, and the alcove makes this a simple matter; a single guard, with a lamp, can check a hundred girls in a few Ehn; too, if one is not in her place, it is easy to know instant... |
10 |
| 1 | 76 |
A simple band of iron had been hammered about her neck by one of the metal workers in the employ of Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 640 |
The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied in the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 669 |
The guard took the straps which had bound her ankles together, and, untying them, slipped them through the metal ring, glinting, sewn into the back of the leather collar of the harness, worn over the simple curved collar of iron which marked her, even should she be clothed, and her brand not visible... |
10 |
| 2 | 306 |
This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or... |
10 |
| 2 | 344 |
They are made on simple looms and the pile is knotted onto the warp and weft. |
10 |
| 2 | 621 |
He was a simple, poor fellow, harmless, servile, slight. |
10 |
| 2 | 633 |
It seemed to me most probable they were simple brigands. |
10 |
| 4 | 232 |
"We have shown her some simple things," he said, "about all she is now capable of". |
10 |
| 4 | 408 |
With the kaiila a simple figure-eight twist of kaiila-hair rope, above the spreading paws, below the knees, is sufficient. |
10 |
| 7 | 369 |
It is useful to our purposes, in infiltrating houses, in obtaining secrets, in seducing officers and important men, and, of course, to reward our followers and, naturally, as a simple item for exchange, a form of currency; the slave girl is usually in demand, particularly if beautiful and trained; a... |
10 |
| 10 | 65 |
Such an act, regarded as a monstrosity, goes beyond a simple act of war. |
10 |
| 10 | 238 |
"We of Two Scimitars," said the merchant, "cannot be held accountable for the lack of sophistication in such simple rogues". |
10 |
| 10 | 240 |
"To such simple rogues," smiled the merchant. |
10 |
| 10 | 351 |
"Not as a simple slave," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 162 |
"It is not clear to me," said Hassan, "why a simple date merchant, like my friend, Hakim of Tor, and I, a lowly bandit, would be of interest to one so august as yourself". |
10 |
| 14 | 514 |
I hummed to myself a simple tune, a tune I had never forgotten, a warrior tune from the northern city of Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 17 | 53 |
Could there be some capacity, some genetic predisposition for the recognition of light, like an ancient, almost lost genetic memory, buried in the tiny, simple, linear brain at the apex of its spinal column? It could not be possible I told myself. |
10 |
| 23 | 115 |
The reason for this is interesting and simple. |
10 |
| 24 | 228 |
That is a simple fact to ascertain. |
10 |
| 25 | 526 |
These are simple mechanisms. |
10 |
| 26 | 651 |
She is not a mere Gorean girl, a simple, vital, half-animal thing. |
10 |
| 26 | 696 |
I had planned this interlude of discipline with some care, first, having in mind Klima, second, a simple instance of slave instruction, one fitted for a common, average girl, this to let her know how she would stand to me. |
10 |
| 26 | 726 |
"Do not fear excessively," I said, "for these will be uncomplicated, simple, instructional strokes, for you are now to me a new slave". |
10 |
| 26 | 734 |
"Surely you are familiar enough by now with Gorean custom," I said, "to have heard of the simple admonitory or introductory beating". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
Again I felt the weight, circular, heavy, on my neck; again I heard the small sound, the stirring, simple and matter of fact, of heavy metal links. |
10 |
| 1 | 114 |
In so simple a thing as the air I breathed I rejoiced. |
10 |
| 1 | 156 |
The links were close-set, heavy, of some primitive, simple black iron. |
10 |
| 1 | 160 |
I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t... |
10 |
| 2 | 268 |
He sang in a rich voice, a simple song, as though to content himself in long treks. |
10 |
| 2 | 598 |
My ankles, too, were crossed and bound in that simple, secure fastening. |
10 |
| 2 | 914 |
The pitifulness of that pretense vanished before the simple, incontrovertible biological reality which had been impressed upon me, in the light of his uncompromising masculine dominance which he, in health and power, chose to exercise over me, a female. |
10 |
| 3 | 281 |
In the camp of my captor, however the rules were simple. |
10 |
| 3 | 330 |
In some two or three minutes she was again taken and, to my horror, was, with pleasure and ruthlessness, again subjected to the indignity of the caught female, her second captor handling her with an audacity and simple physical proprietorship scarcely inferior to that of the first. |
10 |
| 3 | 468 |
Had a simple mark on my thigh made me so different? I suspected that it had. |
10 |
| 3 | 641 |
So simple a thing thrills her to the core. |
10 |
| 3 | 644 |
It was not tasty, but I was grateful for even so simple a provender. |
10 |
| 4 | 351 |
She carried, in her hands, several strings of beads, simple necklaces, with small, wooden, colored beads. |
10 |
| 4 | 359 |
The necklaces and beads which Eta produced for me were delights of color and appeal; yet they were simple and surely of little value. |
10 |
| 4 | 367 |
Then, from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads. |
10 |
| 4 | 1083 |
He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b... |
10 |
| 5 | 98 |
I was able to formulate simple sentences by myself. |
10 |
| 5 | 648 |
Thongs had been used, not rope; the knots, simple and efficient, had been made by a warrior. |
10 |
| 6 | 289 |
In this simple manner these two strong men had shown one another, in the Gorean mode, respect. |
10 |
| 7 | 359 |
His terms were simple, that the woman be yielded to him, totally, that she be as much his, and as helplessly, though by her own free will, as any slave girl on whom he might choose to fix his collar. |
10 |
| 7 | 1014 |
She was surely more beautiful than I, but in such matters there are rightnesses which are reciprocal and subtle; it is rather like the matching together of pieces in a puzzle, the startling, unexpected fitting together of components, yielding a whole which is, in its wholeness, more precious than th... |
10 |
| 7 | 1194 |
"The name," he said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you". |
10 |
| 7 | 1321 |
"The name," he had said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you". |
10 |
| 7 | 1335 |
It was simple. |
10 |
| 8 | 31 |
The girl's choices are simple. |
10 |
| 9 | 508 |
"It is simple," said the voice. |
10 |
| 9 | 1083 |
They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm... |
10 |
| 9 | 1213 |
"It is simple," had said the voice. |
10 |
| 9 | 2109 |
From the point of simple custody there is usually not much point in braceleting, roping or chaining girls, or such, particularly after they have learned they are slaves, and that there is no escape for them. |
10 |
| 9 | 2339 |
"From now on," she said, "you are no longer simple field slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 292 |
A girl, thus, cannot rush from it; too, in leaving it, she is simple to leash. |
10 |
| 11 | 384 |
"A slave, Eta," I said, "in her kindness, once taught me simple things, that I might not be completely displeasing and would not be too often whipped". |
10 |
| 12 | 216 |
It is a simple matter of contradictory signals, honey and gall, luring and stinging, a game, a girl's game, raising hopes, then dashing them. |
10 |
| 12 | 250 |
It is simple. |
10 |
| 12 | 647 |
"Even something this simple?" "No, Master," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
10 |
| 14 | 31 |
The rules of the tavern with respect to the slave girls were simple. |
10 |
| 14 | 414 |
It was so simple. |
10 |
| 14 | 447 |
I was now only a simple paga slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 80 |
It was a simple sentence. |
10 |
| 19 | 106 |
"It is simple," said the voice. |
10 |
| 20 | 65 |
There are simple reasons for that. |
10 |
| 20 | 406 |
"Here I am not a Captain of Ar, he Clitus Vitellius, but only a seafarer, a simple oarsman from Tyros, one called Tij Rejar". |
10 |
| 21 | 29 |
How small a thing it was that he had sported with me and then, in his simple cruelty, given me to a peasant. |
10 |
| 24 | 262 |
"I shall now ask you a simple question," he said, "and you will answer it immediately and truthfully, if you would live for another five Ihn". |
10 |
| 24 | 342 |
They would be branded and made simple slave girls. |
10 |
| 25 | 108 |
I suspect we have before us, in this necklace, a simple substitution cipher". |
10 |
| 25 | 134 |
"Why should this be a simple substitution cipher?" he asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 136 |
Also I find it not implausible that it should be a simple substitution cipher because of the simplicity and convenience of such a cipher". |
10 |
| 25 | 146 |
"Add to this," said he, "the convenience of a simple substitution cipher, the absence of the necessity for a code book, the lack of need for cipher wheels or deciphering tables, and you have an arrangement of circumstances which maximizes not only security but, under the appropriate conditions, ease... |
10 |
| 25 | 234 |
It must be a dire intelligence indeed conveyed by the simple message, to disturb to such an extent so mighty a man. |
10 |
| 26 | 496 |
It was simple, and steel, straightforward and secure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 649 |
I thought it would look well incised with the standard Kajira mark of Gor; it is the first letter, in cursive script, of the word 'Kajira', the most common word for a female slave in the Gorean lexicon; it is a simple, rather floral mark, simple, befitting a slave, lovely, befitting a woman. |
10 |
| 2 | 610 |
Like many simple, primitive peoples, isolated and remote, they could live or die without being noticed. |
10 |
| 2 | 641 |
In a sense, English does, too, for the expression 'berg' is simple German for 'mountain', and the expression 'iceberg', then, is a composite word which, literally translated would yield 'ice mountain' or 'mountain of ice'. |
10 |
| 2 | 730 |
In a few moments, I sat at the tiller of the longboat, for the simple task of guiding the craft pleased me, and was being rowed to my house. |
10 |
| 3 | 27 |
Honor is important to Goreans, in a way that those of Earth might find hard to understand; for example, those of Earth find it natural that men should go to war over matters of gold and riches, but not honor; the Gorean, contrariwise, is more willing to submit matters of honor to the adjudication of... |
10 |
| 3 | 1320 |
Over this string, in the front, there was thrust a single, simple narrow rectangle of vulgar, white rep-cloth, some six inches in width, some twelve inches in length. |
10 |
| 4 | 141 |
Such a simple gesture might weaken his intensity, the height of his hatreds, his readiness to do battle. |
10 |
| 4 | 309 |
Did he not know his Rider of the High Tharlarion was en prise! Was he a child who had never played Kaissa? Did he not know how the pieces moved? No, the explanation was much more simple. |
10 |
| 6 | 715 |
"It would be simple to untie her ankles," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 775 |
It was a simple act of Gorean courtesy. |
10 |
| 9 | 135 |
That it had been accomplished by men, with simple tools, said much for the determination of the Kurii, and the rigors imposed upon its laborers by their guardsmen. |
10 |
| 9 | 219 |
Cavities are rare in Goreans, incidentally, because of their simple diet and the general absence of cruel emotional stress, with its physiological and chemical consequences, particularly during puberty. |
10 |
| 9 | 242 |
Too, as a simple matter of anthropological observation, freedom, however estimable it may be if abstractly considered, certainly does not guarantee happiness nor is it necessary to happiness. |
10 |
| 10 | 99 |
He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman. |
10 |
| 10 | 231 |
Also, there is no simple way of avoiding this danger. |
10 |
| 11 | 8 |
It had been a simple matter to don the uniforms of guards and seem to march a new chain of men east. |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
Both now seemed far from the simple Earth girls they had been. |
10 |
| 15 | 194 |
"It is very simple," I assured her. |
10 |
| 15 | 219 |
"I will show you some simple things," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 324 |
"And then, one day, on a platform in the Sardar, I learned that it was not a simple dream, but that it had been a dream to which there corresponded a fearful reality". |
10 |
| 15 | 429 |
"Some girls are surely more attractive and desirable than others," I said, "and clearly this is not a simple function of physical appearance. |
10 |
| 15 | 431 |
"There is no simple answer," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 918 |
"Do not think of the collar as a simple piece of jewelry," I said, "though it can serve that purpose. |
10 |
| 20 | 41 |
These songs are usually very simple, but some of them are quite beautiful, and some are quite touching. |
10 |
| 20 | 62 |
Songs, even simple ones, are regarded by the red hunters as being precious and rather mysterious. |
10 |
| 21 | 279 |
The matter seems a simple one. |
10 |
| 22 | 321 |
"That is a simple courtesy. |
10 |
| 23 | 75 |
No simple trader ventures north in that time. |
10 |
| 23 | 98 |
I sensed then it was not a simple beast, the degenerate and irrational descendant of survivors of a Kur ship perhaps crashed generations ago, descendants to whom the discipline and loyalty of the ship codes were meaningless, descendants who had for most practical purposes, save their cunning, revert... |
10 |
| 23 | 116 |
A simple Kur, hungry, predatory, aggressive, would have presumably seized up the body of the sleen or perhaps meat from the sled and, in the face of the charging red hunters, made away, feeding as it retreated. |
10 |
| 23 | 221 |
"Thus, if the enemy, if we may speak of them so, knew my location and your intent, to contact me, it would be simple to lay an ambush for you outside of the village". |
10 |
| 23 | 342 |
How could he have known? The answer is simple. |
10 |
| 24 | 284 |
"What can there be," I asked, "other than chains and the whip, the kiss and the collar?" "You men are so simple, so naive," she laughed. |
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| 24 | 331 |
"Only fools have simple explanations for complex phenomena," I said. |
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| 24 | 332 |
"Nothing human is simple". |
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| 26 | 350 |
But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur. |
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| 30 | 6 |
Their raiment, though simple, was rich. |
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| 30 | 37 |
The rules for the sport are simple. |
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| 32 | 59 |
"It was simple to gyroscopically stabilize and mine an ice island," it said. |
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| 32 | 84 |
But then I am only a simple soldier. |
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| 32 | 134 |
"That was simple," it said. |
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| 34 | 27 |
It was not what it seemed, a simple ice beast. |
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| 35 | 453 |
Has she not always been the more easily distracted by golden apples? But perhaps the reason is more simple. |
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| 35 | 646 |
"The string may be removed by a simple tug". |
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| 35 | 745 |
Her small wrists twisted futilely behind her in the encircling, knotted sandal string, that simple device which constituted her bond. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 70 |
It is a very simple, lovely brand, simple, as befits a slave, lovely, as befits a woman. |
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| 12 | 102 |
"The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. |
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| 1 | 12 |
It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right. |
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| 1 | 39 |
I remembered her from several months ago when I had first seen her, when she had had about her throat only a simple collar of iron, curved about her throat by the blows of a metal-worker's hammer. |
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| 1 | 129 |
The tile dance, for simple psychological and behavioral reasons, having to do with the submission context and the motions of the body, can piteously arouse even a captured, cold free woman; in the case of a slave, of course, it can make her scream and sob with need. |
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| 1 | 423 |
"She is a simple wench brought to Gor by Kur slavers, collar meat". |
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| 1 | 454 |
"It is my speculation," I said, "that the girl below in the pens, in the tharlarion cell, in spite of the fact that she is, though beautiful, less stunning than many slaves, is simple collar meat, that she was brought to Gor for straightforward disposition to a slaver, perhaps in a contract lot". |
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| 2 | 98 |
Should a girl prove sluggish in any respect, it is simple to put her under discipline. |
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| 2 | 109 |
She did not seem, objectively, of quite the same high quality of beauty as most of the wenches brought by Kurii to Gor, either as agents or as simple, immediate slaves. |
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| 5 | 104 |
I thought the girl's Gorean, though the responses were generally simple, had improved considerably in the last few days. |
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| 5 | 719 |
And yet the answer was simple. |
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| 6 | 493 |
Her immediate realities were simple. |
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| 6 | 519 |
The knot at the ring was a simple bowline, familiar to all who know the sea, brought to Gor perhaps hundreds of years ago by mariners who had once sailed the Aegean or the Mediterranean, perhaps who had once called not such ports as Schendi or Bazi their own, but Miletus or Ephesus, or Syracuse or C... |
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| 10 | 44 |
Unwanted beggars had the choice of having their passage paid from Schendi or concluding their simple careers in the harbor. |
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| 10 | 56 |
There were few tremors in Schendi which did not, sooner or later, reach Kipofu on his simple etem in the square. |
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| 12 | 15 |
"A similar argument would demonstrate," he said, "that you are not a simple speculator, interested in the resale of the notes". |
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| 12 | 30 |
"Since," said Shaba, "you come neither from Bejar nor as a simple speculator, I think we may infer that you come to us from one of two sources. |
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| 12 | 85 |
I had not known about the simple device of the threads and peas. |
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| 13 | 523 |
During the night I had taught her some small things, some techniques, little, simple things, for her mouth and hands, and breasts, her hair, her lips, and feet, and tongue. |
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| 14 | 300 |
From time to time Sasi and I made simple suggestions to the blonde who, for the first time, was being ravished. |
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| 15 | 217 |
I might have discerned this had he not appeared to be intent on misdirecting our attention, calling it to the simple warning system, that of the threads and peas, in the ceiling, presumably to effect a switch of the rings while our attention was diverted. |
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| 15 | 245 |
Such a sign would make identification simple". |
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| 16 | 54 |
Such simple phrases I could now make out, thanks to Ayari's tutoring. |
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| 16 | 158 |
"It is basically simple," said Ayari. |
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| 18 | 214 |
"It is simple," I said. |
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| 19 | 99 |
His plan then had been simple. |
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| 19 | 173 |
If you are, as I suspect, a simple thief, take it as a token of my admiration of your boldness, for it must have taken courage to enter the chamber of a Ubar". |
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| 20 | 59 |
I supposed she, too, was a barbarian, for they were a matched set, possibly also from Earth, though doubtless brought to the shores of Gor, like most, as a simple girl for the markets. |
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| 23 | 117 |
"How simple," marveled Mwoga. |
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| 27 | 235 |
The origin of the custom is probably a simple one. |
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| 32 | 422 |
The men of Earth think often of sex as a simple matter of explicit congress. |
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| 32 | 590 |
Then, by nodding his head, and a simple gesture, he indicated his approval. |
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| 32 | 1082 |
Both strings were of small, simple wooden beads, suitable for slave girls. |
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| 32 | 1094 |
"Are blue and yellow beads then," she asked, "not appropriate for me, for I am a slave?" "They are very nice," I said, "but any simple, cheap beads, say, of wood or glass, will do as well for a slave". |
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| 34 | 88 |
I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant. |
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| 34 | 814 |
For example, many women of Earth might be astonished to learn that their names, which they may regard as simple or common, names such as 'Jane' or 'Alice', are found extremely beautiful to the Gorean ear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 |
The answer to this latter difficulty might be a simple one, namely to accept what one is, in its fullness and depth, for the man to accept manhood, and the woman womanhood, whatever it might involve. |
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| 1 | 247 |
It is that simple. |
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| 4 | 228 |
The process is simple. |
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| 5 | 68 |
Interestingly, given the weeks in the pen, the simple food, the constant training and exercising, perhaps the Gorean milieu, I was beginning to feel a return of my sexuality. |
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| 7 | 60 |
Perhaps the matter was so simple as even the water and air of Gor, so fresh and pure, so stimulating, compared to that of Earth, even in the depths of the pens. |
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| 7 | 442 |
But once that is understood, that the girl is owned, literally owned, everything becomes quite simple, and quite clear. |
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| 7 | 454 |
It is not a simple thing. |
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| 7 | 791 |
"How simple and bluff are the exactions of the men of Gor in comparison. |
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| 11 | 485 |
I did not think I would mind having her arms intimately about my neck, even if but briefly, or having her so close to me, performing this simple, homely task. |
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| 12 | 223 |
From her few simple words I now understood more than I had before of the depth and significance of Gorean slavery. |
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| 12 | 283 |
"This is not a common work slave," said the Lady Tendite to the crowd, "a simple brute, an insensitive lout for your fields or stables. |
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| 16 | 13 |
Caste membership, for Goreans, is generally a simple matter of birth; it is not connected necessarily with the performance of certain skills, nor the attainment of a given level of proficiency in such skills. |
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| 27 | 138 |
And there is much that can be done, of course, with an attractive collar, and a simple, brief, lovely, well-draped, nicely cut tunic. |
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| 32 | 43 |
The common Gorean leash, incidentally, unlike the simple strap I was using, has a lock snap and closes either about a collar or a collar ring. |
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| 32 | 346 |
"You will be an object in a simple business transaction". |
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| 34 | 12 |
I heard the ringing of a metal-worker's hammer on metal, where simple straps of iron were being curved about the necks of beauties, their heads and hair over the anvil, these serving as temporary collars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 345 |
The reason is simple though she may not suspect it for some time. |
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| 7 | 158 |
It is by means of these clips that the chain can be transformed from a simple piece of slave jewelry into a sturdy and effective device of slave restraint. |
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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 | 203 |
It is interesting how a girl in a simple rag with steel on her neck will clean and brush herself, and pose and display herself, with the same zest and pleasure with which a free woman arranges ornate robes and a multitude of colorful veils. |
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| 11 | 252 |
It was simple, narrow, close-fitting, of gleaming steel. |
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| 23 | 127 |
Similarly, as may be understood in terms of a simple simile, if one is holding an implement and it is struck with greater force it will be more difficult and tiring to return it to its original position than if it has not been struck heavily and has not been moved significantly. |
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| 27 | 91 |
"But there is a simple solution to our mutual difficulty," he said, "one which is in our common interest". |
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| 29 | 11 |
It would have seemed simple enough, then, to have brought enough men into the stronghold, posing as the men of Ragnar Voskjard, to take Policrates by surprise. |
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| 30 | 25 |
But free men, I knew, were often too simple or ignorant to gather up the unclaimed booty which might lie about them, even though such booty might beg piteously to serve, and to be taken into their homes, to be treasured. |
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| 30 | 26 |
It is not easy always, of course, to recognize a slave who wears the robes and veils of concealment; the identification becomes simple, of course, once she has been put in a collar and slave tunic. |
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| 30 | 52 |
"Did you truly think to gain access to our stronghold with so simple a ruse?" asked Policrates. |
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| 31 | 67 |
"It is very simple," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 184 |
In so simple a fashion, by hand feeding, and floor watering, not permitting the slave to use her hands, I had demonstrated to her, in the Gorean fashion, that her food and water, even such simple things as whether she was to eat or drink, or not, were in my control. |
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| 1 | 133 |
Did they truly think to engage us? Our galley, like most of Gorean construction, was low and shallow drafted, but still its bulwarks would loom above the gunnels of a simple longboat. |
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| 8 | 66 |
Unclothed, for example, she finds even the snap of a strap to one side, a foot from her body, or the simple slap of a switch into one's palm, quite significant. |
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| 8 | 475 |
"And I have you by simple capture, for nothing. |
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| 9 | 192 |
This is a simple Gorean procedure, not uncommon, for determining that a girl encountered in the darkness is both helpless and unarmed. |
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| 11 | 166 |
The common camisk is a simple rectangle of cloth, containing, in its center, a circular opening. |
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| 11 | 213 |
In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat. |
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| 17 | 852 |
Little is simple in the relation of master and slave, other perhaps than that she is slave and he is master". |
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| 19 | 430 |
But, "officially," of course, the functions of the collar are simple. |
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| 19 | 444 |
Lastly, many animals wear collars; that is not a matter of simple happenstance; the throat is the natural place, for a variety of reasons, on which to place an animal's identificatory control and guidance device; all owners and trainers agree on that; and the slave girl, too, of course, is an animal... |
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| 19 | 964 |
If this was not true, then, as a simple matter of economics, it is highly unlikely that she would have been brought to Gor. |
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| 20 | 259 |
All was simple, tasteful and unpretentious. |
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| 20 | 303 |
She may also be chained for so simple a reason as that her master merely chooses to do so. |
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| 20 | 343 |
"The Vosk League," smiled Tasdron, "is a simple league, whose intent it is merely to control piracy on the river". |
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| 20 | 1532 |
None are simple. |
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| 21 | 161 |
I enjoyed making her perform this simple, homely act in my presence. |
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| 21 | 756 |
On Earth I supposed that a girl might be proud of a man for the simple reason that he was strong enough to be her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 87 |
Each place on the bench is fitted with ankle and wrist stocks, and for each bench, if the barge was being used for its customary purpose, the transport of female slaves, there would also have been a simple, convenient plank collar. |
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| 2 | 94 |
When tenanted the device is usually locked shut, though simple pins are as effective for holding purposes as the women cannot reach them. |
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| 3 | 62 |
I was pleased to hear this simple confession from the girl, this straightforward, uncompromising admission of the reality of her sex. |
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| 3 | 63 |
How few of the women of my old world, I thought, could bring themselves, even to their lovers, to make this same, simple admission. |
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| 8 | 940 |
And, obviously, if one is dealing with women, a simple rope, or cord, may be used. |
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| 8 | 942 |
The most common form of coffle for long treks between particular markets is a throat coffle utilizing simple chain and collar iron. |
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| 11 | 178 |
It is as simple as that. |
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| 11 | 188 |
"My lessons for you today," said Ginger, "are basically quite simple. |
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| 13 | 62 |
That simple phrase had doubtless on many occasions, though not always, saved many stripped, collared slaves from fearful punishments. |
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| 13 | 68 |
Indeed, much may be done with means so simple even as the stroke of a hand, the twisting of an arm, the manner in which her body is penetrated. |
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| 13 | 1116 |
"It is simple to use a mere slave well". |
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| 13 | 1723 |
Whereas the slave may be used as a snack, and often is, as a bite seized upon the run, so to speak, a simple convenience to be put over a chair or flung to the floor, she may also find herself constituting a number of courses, so to speak, in the master's banquet. |
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| 17 | 82 |
One supposes the red savages could trade for them, but this, and other simple arrangements, seem to be preferred, perhaps because of custom or tradition. |
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| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
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| 17 | 467 |
This is a simple collaring ceremony. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 176 |
She would get dressed, donning the brief, simple shirtdress of hide she had been given, and report back, head down and kneeling, to Grunt, her master. |
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| 7 | 868 |
I saw, too, in so simple an exchange, that Cuwignaka was intellectually dominant over Bloketu. |
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| 9 | 585 |
Legally, of course, there are simple transactions. |
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| 11 | 121 |
I shall not, therefore, attempt to reduce it to simple terms or translate it into simplistic concepts. |
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| 12 | 171 |
The free end of the tether is slipped under the bond leading up from the wrists to prevent the girl from slipping it by the simple expedient of lowering and dipping her head a few times. |
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| 16 | 177 |
How naive is the man who believes that having sex with a woman is so little or brief a thing as to fall within the parameters of a horizontal plane, the simple stimulations of a skin, the results attendant upon a simplistic manual dexterity. |
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| 19 | 142 |
"Doubtless they were interested in a more precise judgment of time than might be afforded by simple visual sightings". |
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| 22 | 292 |
There is no simple translation for 'Owopte' but, literally, it means the place from which a turnip is dug. |
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| 28 | 217 |
As we could protect ourselves reasonably well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvious, then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction. |
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| 33 | 321 |
How simple and crude, how naive, sometimes seems the intelligence of men compared to the intelligence of women. |
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| 33 | 433 |
"It seems to me a simple, suitable name for a slave," I said. |
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| 39 | 200 |
A warrior may secure such women with devices so simple as thumb-cuffs, like tiny, joined rings, and snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, nose-rings, with strands of wire, to fasten them together. |
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| 40 | 678 |
It is as simple as that. |
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| 40 | 833 |
It is simple, sensuous and luscious. |
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| 40 | 908 |
"It is bold and simple," he said. |
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| 43 | 39 |
It was extremely simple and plain. |
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| 43 | 279 |
I then fastened the straps together behind her neck with a simple over-and-under knot. |
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| 43 | 284 |
The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl... |
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| 43 | 327 |
Did the well-tied little thing really think she could free herself? Did she not know she had been tied by a warrior, Hci, of the Kaiila? But there is a simple way to stop such squirming. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 353 |
Perhaps they were less simple than the men of Earth, or more simple, more basic and natural. |
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| 2 | 474 |
I was then again a simple, typical, naive young female of my culture, shaken, confused, and terrified, not understanding what was being done to her, or why, and fearing a looming, unfamiliar future, to which she might be destined, one doubtless quite other than those which she might have otherwise p... |
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| 3 | 398 |
And yet, now, how simple, how obvious and plausible, seemed such an explanation of the girl's garb, and of the mark on her body, and of the collar on her neck. |
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| 6 | 108 |
The story in the song drama, in itself, apart from its complex embellishments, was a simple one. |
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| 8 | 179 |
Yet how simple, how straightforward and liberating might be such a confession. |
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| 11 | 182 |
I could no longer be so simple as to pretend to myself that my womanhood was best served by its own frustration, suppression and denial. |
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| 18 | 105 |
"Things, then, are not so simple," said the Archon's man. |
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| 19 | 98 |
We will begin with simple things". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 487 |
How strange it then seemed to me that I, the former Doreen Williamson, of Earth, a shy librarian, should now be elated that she had some simple, independent value as a female, if only as slave meat! Then I realized how superficial was my view of this matter, even in so simple a business as vending a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 52 |
Could things be that simple? Perhaps they were that simple. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 25 |
She had hated Tutina from the first, even from the moment she had first seen her at the opera, so long ago, probably because she had seemed simple, stupid and so beautiful, but, more likely, as she was, in fact, neither simple nor stupid, because she was beautiful and was with the young man. |
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| 12 | 343 |
To be sure, already on Gor, perhaps because of the air, or the water, or the simple, decent, nourishing food, or perhaps, primarily, because of the simple differences in this world, so fresh, natural and innocent, the immersion in a different culture, so very different from her own, with its differe... |
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| 17 | 855 |
And yet it was not a matter of simple sensation, no simple episode, even lingering, of the excitation of tissues. |
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| 17 | 900 |
A man sees a girl he wants and his objective judgment as to the market worth of the given property can be clouded, perhaps by simple desire, a simple desire to buy and own, totally, a particularly delightful, curvaceous property, but perhaps by something else, too, mixed with desire, and powerful lu... |
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| 20 | 600 |
Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 266 |
As few could not, by simple movement, a subtle alteration of position, a simple variance of attack, quickly dispatch a foe so handicapped, I thought Seremides must be a fellow of great courage, to have dragged himself to the deck, and worked his way, painfully, awkwardly, his body suspended on his c... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 475 |
Had I detected a thrill of submission in those simple words? Had the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species suddenly become real to her? Did she understand it at last? Did she sense the possible fulfillments, and liberation, of the collar, the joy of a sensed, unalloyed, apprehended truth, a... |
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