| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 186 |
"At best, I would be picked up by slavers and sold in the Street of Brands". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 65 |
Slim though her chances might be to escape wild beasts or slavers, they would be greater than the chance of escaping the wrath of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 6 | 166 |
"One of whom?" I asked, now alert, for if there were slavers on the trail of this girl it would mean trouble, perhaps bloodshed. |
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| 22 | 197 |
Most professional slavers would have furnished far more. |
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| 25 | 125 |
She might fall prey to beasts, perhaps even to her own tarn, or be captured by a roving tarnsman or a band of slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 |
Although no one may be enslaved at the fair, slaves may be bought and sold within its precincts, and slavers do a thriving business, exceeded perhaps only by that of Ar's Street of Brands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 297 |
The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing... |
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| 13 | 81 |
Then, before I could realize what he intended, he had subjected Miss Cardwell to what, among slavers, is known as the Whip Caress. |
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| 13 | 85 |
The Whip Caress is commonly used among Slavers to force a girl to betray herself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 146 |
Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these... |
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| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
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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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| 4 | 133 |
I was gambling on the unpleasant sense of humor not uncommonly found among slavers. |
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| 4 | 239 |
I then began to suspect that my gamble, based on the often unpleasant sense of humor common among slavers, might begin to bear fruit. |
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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 | 169 |
On the other hand these men were slavers and not accustomed to take chances with merchandise. |
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| 7 | 178 |
Gorean slavers, it might be mentioned, seldom lose prisoners. |
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| 9 | 13 |
Slavers are angry, incidentally, when a city does fall, for then the market is likely to be depressed for months, due to the influx of new slaves, sometimes numbered in the thousands. |
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| 9 | 14 |
The slavers, by the way, indulge in speculation and manipulation whenever possible, trying to anticipate changes in fashion or control them. |
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| 9 | 15 |
I suspected that the House of Cernus was attempting to create a need for barbarian girls, if only to add variety to a rich man's Pleasure Gardens—girls of a sort it seemed it could supply in numbers not possible to competing slavers. |
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| 9 | 22 |
Many of these, of course, are simply put in pens and retained there until removed for sale; some lots are wholesaled to minor slavers, usually coming in from distant cities to pick up merchandise, which tends in Ar to be abundant and, on the whole, reasonably priced. |
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| 9 | 42 |
I knew that in such places private auctions were sometimes conducted, discreetly, for favored clientele, many times slavers themselves. |
10 |
| 9 | 43 |
At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc... |
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| 11 | 7 |
The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th... |
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| 11 | 53 |
I then understood for the first time that it is not just any girl who is picked up by the Gorean slavers, but that the acquisition of each of these doubtless had been planned with the same diligence and care that is given to a slave raid on Gor itself. |
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| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
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| 15 | 146 |
I supposed they had succumbed to gold, for slavers pay high for their hired swords. |
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| 15 | 226 |
"These men are slavers," Elizabeth confided to them. |
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| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
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| 15 | 400 |
The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different. |
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| 15 | 401 |
Yet, if one of them were to seek Caste Sanctuary, he would surely seek it from Slavers, and not from common Merchants. |
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| 15 | 402 |
Many Slavers think of themselves as an independent caste. |
10 |
| 15 | 404 |
The average Gorean thinks of them simply as Slavers, but, if questioned, would unhesitantly rank them with the Merchants. |
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| 16 | 3 |
The men of the House of Portus, who had been Slavers and mercenaries the equals of those of the House of Cernus, had now been disbanded, some leaving the city, some taking their gold from new masters, some even hiring their swords to the House of Cernus. |
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| 16 | 52 |
At any rate, regardless of the reasoning, or the stratagems of Slavers, Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis were permitted to attend the first day of the races, under, of course, suitable guard. |
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| 17 | 85 |
I heard the angry cries of the girls and their fists on the door for a moment, but then I heard them suddenly begin shrieking, and crying out, as though slavers might have fallen upon them. |
10 |
| 18 | 369 |
Each seemed piled with boxes; I recognized the boxes as being of the general sort which I had seen unloaded from the Slavers' ship in the Voltai. |
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| 19 | 66 |
One striking set of mosaics details a slave raid from its initial planning phases through the successful return of the Slavers, on tarnback, to Ar with their stunning victims; another picks up this story from the registration and training of prizes to the block of the Curulean itself; another record... |
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| 19 | 69 |
I would suppose that the Slavers, many of them sophisticated, rather cosmopolitan men, who come to Ar from many distant cities, must find such mosaics delightful; I am sure they have seen similar representations in their own cities, only there it is perhaps a wench of Ar who kneels, frightened, obed... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 44 |
There are various types of "exotics" bred by Gorean slavers, all of whom are to be distinguished from more normal varieties of bred slaves, such as Passion Slaves and Draft Slaves. |
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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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| 5 | 243 |
"Slavers!" I heard cry. |
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| 5 | 244 |
"Slavers!". |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
Slavers I was out of the hut. |
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| 6 | 197 |
On the other side there were the lights and torches, the cries of men, the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 7 | 3 |
Those who had so concealed themselves must then choose between the fire, the marsh, and the nets of slavers. |
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| 7 | 41 |
One of the slavers, a man with a conical helmet, called the animal to him. |
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| 7 | 50 |
The slavers of Port Kar, being in their way wise men, seldom betray and enslave those such as Henrak, who have served them so well. |
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| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
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| 7 | 191 |
I looked westward, the direction that had been taken by the heavily laden barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 15 |
I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 9 | 273 |
I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort put in the pouring sling, and reeled out of the tavern, making my way along the narrow walkway lining the canal... |
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| 18 | 630 |
I had little doubt that having been taught the might of the great bow in the marshes, when I had freed them from the slavers in the barges, they had traded for the weapons and now had made them their own, and proudly, as much as the peasants. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 34 |
It is not that the girl is likely to escape, for slavers seldom lose prisoners. |
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| 7 | 104 |
He also purchased certain articles of slavers' equipment, a display chain, various other sorts of chains, slave bracelets, ankle rings, neck collars, binding fibers, branding irons and whips. |
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| 7 | 442 |
It is said that some slavers, standing before a captured, stripped free woman, can make this determination. |
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| 10 | 274 |
I remembered awakening, lying in a Gorean field, some hundred yards or so from the black wreckage of the slavers' ship. |
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| 10 | 321 |
"But, unfortunately for us, your capture was effected by slavers, and they wished to take you south for a better price. |
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| 11 | 148 |
The food was better in the private pens, where we were trained, than in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba, areas of which were available for rent to passing slavers, where we were housed at night. |
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| 11 | 309 |
Some prudish slavers, scandalized by ear piercing, refused to have it done to their girls, but Targo, doubtless because of the gold involved, had insisted upon it. |
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| 11 | 1002 |
I supposed that Gorean slavers, on Earth, discerned slave girls, natural slaves, those who belonged in collars, and, making discriminating selections, arranged for their transportation to the markets of Gor. |
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| 11 | 1158 |
Once, there was a visitor to the pens, a tall stranger, partially hooded, who wore robes of blue and yellow silk, those of the Slavers. |
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| 12 | 9 |
Also, it is thought by slavers that it is, upon occasion, good for a girl to find herself naked and behind bars. |
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| 12 | 438 |
Still, these hostels, where they are to be found, are welcome, both to common merchants and to slavers, and even to travelers. |
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| 13 | 111 |
Her ship fell to those of the black slavers of Schendi. |
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| 13 | 112 |
She, and the others, were sold to merchants, who met the slavers at a secret cove, buying from them their catch. |
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| 13 | 456 |
"Slavers! Run!" "I know," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 481 |
Ute and I had been desperately trying to reach them, I would tell them, only we had fallen in with slavers and, unfortunately, only I had escaped. |
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| 14 | 223 |
I wondered, too, if those chests might contain the light, precious chains of silver and gold, wrought by slavers so cunningly, to hold a girl in given positions, while she was subdued at a master's leisure. |
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| 15 | 139 |
It might even have been as though it were not I who had betrayed her to the slavers of Haakon of Skjern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 323 |
"Take him," said Samos, "to one of the large rooms, well appointed, in which we lodge slavers of high rank, of distant cities". |
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| 4 | 181 |
"Why did they not permit you to join their band? Did they think you were a scout, a spy, for slavers?" "No," she said. |
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| 5 | 210 |
The boards are alternately painted blue and yellow, the slavers' colors. |
10 |
| 5 | 308 |
Outlaws seldom command, from professional slavers, the prices which others might. |
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| 8 | 4 |
Much depends, of course, on the number of slavers, the nature of the quarry, and the particulars of a given chase or hunt. |
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| 8 | 32 |
It is not simply that there is great danger to the slavers themselves, in the shiftings and blazings of such a conflagration, but rather that the forest, the sheltering and beautiful forest, is felt as being injured. |
10 |
| 11 | 314 |
Sometimes slavers use these differences to separate the two categories of Gorean female. |
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| 13 | 347 |
"I was taken by slavers and brought to Gor". |
10 |
| 15 | 560 |
"Then you were taken by Gorean slavers". |
10 |
| 15 | 622 |
"You were brought by slavers to this world," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 628 |
"I congratulate the slavers on their taste," I said. |
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| 15 | 632 |
"I am glad," I told her, "that the slavers brought you to Gor". |
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| 15 | 938 |
Her old name had been hers as a free person, publicly registered, legally certified, historically identified with her throughout her life, until her capture by slavers. |
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| 18 | 119 |
Perhaps the enemy had been a group of slavers. |
10 |
| 18 | 124 |
The pattern of strikes had not been unlike that which might have distinguished the predations of slavers. |
10 |
| 18 | 125 |
They probably believed their unseen antagonists to be slavers. |
10 |
| 18 | 140 |
Doubtless Sarus and his men, not attacked since the night of the girls' druggings, were convinced that the "slavers" who had harried them at last were satisfied. |
10 |
| 18 | 147 |
And if the "slavers" who had pursued them wished more plunder, they had left them seventy-five strong male slaves, helpless for their harvesting to their own chains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 51 |
Ear piercing, from this time, had begun to spread rapidly through the north, masters, and slavers, often inflicting it on their girls. |
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| 8 | 148 |
It is sometimes used by tarnsmen; it is often used by slavers. |
10 |
| 10 | 319 |
I saw, too, four slavers, perfumed, in their robes of blue and yellow silk, come north to buy women. |
10 |
| 10 | 335 |
There are judges, usually minor Jarls and slavers. |
10 |
| 10 | 498 |
Then she had been caught by slavers. |
10 |
| 10 | 517 |
On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; Gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had been, one of s... |
10 |
| 10 | 567 |
Since the Nest War the probes of aliens had grown more bold, even on Gor; they had little difficulty in taking female slaves on Earth; gold, exchangeable for materials essential to their enterprises, was well guarded on Earth; it could seldom be obtained in quantities without attracting the attentio... |
10 |
| 10 | 572 |
Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 153 |
In training a man to use the iron slavers always give him poorer women at first, sometimes having him mark them more than once, until he becomes proficient. |
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| 2 | 155 |
It is important for the girl's thigh to be held immobile; sometimes it is held by more than one man; sometimes it is bound to a wagon wheel; sometimes, in the house of slavers, a heavy, vise-equipped metal branding rack is used. |
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| 7 | 526 |
It might be noted, in passing, that high intelligence in a female, as nearly as I can determine, is almost always of great importance to Gorean slavers. |
10 |
| 9 | 171 |
Furthermore, slavers tend to pay more highly for free women than slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 169 |
This infamous port is the home port of the famed black slavers of Schendi, a league of slavers well known for their cruel depredations on shipping, but it is also a free port, administered by black merchants, and its fine harbor and its inland markets to the north and east attract much commerce. |
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| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
10 |
| 3 | 538 |
It was natural, given the fact that the dina is the "slave flower," that eventually enterprising slavers, warriors and merchants, those with an interest in the buying and selling of women, should develop a brand based on the flower. |
10 |
| 3 | 551 |
This development, though perhaps a disappointment to certain merchants and slavers, was not unwelcome to the girls who bore the brand, though few cared for their feelings. |
10 |
| 5 | 398 |
"Do you flee slavers?" he asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 400 |
"We are not slavers". |
10 |
| 7 | 425 |
She was a girl of peasant stock, who had been, two years ago, stolen by slavers from a village hundreds of pasangs to the west. |
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,... |
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| 16 | 170 |
It is thought that an agreement exists between the merchants of Schendi and the members of the league of black slavers, though I know of few who have proclaimed this publicly in Schendi and lived. |
10 |
| 16 | 171 |
The evidence, if evidence it is that such an agreement exists, is that the black slavers tend to avoid preying on shipping which plies to and from Schendi. |
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| 20 | 63 |
Indeed, I suspected that intelligence figured into the criteria of acquisition commonly used by slavers. |
10 |
| 24 | 73 |
I have no doubt that the slavers sometimes make their assessments with such things in mind. |
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| 28 | 36 |
It is painted for the most part in blue and yellow, the colors of the slavers, and ornately carved, with many intricate patterns and projections. |
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| 28 | 86 |
The bench is at the right side of the tunnel as the slavers' men are mostly right-handed. |
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| 28 | 156 |
Although this does tend to bring in larger early crowds the slavers feel that, often, they do not get on these girls what they might have, had their sale taken place later in the evening, in the heat and press of more determined bidding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 170 |
Some are preyed upon by bandits and slavers. |
10 |
| 3 | 176 |
Schendi, incidentally, is the home port of the league of black slavers. |
10 |
| 3 | 177 |
Certain positions and platforms at the fairs are usually reserved for the black slavers, where they may market their catches, beauties of all races. |
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| 3 | 270 |
Before I left the fair I would inspect the major market, that beyond the smithies and chain shops, where the most numerous exhibition platforms were erected, near the great sales pavilion of blue and yellow silk, the colors of the slavers. |
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| 3 | 394 |
They are rented to individual slavers, who, reserving them before the fairs, would rent one or more, or several, depending on their riches and the numbers of their stock. |
10 |
| 3 | 438 |
These are usually sold in groups at wholesale prices in sales restricted to professional slavers, who will transport them to other markets, to dispose of them there. |
10 |
| 3 | 635 |
Slavers do not put chains or bonds over stockings; similarly, if wrists are to be chained or bound, gloves would be removed; bonds are not placed over clothing. |
10 |
| 3 | 638 |
Earth-girl slaves, thanks to the raids of Kur slavers, are not as rare on Gor as they used to be. |
10 |
| 3 | 660 |
But do chains not look well on any woman? But is not any woman a true slave? I commended the taste and judgment of the Kur slavers. |
10 |
| 9 | 81 |
As a matter of fact intelligence is one of the major criteria used by Gorean slavers when scouting an Earth girl for capture and abduction to the chains of Gor. |
10 |
| 9 | 207 |
It is said that skilled slavers can detect a slave even when clad in the robes of concealment. |
10 |
| 15 | 498 |
Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free men for work projects; the... |
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| 15 | 681 |
'Then slavers seldom permit their girls to be fully used?" she asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 731 |
Slavers prefer for their sales to be final. |
10 |
| 15 | 855 |
"Such women would be the prime target for the strike of slavers," she said. |
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| 35 | 446 |
How different such women are, I thought, hard, cruel, calculating, cunning, ambitious operatives, from the more typical women brought to Gor, soft, supine, vulnerable, unconscious, naked, in slave capsules, an identification anklet locked on their left ankle, women selected with different objectives... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 197 |
It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers. |
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| 1 | 423 |
"She is a simple wench brought to Gor by Kur slavers, collar meat". |
10 |
| 1 | 438 |
"I have great respect for the taste and discrimination of Kur slavers," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 460 |
Kur slavers do not, usually, brand their girls. |
10 |
| 1 | 742 |
It was also the home port of the League of Black Slavers but their predations were commonly restricted to the high seas and coastal towns well north and south of Schendi. |
10 |
| 5 | 344 |
"Do not forget that Schendi is the home port of the black slavers". |
10 |
| 5 | 725 |
Slavers have discovered that a pierced-ear girl commands a higher price. |
10 |
| 6 | 178 |
I had seen the passing of the fleet of the black slavers of Schendi. |
10 |
| 6 | 185 |
We had lain to after more closely approaching the port of Schendi in the evening of the preceding day, the day in which we had seen the fleet of the black slavers of Schendi. |
10 |
| 6 | 549 |
Slaves, interestingly, do not count as one of the major products in Schendi, in spite of the fact that the port is the headquarters of the League of Black Slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 550 |
The black slavers usually sell their catches nearer the markets, both to the north and south. |
10 |
| 6 | 598 |
I saw two slavers stop at the wharf, looking up at the slaves suspended from the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 603 |
That the two girls had attracted the attention of passing slavers was high praise indeed for their unconcealed charms. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
It is a device often used by slavers. |
10 |
| 7 | 212 |
"You are one of the most honest slavers I have ever met," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 185 |
Gorean slavers usually keep their lovely prizes drugged en route between worlds. |
10 |
| 32 | 474 |
Kur slavers tended to bring such women to Gor. |
10 |
| 32 | 1086 |
"Are blue and yellow not the colors of the slavers?" she asked. |
10 |
| 32 | 1089 |
The wagons of slavers often have blue and yellow canvas. |
10 |
| 33 | 145 |
Some slavers specialize in dancers, renting them, and buying and selling them. |
10 |
| 48 | 265 |
Such girls usually beg piteously to be sold to transient slavers. |
10 |
| 57 | 137 |
The talunas, last night, in a lot, had been sold to the black slavers of Schendi. |
10 |
| 57 | 142 |
They would be kept for a time in one of the underground pens beneath one of the fortresses of the black slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 321 |
"If the slavers of Gor have decided to take you, my dear," I said, "they certainly will not sit about waiting for you to take a trip to the Caribbean". |
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| 1 | 324 |
I wondered, if there were Gorean slavers, if she might indeed not be the sort of woman they regard as suitable for their chains. |
10 |
| 1 | 332 |
"Besides," I smiled, "if the slavers swoop down and carry you off, perhaps you will eventually, sometime, find a master who will be kind to you". |
10 |
| 1 | 633 |
"It is easy to see why the slavers of Gor would be interested in you," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 320 |
"I fell across the path of slavers. |
10 |
| 5 | 209 |
"Tomorrow you are to be appraised by woman slavers from the market of Tima". |
10 |
| 6 | 12 |
We were being examined by five women, veiled and robed, woman slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 17 |
They were predominantly blue and yellow in their colors, which are the colors of the slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 70 |
I then realized that Lola's garb, so demure and modest for a female slave, so unlike the usual bit of rag knotted at her left hip, must be because of the presence of the woman slavers in the pens. |
10 |
| 6 | 97 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Lola, casting a frightened glance at the Lady Gina, and, too, at the female slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 105 |
Two of the woman slavers laughed. |
10 |
| 6 | 122 |
"Interesting," said one of the woman slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 170 |
The Lady Gina then left the room, followed by most of the women slavers. |
10 |
| 7 | 528 |
I recalled that Gorean slavers brought Earth women to Gor as slaves. |
10 |
| 10 | 88 |
They had known then, I suppose, as slavers can know such things, that no more than one man would be necessary to see to my governance. |
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| 11 | 323 |
This was, of all things, my old clothing, the clothing I had worn on Earth the night on which Miss Beverly Henderson, a lovely quarry of Gorean slavers, had been abducted and I, unwittingly, had become implicated in her fate. |
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| 11 | 554 |
It was true that often, in slave pens, and in the houses of slavers, women were kept nude, save for their collars. |
10 |
| 16 | 41 |
Slavers, for example, sometimes think of themselves as being of the Merchants, and sometimes as being a separate caste. |
10 |
| 16 | 141 |
Similarly most cities will have their "Street of Brands," on which street, or in which area, one would expect to find the houses of its slavers. |
10 |
| 17 | 64 |
"Slavers sometimes use it," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 7 |
Blue and yellow, too, of course, are the colors of the slavers. |
10 |
| 18 | 9 |
To be sure, in barns and such the color yellow usually predominates, whereas in the colors of slavers, exhibited in such places as in the blue and yellow of the canvas covering slave wagons or in the blue and yellow of the tenting of slave pavilions, the blue and yellow is, or tends to be, more equa... |
10 |
| 22 | 222 |
Slavers can tell a woman's collar size at a glance. |
10 |
| 22 | 422 |
They were strong men, and slavers. |
10 |
| 22 | 480 |
They were slavers. |
10 |
| 22 | 780 |
Even if the security of Tenalion were not perfect, as is that of most slavers, making escape impossible, where would a naked woman in a collar go? If she should escape one master, surely she would soon fall to another. |
10 |
| 29 | 52 |
"Slavers," I said, "follow the paths, and projected paths, of armies. |
10 |
| 30 | 62 |
A test for slave potential used by some slavers is to leash a new girl and see if she, in her apparent rebellion and defiance, actually, subtly, perhaps in the beginning unconsciously, uses the leash to enhance her desirability and beauty. |
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| 34 | 8 |
They were slavers' men. |
10 |
| 34 | 57 |
It is better conducted in slavers' houses, on colorful, smooth-tiled floors, in spacious rooms, often encircled with mirrors, so that the girls may gather some sense of how lovely they are, and how beautiful and desirable they are becoming, in their training, and, indeed, must become. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 341 |
One of the major criteria utilized by slavers, for example, was the native intelligence of the potential acquisition. |
10 |
| 1 | 352 |
Another criterion used by slavers which may not be immediately evident to everyone is an initial assessment of the candidate's potential for unusual sexual responsiveness. |
10 |
| 4 | 119 |
I think there is something to this theory for, statistically, it is almost always the female slave and not her free sister who finds herself abducted and struggling in the lashings of captors or slavers. |
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| 4 | 122 |
Some slavers specialize in the capture of free women. |
10 |
| 4 | 343 |
"How is it," I asked, "that a free woman should have among her belongings such unusual articles as a Ta-Teera and a collar?" "I have been associated," she said, "with female slavers, of the house of Tima. |
10 |
| 4 | 450 |
"That is something slavers are supposedly good at?" I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 463 |
This, of course, at least the binding part of it, had nothing to do with the slavers' caste, though they well know their business. |
10 |
| 9 | 46 |
Many of the men at the sales barn were professional slavers, from other towns and cities, looking for bargains. |
10 |
| 9 | 170 |
She had been found beautiful enough, and desirable enough, obviously, to have been taken by Gorean slavers. |
10 |
| 9 | 171 |
Yes, taken—by Gorean slavers. |
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| 21 | 13 |
I think that I have already, earlier, given some general indications as to the sort of criteria apparently used by Gorean slavers in, as it is sometimes said, harvesting from the slave fields of Earth. |
10 |
| 21 | 332 |
Slavers, not unoften, deprive a female slave of a man's touch for two or three days before her sale. |
10 |
| 24 | 258 |
Such marks, and fillings in the teeth, are used by slavers as almost infallible signs of Earth origin. |
10 |
| 24 | 301 |
I was captured there by slavers and brought to Gor, that I might wear a collar and learn to serve true men—such as you, Master, who are so strong that you have stripped me, and bound me and put me at your feet, your slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 295 |
The slavers of Gor well knew their business. |
10 |
| 19 | 414 |
Is that so hard to understand? Who, honestly, would not want to own such a woman? Who, honestly, would not want such a beauty, such a wench, in his collar? And so, naturally, these are the sorts of women slavers seek. |
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| 19 | 965 |
To be sure, slavers are human, and they doubtless, sometimes, bring a woman to Gor for their personal gratification. |
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| 19 | 966 |
Those slavers who are natively Gorean expect arrogance and insolence from Gorean free women, who, after all, are free, but they do not find it acceptable in Earth women, whom they regard for the most part as uncollared slave stock. |
10 |
| 19 | 1084 |
The "slavers' necklaces" had seldom been so bejeweled. |
10 |
| 20 | 598 |
Slavers, of course, approve of such platforms because they make free women easier to apprehend. |
10 |
| 20 | 1616 |
And the slavers intend to see to it that they get them. |
10 |
| 21 | 579 |
Slavers seek out the best of women, those who are, at least potentially, the most appetitious, the most feminine, the most desirable, the most beautiful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 388 |
Like many slavers and pirates, Samos was, basically, a good fellow. |
10 |
| 2 | 208 |
Direct council support, for example, has never been petitioned by the Slavers". |
10 |
| 4 | 119 |
The delivery points for slavers in league with Kurii shifted about on the surface of Gor. |
10 |
| 4 | 142 |
To be sure, the slavers in league with the Kurii usually distributed these girls throughout various markets. |
10 |
| 7 | 10 |
His caste, even in the town of Kailiauk, was that of the slavers. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
Unbranded women, of course, may be sold privately, for example, as fresh captures to slavers or, say, to men who have speculated that they might find them of interest. |
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| 8 | 77 |
This is, I think, in part a response to buyer pressure and, in part, the result of an unwillingness on the part of most perimeter slavers to devote time, or much time, to such niceties as diet, exercise and training. |
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| 8 | 179 |
The fact that she was dressed as she was led me to believe that the woman worked in business and that she had been taken by the slavers on her way home from work. |
10 |
| 13 | 82 |
The slavers, I thought, had done well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 80 |
Gorean slavers, you see, are judicious in their selections. |
10 |
| 3 | 7 |
The slavers who had originally selected her to wear a Gorean collar had known their business. |
10 |
| 23 | 60 |
It is known to the slavers of the cities, and to the men of the cities, of course, as well as to the savages of the Barrens. |
10 |
| 39 | 207 |
Slavers, thus, prior to putting their properties on the block, are more and more inclined to have this done to them. |
10 |
| 44 | 121 |
Some slavers use hoods to considerably reduce a girl's taming time. |
10 |
| 44 | 212 |
I was reminded of the girls at the training stakes in the pens of slavers, in the cities. |
10 |
| 44 | 702 |
It is little wonder that slavers, in displaying their wares, even though there is nowhere for the girls to run, commonly have recourse to custodial hardware. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 136 |
It had been no mistake on the part of slavers that she had been brought to Gor. |
10 |
| 6 | 220 |
Outside the establishments of slavers there often hung streamers and banners in these colors, and sometimes, on the walls, or doors, or posts near the doors, these colors, in diagonal stripes or slashes, were painted. |
10 |
| 6 | 244 |
"It is natural for slavers to wish to get the highest possible prices for their girls," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 133 |
The formula, too, I had learned, at the insistence of masters and slavers, had been improved by the caste of physicians within the last few years. |
10 |
| 8 | 35 |
Such would be a violation of the ethics of the slavers. |
10 |
| 10 | 80 |
"Who were they?" "Probably slavers," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 83 |
"Slavers?" I whispered, in horror. |
10 |
| 14 | 65 |
What if these visitors were not opportunists or slavers. |
10 |
| 26 | 243 |
Some reasons, I gather, for the veiling of free women, aside from questions of modesty, is to mark their distinction from slaves and render them less likely to be targeted by, and predated upon by, professional slavers, who, it is supposed, will, considering the risks involved, be then more likely t... |
10 |
| 26 | 244 |
It might also be noted that raids to acquire women are not the domain exclusively of professional slavers. |
10 |
| 34 | 202 |
It was, I gathered, a device by means of which slavers, or those in league with Beasts, or those opposed to Priest-Kings, marked women brought to Gor for their purposes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 |
Slavers remain active all year on Gor, but the peak seasons for slaving are the spring and early summer. |
10 |
| 1 | 700 |
The commercial relations of slavers are general, tolerant, and widely sorted and they have little reference to the politics of particular municipalities. |
10 |
| 2 | 222 |
"There are doubtless slavers in the piazza tonight," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 855 |
The purple booths are normally maintained by slavers, used as locations in which girls, usually higher-quality slaves, more expensive merchandise, may be inspected and tried by bona-fide buyers or their agents. |
10 |
| 2 | 856 |
Such booths are usually set up in the courtyards of slavers' houses and at special times, generally in the neighborhood of holidays and festivals. |
10 |
| 2 | 857 |
At other times, of course, such girls may be examined and tested in private chambers in the slavers' houses. |
10 |
| 2 | 859 |
They were, in effect, good-will and promotional devices, donated to the festivities, for the pleasures of free men, by the houses of various slavers. |
10 |
| 2 | 931 |
Slavers sometimes refer to the hair of a slave as her "pelt". |
10 |
| 3 | 85 |
Most female slavers, incidentally, are not involved in field captures. |
10 |
| 3 | 88 |
Most female slavers, accordingly, are established in cities, where they own or manage houses. |
10 |
| 3 | 90 |
Statistically, there are very few female slavers. |
10 |
| 3 | 141 |
You are all rogues, all pirates, thieves and slavers. |
10 |
| 6 | 787 |
I fear they may be slavers". |
10 |
| 6 | 793 |
"At any rate," he said, "let us hope that they are no worse than slavers". |
10 |
| 7 | 86 |
I suspect that many of the lots, even large lots, literal bevies of luscious slaves, chained together forty or fifty in a lot, may end up being simply purchased by slavers at rock-bottom prices, for purposes of later speculation". |
10 |
| 7 | 96 |
At other times they normally work in slavers' houses. |
10 |
| 7 | 153 |
Tags are sometimes, too, used to indicate distinctions among slaves, at least among slavers themselves, being correlated to the classes or grades of slaves. |
10 |
| 10 | 359 |
"It is procedurally recommended by the caste of slavers," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 436 |
Also, of course, it was not unknown for such girls to put themselves in the way of slavers, that they might be caught, and carried to cities, to be sold. |
10 |
| 11 | 16 |
Certainly her costume, incredibly brief and brightly spangled, bared most of the common brand sites utilized by Gorean slavers in marking women. |
10 |
| 21 | 38 |
Captors, raiders, slavers, and such, pick the most beautiful for the collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 343 |
Slave training is offered in the houses of many slavers, and, of course, they often train their own girls to one extent or another before putting them up for sale. |
10 |
| 4 | 113 |
"Many folks come to the wagons, as you know, informers, slavers, tradesmen, metal workers, craftsmen, peasants who will barter produce for skins and trinkets, and so on. |
10 |
| 4 | 183 |
"Such women may be bought in the cities," I said, "in slave markets, from the houses of slavers, from private dealers. |
10 |
| 4 | 190 |
"You mentioned, as I recall, that slavers, among others, came to the wagons". |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
Sometimes rogues and brigands, and even slavers, hang about the gates, seeking to trap late comers against the walls. |
10 |
| 13 | 161 |
Too, doubtless, something similar takes place on Earth, before Gorean slavers make their strikes. |
10 |
| 13 | 164 |
Who knows where or when the eyes of the slavers are upon them? If they knew that would they flee behind locked doors, hoping vainly to escape their fate; would they crouch fearfully in closets, waiting for the doors to be opened; or would they stand differently and move ever more beautifully, hoping... |
10 |
| 15 | 447 |
It is a drug familiar to slavers, thieves, and such. |
10 |
| 16 | 746 |
Probably you will not even be sold in proximity to one another, but in the order of your numbers, or in some order deemed aesthetically or commercially appropriate by professional slavers. |
10 |
| 16 | 1535 |
Such girls are usually supplied in groups by contract slavers, for the course of given campaigns. |
10 |
| 21 | 240 |
To it, slavers may take their catches. |
10 |
| 22 | 398 |
And certainly this feature makes the work of Gorean slavers on Earth less burdensome than it might otherwise prove to be. |
10 |
| 22 | 400 |
Too, of course, the lack of veiling permitted the slave makes her the more likely target of roving tarnsmen, brigands, slavers, and such. |
10 |
| 25 | 3 |
That Tau was the design, or trademark, of course, of Tenalion of Ar, one of the well-known slavers of the city. |
10 |
| 25 | 423 |
If she had ever been a free woman, doubtless she had been warned to keep those lips veiled, lest they attract the attention of slavers. |
10 |
| 25 | 1176 |
Slavers, for example, will pay for them. |
10 |
| 26 | 363 |
On the other hand I do not object to temporarily marking them in such a place, say, with a grease pencil, lipstick or paint, as many slavers do. |
10 |
| 26 | 1021 |
"What if I am caught? What if slavers pick me up?" "I really do not think there is much chance of that," I said, "not at the present hour, with it getting light. |
10 |
| 26 | 1293 |
Certain slavers, for example, at a glance, find it easy to assess slave potential. |
10 |
| 26 | 1896 |
Most, initially, presumably, would have been taken as free women by slavers or soldiers. |
10 |
| 26 | 1912 |
Also, slavers cannot possibly know in all cases, given the large numbers of free women, in various cities and villages, the veiling, the robes of concealment, and such, who is most beautiful or desirable. |
10 |
| 27 | 76 |
How could she forgive them that? Slavers, of course, think in terms of beauty, for they must sell these women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 413 |
Slavers grow more bold, even in larger cities. |
10 |
| 16 | 171 |
Sometimes slavers present prospective buyers with girls held in this fashion. |
10 |
| 17 | 317 |
"Stolen slaves seldom bring high prices, unless delivered to private dealers on contract, or to slavers, who know what to do with them, and where to sell them". |
10 |
| 23 | 73 |
Then she had fallen to slavers. |
10 |
| 28 | 121 |
"If so, they might be slavers". |
10 |
| 28 | 129 |
"It seems likely to me," said Tupita, "that we are being kept not for food, though such a thing, or things, might eat us, but to be turned over to our kind, to slavers". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 342 |
"There are many encampments of slavers, and slavers' men, and cages, and slave wagons about," she said. |
10 |
| 1 | 425 |
In the houses of slavers and in slave markets, beautiful women, for example, are almost always kept nude. |
10 |
| 6 | 695 |
Usually, but not always, they are attached to the houses of slavers. |
10 |
| 9 | 9 |
There were, in this vicinity, clouds of tiny tents and shelters, some of them belonging to soldiers, most to civilians, sutlers, merchants, slavers, and such. |
10 |
| 9 | 89 |
Slavers, in moving their wares through the streets, sometimes place them in body hoods. |
10 |
| 13 | 42 |
"The slavers are out there, somewhere, aren't they?" she asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 363 |
Slavers, and others, it is well known, can often pick out a slave from among women all clad in the Robes of Concealment, by simply having her walk, or speak, or by looking in her eyes. |
10 |
| 17 | 63 |
Slavers are skilled in setting girl snares, sometimes baited with trinkets. |
10 |
| 18 | 379 |
Slavers, too, commonly mark women in this fashion, for temporary purposes, for example, with lot numbers for sales, and such. |
10 |
| 21 | 982 |
Some slavers bring the girls into the city naked, in coffle, as they would normally be kept outside the walls, to save the soiling of tunics, and such, and others sheet the girls, covering them substantially with a sheet thrown over the head, and fastened about the neck by the coffle collar. |
10 |
| 21 | 1133 |
Slavers sometimes attempt to raid such places. |
10 |
| 21 | 1264 |
Perhaps to some extent, too, such garmenture, in its lovely degradation, protects the slave from the fury of free women—is the slut not already sufficiently exposed and shamed, but why do they bear their beauty with such defiant and brazen pride? What right have they to be so content, so radi... |
10 |
| 23 | 130 |
In fact, sometimes I have suspected that slavers enjoy throwing a girl who is still proud, or who has given them some difficulties, into such clutches. |
10 |
| 23 | 252 |
Certainly it was no secret that slavers, particularly in the more expensive houses, occasionally planned the sale of women in great detail, carefully regulating the order, arrangement, style, pacing and presentation of the goods, sometimes, in effect, even choreographing or staging the sale. |
10 |
| 24 | 672 |
Sometimes slavers are astonished when, presumably by accident, they encounter so transformed a slave, and will bid high to buy her back, but the master is seldom willing to sell her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 616 |
When women are not redeemed from an inn, or such, they are commonly disposed of to slavers. |
10 |
| 1 | 907 |
Some slavers, with certain markets in mind, such as certain of the Tahari markets, deliberately fatten slaves before their sale, sometimes keeping them in small cages, sometimes even force-feeding them, and so on. |
10 |
| 19 | 286 |
Slavers will take pains in checking out new catches, or acquisitions, to ascertain the natural color of their hair, one of the items one expects to find, along with fingerprints and measurements, and such, on carefully prepared slave papers. |
10 |
| 19 | 944 |
If nothing else, slavers could hunt them down and get them in their chains. |
10 |
| 26 | 221 |
Accordingly, and within a month, the high-caste young women of Harfax were privately stripped and examined by the members of a delegation from Besnit, including physicians and professional slavers. |
10 |
| 27 | 329 |
Sometimes, cruelly, slavers will deny a girl sex for days before she ascends the auction block. |
10 |
| 27 | 371 |
There are, incidentally, certain slavers who specialize in the capture of free women for the stage. |
10 |
| 29 | 262 |
Some years ago slavers used to come into the delta to hunt them, almost with impunity. |
10 |
| 31 | 34 |
Rence women, incidentally, once they themselves are enslaved, and learn that their absurdities and pretenses are now irrevocably behind them, make excellent slaves, as slavers have recognized for years. |
10 |
| 39 | 39 |
Slave nets, of course, are used by many slavers, constituting standard items in their hunting equipment. |
10 |
| 39 | 152 |
"From slavers," I said, "some of whom have caught the women there". |
10 |
| 44 | 286 |
Sometimes, too, they are used in the houses of slavers, as house collars. |
10 |
| 44 | 312 |
That place, in accord with a common slavers' convention, having to do with temporary girl markings, lot numbers, and such, is the left breast. |
10 |
| 45 | 91 |
It is probably for this reason that many slavers, in the last few years, have taken to subjecting the properties passing through their hands to this tiny, delightful operation, so momentous in its consequences. |
10 |
| 46 | 235 |
The prefects are identified by five slash marks, alternately blue and yellow, the slavers' colors, on their left sleeve, the praetor himself by nine such stripes, and lesser officials by three. |
10 |
| 47 | 83 |
Slavers hope for such fellows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 899 |
Whereas members of the caste of slavers are slavers, not all slavers are members of the caste of slavers. |
10 |
| 3 | 288 |
The net and the room doubtless constituted a capture cubicle, simpler perhaps, but not unlike those in certain inns, in which a woman, lulled by the bolting on the doors, and feeling herself secure, may complete her toilet at leisure, bathing, combing her hair, perfuming herself and such, before the... |
10 |
| 8 | 204 |
That product would have been more likely to have been, as it still was, available on the "Street of Brands," a district in which are found many of the houses of slavers, sales barns, sales arenas, holding areas, boarding accommodations, training facilities, and shops dealing with product lines perti... |
10 |
| 9 | 701 |
Certainly not every woman is such as to attract the interest and attention of slavers. |
10 |
| 9 | 872 |
Some fellows in Turian garb did stand by a wall, their arms folded, considering the coffle, much as might have assessing slavers. |
10 |
| 10 | 338 |
Slavers might see me!" "You were not pleasing," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 369 |
Indeed, some Gorean slavers try to keep from their customers that many women of Earth go about unveiled. |
10 |
| 10 | 371 |
On the other hand, most Gorean slavers are anxious to bring this usual lack of veiling on Earth to the attention of their customers. |
10 |
| 10 | 373 |
Who would not relish getting his bracelets on such a shameless, lascivious slut, so natural a slave, one so meaningless and despicable, one so little deserving of respect or dignity, one so appropriately and perfectly destined for bondage, one belonging in the collar? And needless to say, the common... |
10 |
| 12 | 257 |
Such texts, and numerous others, like them, are sometimes utilized in a girl's training, particularly by professional slavers. |
10 |
| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
10 |
| 19 | 350 |
Also, had we been slavers, she might, in her hasty flight, as we overtook her, have been roped or netted. |
10 |
| 19 | 889 |
"You are not slavers, are you?" she asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 893 |
"You are members of the caste of slavers!" she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 895 |
"But you are slavers!" she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 898 |
The distinction, of course, is between belonging to the caste of slavers and being a slaver. |
10 |
| 19 | 900 |
For example, I am not of the slavers, but in Port Kar I am known as Bosk, and he is known as many things, among them pirate and slaver. |
10 |
| 19 | 904 |
Neither of us, of course, was a member of the caste of slavers. |
10 |
| 22 | 441 |
You would think, on the other hand, that they would understand that they would not have attracted the attention of professional slavers if they were not beautiful, and not only beautiful, but, too, excruciatingly physically desirable. |
10 |
| 22 | 442 |
The slavers, after all, intend to sell them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 492 |
But, even so, would that not be mere luck, and, in a sense, would he not then be merely a lucky fool? Certainly professional slavers on this world would customarily exercise great care in such matters, perhaps even having recourse to elaborate techniques of inquiry and espionage. |
10 |
| 11 | 73 |
I was now more confident that the slavers who had taken me may have known their business after all, at least as far as externals were concerned. |
10 |
| 11 | 1613 |
For example, some rank the Merchants as a high caste, and some do not; and some rank the Slavers with the Merchants, and some see them as a separate caste, and so on. |
10 |
| 13 | 171 |
In slavers' raids they are not unoften surprised and discommoded in such a state of charming dishabille. |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
Too, for what it is worth, intelligent women are commonly better looking than less intelligent women, a feature which is not without its appeal to masters, and one which makes them more likely candidates for the slavers' ropes and irons; too, they also tend to be more helplessly responsive in the ar... |
10 |
| 13 | 1175 |
Cages of this sort are usually used temporarily, as during daylight hours in enclosed courts, and such, when slavers' men are about. |
10 |
| 13 | 1373 |
It is said that sometimes slavers enter the boudoir of a free woman and scrutinize her in her sleep, in this considering what value, if any, she might hold as a slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 1272 |
He must then, I thought, be of the Slavers, sometimes regarded as a subcaste of the Merchants, sometimes as an independent caste. |
10 |
| 14 | 1273 |
He would, if of the Slavers, of course, be an excellent judge of woman flesh. |
10 |
| 28 | 79 |
"They are usually used in the luring of free women by slavers". |
10 |
| 29 | 192 |
Blue and yellow are the colors of the caste, or subcaste, as the case may be, of the Slavers. |
10 |
| 29 | 193 |
Some, as noted earlier, regard the Slavers as a caste independent of the Merchants, some regard it as a subcaste of the Merchants. |
10 |
| 42 | 71 |
Among slavers it is regarded as a business. |
10 |
| 46 | 116 |
"It seems the slavers knew their business, Master," I smiled. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 72 |
Among these visitors, and citizens of Brundisium, too, she knew, would be slavers, professional slavers. |
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| 24 | 490 |
Going about so brazenly, is it not their intention to offer themselves for the scrutiny of slavers; is it not a way to court the collar, to beg for it? Certainly Gorean slavers on Earth are grateful for the custom, as it considerably facilitates their assessment of the slave wares of Earth. |
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| 11 | 603 |
Many free women, so garmenting themselves, as an adventure, thinking to have the run of the city, to go into areas forbidden to free women, to see the insides of paga taverns, and such, have, to their horror, found themselves, gagged and blindfolded, struggling futilely in the tight ropes of slavers... |
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| 14 | 76 |
Too, warriors, tarnsmen, slavers, and such, might prefer plainer custodial devices for early captures, transportation, simple holding, and so on. |
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| 16 | 541 |
Too, there is little doubt that the fact that women on Earth, particularly in Western cultures, do not veil themselves is welcomed by Gorean slavers, and certainly facilitates their selections amongst us. |
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| 18 | 170 |
She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s... |
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| 24 | 30 |
And Ellen, whom I think we may accept as intelligent, perhaps even quite intelligent, forgive me, Masters, given the selection criteria of Gorean slavers, of which we may take Mirus to be one, had this understanding of herself. |
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| 24 | 749 |
More coercively, perhaps, we might note that intelligence ranks high among the selection criteria of Gorean slavers, of which, as noted earlier, we may assume that Mirus was one. |
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| 25 | 103 |
There were many professional slavers in attendance, of course. |
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| 25 | 184 |
But then, upon reflection, in the context of her abduction, the smoothness, care and efficiency with which it was conducted, and given the predations of slavers upon Earth, and their access to techniques and vehicles capable of at least interplanetary spacefaring, and the market for such as she on t... |
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| 25 | 836 |
Did they have to know that? Could that not be left as her secret, to be revealed only, whether she willed it or not, in the arms of a dominant male? She wondered at the knowledge of the slavers. |
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| 25 | 839 |
She had been told that slavers on Earth occasionally passed by beautiful women, to take as prey women perhaps less beautiful, but more intelligent, more latently passionate, those who, in their view, would make better slaves. |
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| 25 | 850 |
And they are not even slavers, whose professional concerns require a considerable degree of accuracy in such judgments. |
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| 25 | 1003 |
Although the caste of Mirus might be unclear from the particular nature of his garmenture, Ellen supposed him of the slavers, which would be a subcaste of the Merchants, which caste was doubtless the wealthiest on Gor, and one which was often wont to view itself, perhaps in virtue of its wealth, if ... |
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| 26 | 282 |
It is a tie, incidentally, not unfamiliar to slavers, particularly with captured free women, whom they are endeavoring to begin to acquaint with what is to be the nature of their new life, that of a sexual creature, that of a man's plaything and chattel. |
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| 26 | 320 |
Slavers have often commented on the fondness of the women of Earth for throat encirclements, necklaces, and such, particularly for those which require a fastening and cannot be lifted away, over the head. |
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| 26 | 592 |
And, indeed, do not many slavers do just this, those who buy them, rather than hunting them down, say, like horses. |
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| 26 | 955 |
And slavers know that, she thought, the imperious, glorious, uncompromising, virile monsters! Even what I am doing, to do it well, she thought, requires sensitivity, attentiveness, intelligence. |
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| 26 | 1301 |
Do you think they do not know that when a city falls and they are led forth in their chains, herded along, perhaps cruelly prodded, with other domestic animals, that they are esteemed the most luscious of booty and loot, the most relished of prizes and treasures? Can they not see the eyes of the con... |
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| 27 | 68 |
First, as I think has been clearly indicated from time to time men, slavers, for example, have criteria. |
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| 29 | 379 |
"Master?" "I do not object," said he, "that slavers bring such as you to our world". |
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| 30 | 659 |
In any event, it is clear that the ships of slavers ply the space routes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 223 |
Gorean slavers, for example, often pay close attention to such things. |
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| 1 | 961 |
And there are, of course, slavers, who specialize in these matters, and brigands, and bands of brigands, who frequently engage in these activities. |
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| 11 | 77 |
With a swirl from the czehar and kalikas, and a pounding of the tabors, the dancers prostrated themselves in the sand, as slaves, and then, as Peisistratus struck his hands sharply together, they leapt up, and fled from the room, exiting through a portal, it curtained with dangling strands of blue a... |
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| 11 | 277 |
"They are slavers' ships?" "Yes". |
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| 30 | 119 |
"Free women may be raped, of course," he said, "by raiders, by warriors of foreign cities, by slavers, and such, for women are generally recognized on Gor as loot. |
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| 34 | 118 |
"Slavers," said Cabot, "often take a woman in her sleep, and bind her. |
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| 35 | 129 |
"They are slavers," said Cabot. |
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| 36 | 263 |
"And they are, as you may recall," she said, "slavers, professionals in the assessment of slaves". |
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| 43 | 102 |
Certainly few free women are likely to be found so, except doubtless in the houses of slavers, awaiting their branding and collaring". |
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| 43 | 107 |
"Stripped, she would stand high on the price list of many slavers". |
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| 79 | 203 |
That is common with the slavers of the ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 533 |
Gorean slavers do not bring stupid women to Gor. |
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| 2 | 16 |
He did not have the blue and yellow chevrons which sometimes characterizes the lower-left-hand sleeve of the slavers, different, of course, from their more formal regalia, or robes, commonly blue and yellow, their colors. |
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| 2 | 17 |
Some view the Slavers as a caste, others as a subcaste of the Merchants. |
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| 2 | 20 |
On the other hand, the greater numbers, indeed, the vast majority, of Gorean slavers, one supposes, as Goreans of other sorts, had never seen such a ship. |
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| 2 | 21 |
Indeed, many Gorean slavers, as many Goreans, might not even believe in the existence of such ships. |
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| 2 | 135 |
Slavers, too, who wish to buy and sell them, wish them to stay this way, as their value is maintained and, in many cases, improved. |
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| 2 | 234 |
Slavers, of course, come from various cities to bid. |
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| 3 | 90 |
Few slavers will try to pass off a girl as being, say, blonde or auburn-haired, if that is not the natural hair color of the slave. |
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| 3 | 777 |
It was a common practice for Kurii to recruit agents on Earth, usually through confederates, often slavers. |
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| 3 | 782 |
What need had they, in their plenitude of power, of such instruments? She was, on the other hand, exactly the sort of woman whom slavers, abetting the schemes of Kurii, would choose to recruit. |
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| 4 | 363 |
The free women of Earth are no more than the sort of women that Gorean slavers think nothing of enslaving. |
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| 5 | 802 |
Slavers, for example, will seldom sell a woman in what was once her own city. |
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| 5 | 1131 |
I put the tallest girl in front, as that is the usual way the slavers arrange their "beads". |
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| 8 | 155 |
I supposed that, in a sense, Miss Wentworth had been a slave for some time, perhaps from the time she had been entered on certain records, or acquisition lists, at least from the point of view of slavers. |
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| 8 | 157 |
If one does not accept the slavers' view of these matters, one would understand, at least, that the selectees had been designated for bondage. |
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| 8 | 344 |
That is doubtless one of the things slavers have in mind when they select them. |
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| 9 | 69 |
To be sure, she was quite lovely, and that was doubtless what first drew her to the attention of Gorean slavers. |
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| 10 | 301 |
These are the colors of the slavers. |
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| 12 | 92 |
He was obviously associated with certain Gorean slavers who had access to the shores of Earth. |
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| 12 | 93 |
The ships of such slavers were furnished currently, or originally, as the case might be, by the Steel Worlds, as the sophisticated technologies involved would be far beyond that of Gorean humans, and, currently, at least, beyond those of Earth, who were not even subjected to the weapon and technolog... |
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| 12 | 103 |
An obvious inducement, or partial inducement, to certain Goreans, for example to certain members of the caste of slavers, for their assistance, in a variety of tasks, would be something all males understand, women. |
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| 12 | 110 |
Indeed, one of the surprises to many Earth women brought to Gor for the sales cages of slavers is to learn that on this world they are not viewed through clouds of misrepresentation and nonsense but, radically and profoundly, as what they are, basically and fundamentally, females. |
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| 14 | 99 |
There are, for example, war nets, so to speak, such as the nets of the "fishermen" in the arena, who are armed with net and trident, and capture nets, such as are used by hunters for small animals and by slavers for women. |
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| 15 | 81 |
Some slavers, noting that pierced-ear girls sell well, have the slaves' ears, whether they be in origin of Earth or Gor, subjected to this simple, homely operation. |
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| 22 | 26 |
Similar reflections, one supposes, obtain in the cases of many women of Earth, luscious slave fruit harvested by Gorean slavers. |
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| 22 | 28 |
Too, I suspect that the choices of slavers are not always clear to those lacking their training and skills. |
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| 22 | 594 |
"Slavers are alert to such things". |
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| 26 | 167 |
Indeed, sometimes, as I understand it, a young recruit for slavers, and such, may suggest that one or more girls he knew on Earth be brought to Gor, for his slave ring. |
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| 27 | 139 |
Certainly slavers thought so, and so, too, did buyers in hundreds of markets. |
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| 38 | 256 |
Slavers often buy such women in lots, for pittances, on speculation. |
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| 44 | 47 |
Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1329 |
It is not unusual for slavers to save the best merchandise for late in the sale, when late comers are present, the audience is settled in, interest has been whetted, emotions are running high, purses are most open, and so on. |
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| 12 | 546 |
"That it was done easily and efficiently," said the tarnsman, "her neutralization, her removal from the game, from the board, so to speak, the straightforward gagging and hooding, suggests that they are proficient in such things, are perhaps slavers or raiders, or others, accustomed to the acquisiti... |
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| 17 | 144 |
Indeed, most seemed at, or near, ideal block measurements, those measurements sought by professional slavers before bringing their merchandise to the large, sawdust-covered pedestal from which they would be vended. |
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| 20 | 127 |
For that reason, even in the absence of discipline, slavers sometimes pierce a girl's ears, to her misery and horror, before putting her on the block, a pierced-ear girl. |
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| 21 | 777 |
Of the second, Alcinoë wondered if slavers might be more interested in her, if she could dance. |
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| 28 | 233 |
How they would be ostracized and scorned, put from society, if they did not say such things! Indeed, they might be remanded to slavers". |
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| 34 | 140 |
"That must make things quite easy for slavers," I said. |
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| 37 | 71 |
To be sure, there is a simple test for such things, often conducted by slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 757 |
Certainly he wore the colors of the Slavers. |
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| 8 | 846 |
"The finest beads drawn from the finest of the slavers' necklaces, each worthy of the central block of the Curulean, each fit for the Pleasure Garden of a Ubar," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 912 |
Slavers are seldom lenient with their goods. |
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| 8 | 1091 |
When I better learned your language, I was surprised to learn that you tend to regard the women of my world as natural slaves, and thus legitimate and appropriate prey for slavers. |
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| 8 | 1971 |
I had not had such a sweet since Earth, since my "harvesting" as one of the ill-protected, exposed, dangling fruits so easily available to slavers in the "slave orchard of Earth," no, not since my acquisition, my capture, my routine snaring, merely another sleek, defenseless animal, ignorant and uns... |
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| 8 | 2083 |
"It is a shame," said Menon, looking down upon me, "that the slavers consider little more than intelligence, beauty, and helpless, latent passion. |
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| 16 | 96 |
If the wagons were in the care of slavers, I supposed girls might be punished for such things. |
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| 16 | 97 |
Slavers like to keep the girls in their wagons ignorant of their surroundings, their destinations, and such. |
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| 17 | 220 |
As they had been in a blue-and-yellow livery, the colors of the Slavers, I supposed they might have been brought to the races to be offered. |
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| 17 | 544 |
I think all there were surprised, the Lady Bina, Master Desmond, Astrinax, and Lykos, and the keeper of the pair on the chain, with his switch, who was in his holiday regalia, that of the Slavers. |
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| 18 | 238 |
"They may be marked by slavers. |
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| 18 | 952 |
Do you not enjoy such games? And are you not, as much as we, prepared upon occasion to put your beauty to use, to barter it for position and wealth? For example, it is my supposition that, in the markets, and on the boulevards, and elsewhere, handsome slavers, perhaps disguised in the robes of rich ... |
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| 22 | 30 |
Slavers, and conquerors, will often tie a free woman's hands behind her before removing her veil. |
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| 27 | 369 |
"Doubtless she is on our former world, going about her work, abetting slavers, locating and assessing other girls such as we for the chains of Gor". |
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| 31 | 21 |
She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 204 |
"The Slavers," he said. |
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| 6 | 206 |
"The Slavers," he said. |
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| 6 | 207 |
"Very well, the Slavers," I said. |
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| 6 | 209 |
Do we not acquire, and buy, and sell? What difference is there, other than the nature of the goods handled? "Slavers," said he, "are cunning, and skilled with weapons". |
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| 6 | 214 |
"Slavers must plan, and raid, and seize," he said. |
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| 8 | 563 |
"Assassins, slavers, and such," he said, "men who are open to unusual opportunities, who will do much for gold, and ask no questions". |
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| 10 | 24 |
How, I wondered, did he understand the Merchants, the Slavers? What was his caste? Was he an Assassin? I was not. |
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| 15 | 690 |
On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owned, find fulfil... |
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| 26 | 75 |
"I have heard, the Slavers," he said. |
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| 33 | 143 |
How I had dismissed their whisperings as absurd, and yet, at the same time, wondered if I might appeal to the slavers of such a world. |
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| 39 | 121 |
What had slavers seen in me, which I had not been aware of in myself? Perhaps I was more attractive than I thought, with all the attendant dangers that that might mean on Gor, a world on which men were masters and some women were their slaves. |
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| 40 | 18 |
"And I am of the Slavers". |
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| 40 | 19 |
"Of the Slavers, yes," he said, "but surely you did not deal with barbarians, but with superior stock, Gorean girls, civilized, intelligent, lovely creatures to be captured, marked, and collared". |
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| 52 | 441 |
It is a favorite of slavers. |
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| 53 | 78 |
"The Slavers," I said. |
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| 53 | 79 |
"Surely Master is of the caste of Slavers". |
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| 53 | 81 |
"The Slavers is a subcaste of the Merchants. |
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| 53 | 83 |
The Slavers deal with soft, living goods". |
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| 53 | 101 |
"You may have labored in the tasks of the Slavers for the pleasantries of the merchandise, but I think there was more involved, for you seem now to be thinking of dealing with other goods. |
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| 53 | 102 |
Indeed, I suspect I know why you followed the Slavers' trade, a dangerous trade surely, with its alarming hazards, and even to another world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 493 |
Perhaps she had annoyed, irritated, or merely amused certain powerful men, Gorean slavers or those associated with them. |
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| 7 | 82 |
Many women on Earth, in this sense, are slaves, unbeknownst to themselves, having been located, marked out, identified, and registered as such by Gorean slavers. |
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| 7 | 85 |
From the point of view of the slavers, their acquisition, chaining, marking, collaring, and marketing are simply matters of ensuant detail. |
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| 13 | 233 |
"As slavers see it," I said, "you were a slave from the moment your name was entered on an acquisition list". |
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| 13 | 371 |
Would you not be exotica in the markets? Too, you had come to the attention of slavers. |
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| 13 | 468 |
On continental Gor slavers sometimes utilized such a mode of entry. |
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| 13 | 478 |
She does not know, of course, who might be the slaver, or slavers, or when they will strike. |
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| 42 | 305 |
Indeed, she was designated for Gorean slavery, and the slavers of Gor, I assure you, are not easy to please. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 506 |
There are wars, raids, seizures, abductions, predatory slavers, as opposed to trading slavers, and such. |
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| 1 | 407 |
How frightful to realize that one is a slave! It was only that I had not yet been acquired, had not yet been "gathered in," or "harvested," had not yet, so to speak, been picked from Earth's orchard of young women, picked as slavers pick fruit, "girl fruit". |
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| 2 | 36 |
"Gorean slavers," said Paula, "often scout 'slave fruit', before it is picked". |
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| 2 | 266 |
"And," said Paula, "if there is anything to this, slavers need only be patient, and await their opportunity". |
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| 2 | 271 |
To the slavers, we are no more than objects, no more than stock, no more than cattle of a sort". |
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| 7 | 165 |
You can imagine how useful it is to slavers, in their collections. |
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| 7 | 389 |
"I am," he said, "of the caste of Slavers". |
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| 9 | 23 |
And he was not merely Gorean, but of the caste of Slavers! And I had dared to strike him! Now my hands might be cut off for such an act, if I were not to be disposed of altogether, doubtless in such a way as to apprise me of my error and constitute a warning to others. |
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| 9 | 131 |
For example, the colors of the Slavers were blue and yellow, but these colors were often displayed, when the slaver was not hunting, merely on the left sleeve, rather than in a full regalia. |
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| 9 | 133 |
Some regard the Slavers as a subcaste of the Merchants and others identify it as an independent caste. |
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| 17 | 106 |
The glance I had seen of her did not suggest to me that she would be likely to be entered into the plans of roving slavers. |
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| 23 | 44 |
"Your first master," he said, "was Kurik, of Victoria, of the caste of Slavers". |
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| 23 | 118 |
"Surely he may be traced through the caste of Slavers," I said. |
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| 23 | 119 |
"There are elements in the caste of Slavers," he said, "bands that are secret, that proceed covertly, even having recourse to vehicles forbidden by the laws of Priest-Kings". |
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| 23 | 121 |
"Indeed," he said, "it is rumored that certain elements of the Slavers, and others, have dealings with the enemies of Priest-Kings". |
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| 34 | 145 |
"We are slavers. |
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| 42 | 153 |
Slavers selected with high intelligence in mind, as well as beauty and passion. |
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| 49 | 79 |
For example, some regard the caste of Slavers as a subcaste of the Merchants, and others regard it as an independent caste. |
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| 49 | 330 |
A girl, in the view of the slavers, becomes a slave when she is placed on a harvesting list. |
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| 51 | 53 |
Were they not the prizes? Did they not bring the highest prices? The three major criteria for selection by Gorean slavers were beauty, intelligence, and passion, helpless passion, slave passion, a woman's slave needs. |
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| 52 | 43 |
Was I not the sort of woman they had been taught to prefer, well-dressed, clever, attractive, and witty? I could well understand how slavers might select me, how I could be brought to Gor, put in a collar, and sold. |
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| 62 | 35 |
"What do you think your Phyllis might bring?" The Slavers' colors are blue and yellow. |
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| 62 | 37 |
Slavers are often not forward in displaying their caste colors. |
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| 63 | 290 |
This is something well understood by Gorean slavers, and by Gorean men in general. |
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| 63 | 329 |
"He is of the Slavers," I said. |
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| 63 | 330 |
"What do slavers talk about?" asked Paula. |
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| 63 | 348 |
The slavers of Ar also boasted the finest markets in the northern hemisphere, but there were few of the other "high cities" that would not dispute this claim. |
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| 63 | 351 |
The latter tended to sell almost as much to slavers, seeking eventual resales, as to private masters. |
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| 68 | 176 |
I had had a similar experience, startling me, in the holding of the slavers, before I had been shipped as stock, as cargo, to Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 114 |
Many slavers think of a woman as a slave as soon as she has been decided on, as soon as she has been added to their list. |
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| 5 | 22 |
"Slavers, a raid!" cried another. |
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| 8 | 72 |
I had been found acceptable by slavers, had been brought to this world, had been branded, collared, and sold. |
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| 10 | 46 |
In the tavern merchants may conduct business over a drink; mariners may regale rapt auditors with accounts of fabulous voyages; slavers may confer on sales and projected raids; at another table, a scribe may sit, ready to write or read letters. |
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| 12 | 16 |
And was it not he who had called me to the attention of slavers, thereby releasing my hidden slave, and giving me to her, she who was myself! I had thought much of Addison Steele since that interlude. |
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| 12 | 29 |
Had not slavers, discriminating professionals in such matters, selected me, included me on their cargo manifests, and shipped me, with others, like the animals we were, to the markets of Gor? Every bit of me was now a slave. |
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| 12 | 62 |
The Slavers is commonly accounted a subcaste of the Merchants, but some deem it an independent caste. |
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| 12 | 63 |
The caste colors of the Slavers are blue and yellow. |
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| 13 | 213 |
Gorean slavers prize intelligence in a woman. |
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