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Book 1. (21 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	58	Somehow my friend had followed me, must be hiding somewhere in the darkness.	10
1	217	Somehow I'd known that I would.	10
2	56	We shook hands, on my part rather stiffly, yet this gesture of our common homeland somehow reassured me.	10
2	66	Yet, somehow, in spite of these things, I found that I wanted to cross the room, to put my hand on his arm, to touch him.	10
2	67	I felt somehow a kinship with him, with this stranger and his sorrow.	10
2	247	In all probability their control over the motion of the planet is somehow connected with this capacity.	10
3	140	The caste system was socially efficient, given its openness with respect to merit, but I regarded it as somehow ethically objectionable.	10
4	169	Somehow I had the feeling they were genuinely proud of me, though I had no idea why.	10
5	40	I felt that, somehow, in spite of her collar, she was free.	10
5	107	"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ...	10
5	162	Somehow I must have turned the goad on.	10
5	171	I had no time to think, but somehow I was aware that my sword was now in my hand and the tarn-goad thrust in my belt.	10
6	186	Indeed, her body seemed somehow to be out of proportion.	10
7	1	A Ubar's Daughter The girl straightened, somehow proud but ludicrous in her mud-bedaubed regalia.	10
9	9	Somehow her happiness was contagious, and, almost as though we were not mortal enemies, we talked to one another and joked as we made our way across the plains.	10
13	49	Somehow the shock of that great, wild cry gripped me in a steel fist of terror.	10
15	43	I had no realistic or clearheaded plan, but was determined somehow to find Talena and escape, or die in the attempt.	10
18	9	Somehow.	10
18	15	I must find that pit and tunnel, somehow fight my way to his side, enlist his support.	10
18	120	Somehow I must liberate Marlenus.	10
20	2	I have never surrendered the hope that someday, somehow, I might return to Gor, our Counter-Earth.	10

Book 2. (20 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings.	10
1	32	Somehow, unlike my colleagues at the school, I had found the amnesia account too simple.	10
1	83	Somehow I was frightened.	10
1	95	Somehow I had the feeling that he was becoming dangerous.	10
1	134	Somehow I knew that this was the night on which I would learn the secret of Tarl Cabot.	10
3	93	Somehow I sensed that Zosk was his real name.	10
3	116	I could not understand his fear, but I was proud to see him master it, for fear is the great common enemy of all living things, and his victory I felt somehow was also mine.	10
3	135	Somehow I knew Zosk would not strike.	10
5	23	Somehow this man seemed different to me from the other Initiates I had met on Gor.	10
5	73	Somehow the power I had felt in his presence seemed to have vanished.	10
8	27	I missed the shrill, interminable calls of the vendors, each different; the good-natured banter of friends in the marketplace exchanging gossip and dinner invitations; the shouts of burly porters threading their way through the tumult; the cries of children escaped from their tutors and playing tag ...	10
8	63	In spite of this conviction, incomprehensibly, I found myself depressed by Tharna, and wondered if it, in its way, were not somehow, subtly, more barbaric, more harsh, less human than its ruder, less noble, more beautiful sisters.	10
8	93	I could see that he did not believe me, and somehow I did not believe him either.	10
13	19	The spear struck me, too, again and again, in the back and across the shoulders, but I stood, somehow strong in the yoke, like an ox.	10
17	38	He hated me, blaming me somehow for the fact that he found himself in this dire predicament.	10
19	151	I knew that little passed on Gor that was not somehow known in the Sardar Mountains.	10
20	46	I wondered too at her treachery, her strange hatred of me, for somehow it seemed not to fit well with the lonely girl on the ledge, who had stood quietly gazing at the field of talenders while a warrior had gorged himself on the kill of his tarn.	10
21	92	In theory, if not in practice, when the girl finds herself branded like an animal, finds her fair skin marked by the iron of a master, she cannot fail, somehow, in the deepest levels of her thought, to regard herself as something which is owned, as mere property, as something belonging to the brute ...	10
24	15	From behind three or four of the low tables, to the left of the counter, a band of sweating musicians sat happily cross-legged on the rug, somehow producing from those unlikely pipes and strings and drums and disks and wires the ever intriguing, wild, enchanting—beautiful—barbaric melo...	10
25	117	I suddenly knew the answer, that Thorn somehow had loved this cruel woman, that his warrior's heart had been turned to her though he had never looked upon her face, though she had never given him a smile or the touch of her hand.	10

Book 3. (16 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	28	There was no choice now but to go on, somehow, if I could.	10
7	72	I had walked perhaps an Ahn and was deep inside one of the long, dimly lit passageways which led in the direction of her chamber when I seemed somehow to sense a presence behind me.	10
7	121	I hummed a warrior's tune, for somehow I was happy.	10
10	98	Somehow I imagined it was thinking.	10
12	149	"By the Priest-Kings!" I roared, the rather blasphemous Gorean oath slipping out, somehow incongruously considering my present location and predicament.	10
13	28	They view nature as a set of interrelated continua rather than as a visually oriented organism is tempted to do, as a network of discrete objects which must be somehow, mysteriously, related to one another.	10
13	67	Somehow these laconic responses and the unquestioning acceptance of the apparent barbarities of the rule of Priest-Kings infuriated me.	10
20	160	Somehow, unaccountably in spite of my great hatred for her, I was shaking, sweating and trembling.	10
23	29	And looking upon her I now realized too that somehow, not fully understanding, I had cared for her.	10
24	30	On the other hand I could hope that somehow the sensory field of the antennae might be similarly, at least partially, restricted by their withdrawal beneath the casing of the fused, horny wings.	10
25	81	Strangely I sensed that somehow within her she was vaguely conscious of what was occurring.	10
26	206	I could not understand why this assertion of mine should have troubled one of Vika's proud and treacherous nature but she seemed somehow more hurt than if I had administered to her when she had knelt the blows of a slave whip or the lashings of my sword belt.	10
29	140	So this was how a Priest-King might be slain, I thought, somehow here one must sever the ganglionic net in mortal fashion.	10
31	131	I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword.	10
31	194	I thought he might be telling himself to be done with me, but somehow I knew this could not be.	10
33	133	Suddenly I did not feel him as an enemy any longer and I sensed that somehow he did not regard me either as a threat or foe.	10

Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	63	But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by Priest-Kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on th...	10
13	194	I resolved I would somehow release the girl, somehow protect her from the cruelty of the fate decreed for her by Kamchak.	10
2	16	Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life.	10
4	66	I studied his heavy face, the fierce scarring that somehow ennobled it, the dark eyes with the epicanthic fold.	10
7	94	He wore a dark suit of expensive cloth and tailoring, and yet somehow it seemed not that he wore it as one accustomed to such garments.	10
7	146	This was news to me, and I welcomed it, for it meant that probably, somehow, the answer to at least a part of the mystery which confronted me lay in the city of Turia.	10
8	397	Nothing simple, but something that, somehow, you can anticipate, if only to a degree.	10
9	213	"Very well," snapped Saphrar, "then you will not obtain the woman—I shall see to that—and somehow I shall have the sphere—understand that!" Kamchak now turned to watch Aphris of Turia.	10
9	481	Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is asymmetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim whatsoever on the transferred assets.	10
10	555	In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow.	10
10	562	Each time the Turian struck and I would have thought Kamchak slain, somehow, incomprehensibly, at the last instant, nearly causing my heart to stop, with a surprised, weary little twitch, the blade of the Tuchuk would slide the Turian steel harmlessly to the side.	10
12	4	I realized that I must, somehow, gain access to the wagon and find and carry away the sphere, attempting to return it to the Sardar.	10
12	393	To the music, beautifully, it seemed the frightened figure ran first here and then there, occasionally avoiding imaginary objects or throwing up her arms, ran as though through the crowds of a burning city—alone, yet somehow suggesting the presence about her of hunted others.	10
12	481	Somehow I thought of her still as the frightened girl in the yellow shift—caught up in games of war and intrigue beyond her comprehension and, to a great extent, mine.	10
13	226	I must attempt—this night or some other in the near future—to purloin the sphere, to return it somehow to the Sardar.	10
15	28	I suppose I was angered because I myself was a tarnsman, and it seemed somehow improper for warriors astride the mighty tarns to barter their favors indiscriminately for gold to either side.	10
15	40	* * * * I knew that I myself must somehow enter Turia, for in Turia now lay the golden sphere.	10
15	41	I must somehow attempt to seize it and return it to the Sardar.	10
16	65	Yet, in spite of my better judgment, I found myself somehow admiring the confident young fellow.	10
16	140	I recognized him, somehow in the build and the way he held his body.	10
18	16	"Yes, Tarl Cabot," wheezed Saphrar, giggling, "and yet you will, in an hour or so, when you are mad with pain and fear, try yet again and again to touch and grasp a vine, knowing that you will not succeed but yet again and again trying, believing that once somehow you will be successful.	10
18	52	Yet somehow I knew now the pool, like all forms of life, had some level of irritability.	10
19	71	I looked them over and would have thought that any one of them would have been a prize, presuming it could be safely transported somehow to the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
21	344	I saw a woman, unveiled, hair streaming behind her, twisting, buffeted, among the kaiila, somehow managing to find her way among them and rush between two buildings.	10
25	203	"We shall have to divide it somehow.	10
26	345	He was surrounded by the luminous, white spheres that floated under the surface about him, perhaps watching, perhaps somehow recording his position in virtue of pressure waves in the medium.	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	235	I turned again to the Player, but he was now standing there in the street, seeming somehow alone, though I stood at his side.	10
7	177	Even if a girl should manage somehow, incredibly, because certain important knots are outside the wicker, to free herself, she would still be held in place by the loops on her throat.	10
10	34	Seeing me she fell to her knees and put down her head, managing somehow to retain her hold on the several scrolls.	10
20	299	"Tal," responded Cernus, seeming somehow in awe before this mere boy.	10
20	304	I felt it was a face I somehow knew, and yet could not know.	10
20	307	It was as though she, like myself, somehow recognized him.	10
20	345	I racked my brain, trying to understand something which seemed somehow but a moment from comprehension, something elusive, hauntingly near and yet undisclosed.	10

Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	300	But I was sick, and I was shamed, and I could not now, somehow, care.	10
7	113	"But I gather," said I, "you somehow made your escape".	10
8	86	For all they knew, they were encircled by rencers, somehow masters of the great bow.	10
9	161	And even should she, somehow, fall, her men need only take ship, and then, when it pleased them, return, ordering slaves again to build in the delta a city called Port Kar.	10
11	517	Somehow, suddenly, I believed Samos.	10
15	5	I did not feel, somehow, that I should carry that old sword any longer.	10

Book 7. (17 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	267	Did he know that there was a mark on my thigh? Did he sense that? Did that mark make me somehow subtly different than I had been? Did it, somehow, set me apart from other women on this world? Could I no longer drive men away? And if I could no longer drive them away, what did that mean? What had tha...	10
10	350	I did not tell him, of course, but I had felt, on some level, even on Earth, that I had been somehow transformed by that mark, that it had made me, somehow, radically different from what I had been.	10
3	370	That mark, somehow, insolently, whether I wished it or not, incredibly enhanced my beauty.	10
3	497	Somehow I had seized it, instinctively, in running from the car.	10
5	14	Somehow it seemed not the same to me.	10
8	650	Vaguely, the small mountebank, in his swirling, silly robes, with his painted face, seemed somehow familiar, but I knew he could not be.	10
8	1115	Doubtless they had seen me struggle! I was no Kajira! Doubtless they wanted me to join them! Now I would be free! Perhaps, somehow, they could even help me return to Earth.	10
10	24	Too, somehow the voice seemed familiar to me, but I could not recall if, or where, I had once heard it.	10
11	796	I tried, in the moonlight, to run in the same direction, to find my way from the forest, somehow.	10
13	133	"But," I had pressed, "perhaps you could find your way back somehow, and perhaps your foster parents still reside on Teletus".	10
13	471	But somehow I knew that she would not.	10
13	802	Somehow he frightened me, even beyond the fact that I had much to fear, as I was in his power, a caught slave.	10
13	803	I wondered if I had known him, somehow, or met him before, somewhere.	10
14	477	If her capture was regrettable, then the city might seem, somehow, to have been at fault.	10
15	322	By the attitude of my master, I could see that she was, somehow, for no reason I could understand, a guest in this camp.	10
15	942	But, too, somehow, perhaps unaccountably, lying and stealing now seemed to me small, and trivial, too petty to perform.	10
17	112	I sometimes thought of many of the girls I had known on Earth, whose names I will omit, lest somehow, sometime, somewhere, they read these pages, who would surely look well, stripped and collared, kneeling before masters, their knees perforce widely spread, their tiny, lovely wrists confined behind ...	10

Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	200	The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one.	10
1	201	Perhaps it is regarded as being somehow innate, or a function of instincts.	10
2	295	Somehow I regretted that Ivar Forkbeard was dead.	10
11	212	And doubtless there would be communication with the ships, somehow.	10
13	452	Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when ...	10
14	27	He doubtless understood what was occurring but, to him, somehow, it did not seem of concern.	10
14	58	It was my hope that she, and the others, could manage to slip away somehow, perhaps climbing to the catwalk, and dropping over the side of the palisade to the ground below.	10
22	9	I think that here, somehow, in the north, you have found yourself".	10
22	89	But, somehow, in the north, in Torvaldsland, I had changed.	10
22	95	Here, with the Forkbeard, with the sea, the wind, in his hall and in battle, I had become, somehow, much different.	10
22	260	I wondered if, somehow, somewhere, we might once again encounter one another.	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	52	I wondered if it was capable, somehow, of a dim awareness of the phenomenon of light.	10
24	528	Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow commiserate wit...	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1193	Perhaps they might rescue me! Perhaps they might return me, somehow, to Earth, or put me in touch with those with whom I might negotiate arrangements for my return to my native world.	10
3	479	Would they simply laugh, and do what they wanted with me? Or, perhaps, like Gorean men, would they first discipline me, and then perform upon me what actions they chose? With the brand, I knew I was somehow deeply and profoundly different.	10
9	488	I understood, somehow, that I must make a necklace.	10
9	505	The response, somehow, seemed oddly fitting, expected.	10
9	1211	The response, somehow, had seemed oddly fitting, expected, though I had known no Belisarius.	10
15	192	It was as though each of us desired to appear more frigid and less passionate than the other, as though the restriction or impairment of our natural sexuality were somehow desirable or meritorious.	10
20	585	Too, of course, if Clitus Vitellius should somehow regain his freedom, unlikely though that might be, I had little doubt that he would remember the girl who had betrayed him.	10
22	604	Then the beast, suddenly, startling me, twisted, and swam a tight, angry circle, its long tail thrashing, and then the water seemed suddenly different, somehow more viscous and greasy.	10
24	46	What woman is not pleased to know she is of interest to men? What woman is not pleased to realize, even shyly, that her beauty may have unsettled a fellow, even dazzled or astonished him, bewildered him, or awed him? Are we supposed to be upset that a fellow may turn about, perhaps disbelievingly, p...	10
26	46	Yet, too, she found them, somehow, intensely fascinating and intriguing.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	358	Some would see this as superstition; others sense that there is some sort of an inexplicable reality which is here involved, a difficult and subtle reality which the man of the sea can somehow sense, but which he cannot, and perhaps should not, attempt to explain to the satisfaction of men other tha...	10
3	26	This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement.	10
3	654	The collars they wore seemed somewhat incongruous with their upper garments, the blue workman's shirt of the blond girl, the soft pull-over of the dark-haired girl, the flannel shirts of the two dark-haired girls on the end, but, still, somehow, they seemed correct, and even beautiful, on their thro...	10
4	198	Indeed, there were even higher rated players on Gor than Centius of Cos, but, somehow, it had seemed that it was he whom Scormus of Ar must meet to establish his supremacy in the game.	10
4	516	I recalled, too, the myth of the mountain that did not move, a great iceberg which somehow seemed to defy the winds and currents of the polar sea.	10
4	552	I thought again of the herd of Tancred, which had not appeared in the north, and of the "mountain that did not move," the great iceberg which seemed, somehow, independent and stable, maintaining its position, fixed and immobile, in the midst of the restless, flowing waters of the polar sea.	10
10	98	Even trading in the north sometimes takes on the aspect, interestingly, of the exchange of gifts, as though commerce, obvious and raw, might somehow seem to offend the sensibility of the proud hunters.	10
12	287	This makes sense, as it is not their name, and it is not as if, in their speaking it, the name might somehow escape them.	10
15	562	And yet I feel that somehow, though I am slave, I am the most liberated, the most free of women.	10
23	337	She fears, somehow, he will know.	10
28	74	"We were brought here, somehow," said Arlene.	10
33	41	We were so different, and yet, somehow, not so unlike as one might think.	10
34	165	Somehow it was again on its feet.	10
35	397	Perhaps Imnak would succeed in finding and freeing them, somehow.	10

Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	168	"But she seemed somehow different, incredibly so, vulnerably so".	10
1	592	The ring itself, somehow, was shortly thereafter destroyed in an explosion".	10
14	541	Yet she knew readily, or instinctively, or intuitively, or naturally, or somehow, that she should be, in these circumstances, standing as she was before me, at a distance where I might, if I wished, without inconvenience, simply take her in my arms.	10
24	62	Its mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering the mating instinct.	10
26	7	Somehow, the mouth of the Ua must lie ahead.	10
27	200	For the first time then they begin to suspect that they are very different from men, truly different, radically different, and that they are somehow very special, and have a considerable value of a sort, indeed, a value of such a sort that they have been found worth bringing to this world.	10
32	646	They were not angry with him for interfering with their ceremony, for literally stopping it, but somehow, for no reason I understood, with me.	10
32	871	I found the building, somehow, familiar.	10
34	359	"I acknowledge the justice of the expression," she said, "but somehow it seems quite inapt".	10
34	661	Many people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe.	10
34	664	Values need not be something one somehow mysteriously "knows," a result of having forgotten the conditioning process by means of which they were instilled, but could be something chosen, something selected as instruments by means of which to improve human life.	10
43	15	It was as though she had been bound and, somehow, had been freed.	10

Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	897	The women, now, were of a whole new breed, somehow magically different from all women of the past, free and independent.	10
7	419	I realized now I had registered many of her piteous signals, but, somehow, had forced them away from explicit, conscious recognition.	10
8	70	Somehow she seemed to feel that I had disappointed her.	10
10	216	I hoped, somehow, she had managed to escape the cruel fate of female slavery.	10
11	411	For example, the average Gorean is not likely to feel that his honor, which he values highly, is somehow necessarily connected with the integrity of a specific, exactly drawn border.	10
11	496	I must have noticed this before but, somehow, it had not registered with me.	10
13	359	Somehow I had known the girl would kneel to me.	10
13	733	I knew nothing of fighting, but I had discovered, it frightening me, that there was in me, somehow, strength which I had not understood.	10
16	50	Each does, however, tend to think of his own caste as something special, and, somehow, I suspect, as being perhaps a little bit preferable to the others.	10
22	784	"Yes," said the Lady Florence, "surely now my vengeance is complete and perfect, but if this is so, then why do I feel somehow dissatisfied?" "I can explain that to you, Lady Florence," said Tenalion, "if you wish to listen".	10

Book 15. (14 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	237	It was as though a transformation, somehow, had come over her.	10
3	239	"Yes," I said, for, somehow, suddenly, perhaps with the sudden understanding and acceptance of her nature and condition, it had become true.	10
3	308	Too, it seemed to me that I might, in spite of the mask, somehow have found him familiar.	10
5	32	I tried to appear as though incredulous that he was down, as though I could not believe that I had somehow struck him from his feet.	10
7	147	"I would still like to thank you, somehow," I said.	10
9	163	How unfortunate for her, I supposed, in such a place and time! And how beautiful she had been in the restaurant, in the off-the-shoulder, white, satin-sheath dress, she somehow then daring to appear so.	10
10	127	"Then we shall manage to divide the room," she said, "somehow, with a screen, or partition, of some sort".	10
11	26	"It seemed to me, before," I said, "that you reacted to me as though you might once have seen me, as though I might be somehow familiar to you".	10
11	28	"It seemed to me that, somehow, I had seen you before.	10
22	96	And then, somehow, against all obstacles, I would make her mine, mine own.	10
24	207	Now I am truly frightened, for I know that, somehow, now, you must find me pleasing, or of interest.	10
26	71	So do not punish me for speaking the truth, I beg of you! I am a slave! I have no alternative, Master!" "Is it then, truly," I asked, "what you want to be?" "Oh, yes, Master! Yes, Master! That is what I want to be, and what somehow I have always wanted to be, a master's pleasure slave!" "Why is that...	10
30	111	"You intercepted the courier, somehow, on his way back to Ragnar Voskjard," said Policrates.	10
31	54	When, in my dreams I would encounter a slave girl, perhaps suddenly turning to greet me; perhaps in a market, imploring me to buy her; perhaps on a rounded slave block, I with a purse of gold in hand, having ready the means with which to buy her; perhaps an escaped slave, pilfering in my compartment...	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	265	This was the consequence, it seemed, somehow, of a troubling interview she had had earlier with a man whom I now knew to have been either a Gorean slaver, or one in league with such.	10
17	912	She had been excruciatingly attractive to me on Earth, somehow the loveliest and most exciting woman I had ever known, and her charms and vulnerabilities, her softnesses and beauties, had been a thousand times enhanced in her Gorean bondage.	10
20	1801	But, on the whole, I think it fair to say that the average Gorean male is often afraid to show tender feelings, regarding them as somehow inappropriate for a man.	10
20	1847	From my point of view, I would prefer, lest she become vain, or think that she is now somehow important, that her discipline should be simply maintained.	10
21	425	"It is interesting," I said, "I think, as you suggested earlier, I may have always thought of you, somehow, on some level, at least, perhaps not fully consciously, from my first glimpse of you, as a slave".	10
21	753	For example, suppose the slave has been somehow at fault, however inadvertently, and, kneeling before the master, nude, must beg punishment.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	1442	"Do you feel now less than you were before," I asked, "less important, somehow less significant?" "No," she said, "I feel ten thousand times more important, more significant, than I was before".	10
17	85	Too, it seems somehow significant and appropriate to see them so aligned, so displayed, so secured—numbers of them—in the plenitude and diversity of their beauties—all women, all helpless, and woman as the slave of man.	10
19	431	It was as though he, somehow, found this personally shameful.	10

Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	170	That a given individual of strong passions could scream with the need for sexual release is something that they cannot understand or which, somehow, terrifies them.	10
18	198	I did not know if I could draw Mahpiyasapa out of the council, or if it would be wise to do so, but I was confident that I could, somehow, if he were there, make contact with Grunt.	10
22	227	In such matters they would not consider what would make the women most happy but rather would take their enslavement, irrationally, as being somehow demeaning or insulting to them personally.	10
28	337	Somehow they had come into league with the Kinyanpi and, perhaps through them, and in virtue of some special considerations, the nature of which I suspected I knew, been able to make contact with, and enlist the aid of, Yellow Knives.	10
33	195	Perhaps, on the other hand, it amused you, as it seemed to, that I, someone you seemed to regard, somehow, as a foe of some sort, or lovely enemy, was to be sent to a Waniyanpi compound.	10
43	235	You would doubtless trick me somehow".	10

Book 19. (30 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	146	Her beauty had to do more intimately and basically I thought, somehow, with matters which were more psychological and emotional; it had to do, somehow, in its softness and femininity, with the slavery of her.	10
36	867	As an analogy, let us suppose that somehow, by magic if you wish, or some sort of hibernation, or through some sort of suspended animation, that one had never had food or drink, and then suppose that suddenly, somehow, someone had changed all that, that someone had done something to you, and that su...	10
1	324	About him, somehow, there was an aura of command, of authority, of one who rules, innocently and by right.	10
1	326	He seemed, somehow, to be the sort of man whom a woman must obey.	10
2	340	Somehow it seemed, in the presence of such men, such a position would not be unfitting for me.	10
3	220	This thought, somehow, alarmed me, terribly.	10
3	691	Somehow I knew that I had longed for this, and needed it.	10
3	728	Somehow it seemed right, before such a man, to request this boon, to see if I might speak.	10
3	818	Too, I was pleased because I thought that the possession of my virginity might make me somehow more valuable.	10
3	819	Perhaps I could use it somehow to improve my position in this world.	10
3	820	Perhaps I could somehow use it as a prize which I might award for gain, or as a bargaining device in some negotiation in which I might be involved.	10
4	552	The door, somehow, was fastened on the other side.	10
8	469	I hoped that my need was not somehow evident, subtly so, in my appearance and behavior, perhaps through body cues.	10
14	44	I wished that I were a slave, that I might have a chance for life, that I might have an opportunity to convince a master somehow, in any way possible, that I might be worth sparing.	10
16	353	"May I speak?" Something in me relished, somehow, asking for permission to speak.	10
16	354	Somehow that seemed very meaningful to me, and, indeed, in some way, perhaps obscurely, arousing, sexually arousing, very sexually arousing.	10
17	57	Somehow, angrily, I felt rejected.	10
17	93	But, rather, somehow, I was angry.	10
18	46	That name, especially when not prefixed by 'Lady', I felt, somehow, did seem to have a certain rightness for me.	10
19	295	It excited me, somehow, that I lay where slaves had lain.	10
23	217	It seemed somehow as though he had suddenly taken me away from myself.	10
24	136	And I was not, somehow, wholly displeased that this was the case.	10
25	134	Her face, in its plainness and homeliness, seemed somehow, now, in its softness, its tenderness, its vulnerability, very beautiful.	10
26	248	It might be noted, lastly, that a woman who is stolen from a given city, if she has been enslaved, should she somehow find herself again in her native city, will still be a slave.	10
26	295	I felt, somehow, it belonged on me.	10
26	296	It was right, I felt, somehow, on me.	10
30	258	He must have come somehow, between or through the buildings.	10
31	112	It did seem to me, however, that most were somehow unhappy.	10
36	444	Might it not be, then, that somehow, perhaps long ago, men, or at least certain sorts of men, and doubtless other women, had been brought here, to this new, fresh, unspoiled, unstained world, perhaps to populate it, perhaps to thrive upon it? "You do not fear me, truly, do you?" he asked.	10
36	643	The Gorean city somehow encourages exuberance and vitality, not depression, anxiety, fear, negativity, and boredom.	10

Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	41	It seemed, somehow, only recently that the five Ubars, who had divided Port Kar between them, had been deposed.	10
1	459	"I thought she might have the makings, somehow, of a pleasure slave".	10
2	291	Somehow, within the outlines of the role, and the traditional business associated with it, these actors manage to make their versions unique and special onto themselves.	10
9	523	"But, of course, even though it might be difficult, we shall struggle to manage some small remuneration—somehow," Boots assured me.	10
12	518	But perhaps it could be somehow arranged.	10
13	177	That attempt had seemed tied in, somehow, with Brundisium.	10
14	278	Perhaps something had been selected for, somehow, in the recognition and acceptance dispositions of the packs.	10
14	298	Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him.	10
14	413	They had then seemed provocatively, somehow significantly, but with no full significance which I had then grasped, lurking, prowling, at the borders of my understanding.	10
16	901	That something of interest might be transpiring on the stage seemed somehow, suddenly, almost as if by secret communication, to be understood by all in that hall.	10
18	138	"After, it might be mentioned," added Belnar, "he managed somehow to escape from others".	10
21	607	I realized then, to my horror, that somehow I had truly become a slave, that I then desired, from the bottom of my heart, more than anything, to love and serve men, and to please them wholly and selflessly, and in the way fitting for one such as I now understand myself to be, as a slave her masters"...	10
22	322	"Now, it seems," said he, "she is somehow implicated in a plot to overthrow Marlenus, that she is among the ring leaders in an insidious betrayal and projected revolt, that she is a prominent figure in a treason that could open the very gates of Ar to its enemies.	10

Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	494	Perhaps, I thought, what had occurred to her yesterday evening had somehow affected her, had somehow made some difference.	10
1	184	Also, of what value would the lash be as a corrective device if it was somehow savored? It would fail as an instrument of discipline.	10
7	30	Ah, yes, there it was, somehow in its sheath, over my left shoulder.	10
16	320	How dreadful of me, how wrong of me, surely, how incomprehensible it was! Yet it seemed to me somehow that I was such as should so beg.	10
21	188	I must somehow manage to deliver them.	10
25	1867	If that should, however, somehow occur, she would still be found at his ring, awaiting his pleasure.	10
25	2374	Somehow I felt, however, that my entry therein would not go unnoticed.	10
26	397	"Perhaps you think I have forgotten to do so, that it has somehow slipped my mind.	10

Book 22. (44 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	392	But what if it did? She lies there, troubled, but somehow comforted, somehow secure, in that position.	10
1	119	This had seemed to me necessary, somehow, when I had made it.	10
1	130	Somehow there must be a reason for the way I felt, something beyond all the denials, denunciations and rationalizations.	10
2	7	Nonetheless my life had changed, somehow, in perspective or understanding, if not greatly in overt deed or obvious fact, that night when I had seen myself as I was, or might be, in the mirror, when I had come to incontrovertibly learn my true nature, a nature which must be forever denied, thwarted a...	10
2	14	He did not seem at ease somehow in this garment.	10
2	25	I quickly lowered my head, unable, somehow, to meet that gaze.	10
2	62	It seemed, somehow, now, that the shelves were close on both sides.	10
2	63	The space between them seemed somehow narrower, and more wall-like, than usual.	10
2	75	His bulk, somehow seemingly ungainly in that suit and tie, seemed to fill the space between the shelves.	10
3	33	I think it served, somehow, in some way, to trigger a resolve on my part to do something which for me, if not for other women, required great courage.	10
3	60	Somehow that made things seem much simpler, much easier.	10
3	180	Men, I sensed, somehow, would relish an ornamented woman, perhaps even one who was shamefully belled.	10
3	182	I was excited, as I always was, somehow, before I danced.	10
3	215	Did this not suggest then that somewhere, somehow, there might be something answering to my yearnings, my hungers and cries? How was it that I should cry out in the darkness, if, truly, there were no one, anywhere, to hear? Be pleased there isn't, little fool, I snapped to myself.	10
3	265	In effect, somehow it seemed welded shut.	10
3	572	The way he had said my name somehow alarmed me.	10
3	653	How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or...	10
3	816	I dared not meet those fierce eyes which so frightened me, which seemed somehow to look through me, burning through me like fire, bringing unwelcome, frightening torches to my secret darkness, penetrating to my deepest and most closely guarded secrets, to what lay in the most secret belly and heart ...	10
3	853	The whip, it seemed to me, strangely enough, somehow, was not a stranger to me.	10
4	23	It made me feel somehow charged, and alive.	10
4	32	I was an educated, civilized woman, a modern woman, I supposed, in some sense, but I found myself kneeling before a man! Too, this startling me, this strangely affecting me, it seemed that this was somehow appropriate for me, that it was rightful for me, that it was where I belonged.	10
4	150	"There is something different or special about me, somehow, from your point of view, isn't there?" I said.	10
4	232	It had sounded different, somehow.	10
4	325	My virginity, somehow, seemed a factor in this.	10
6	551	Somehow, interestingly, this acceptance, too, seemed liberating to me.	10
8	269	I thought, and hoped, that perhaps I might be special to him, somehow, in some way, more so than others, as he was to me, he who was the loved, dreaded master of my heart.	10
11	1362	He had made me begin to feel sensations, though doubtless I was now ready for them, which had alarmed me, sensations which spoke to me of female helplessnesses, and of female helplessnesses beyond them, and perhaps even beyond them, intriguing, fascinating helplessnesses, helplessnesses dimly sensed...	10
13	75	Free women, on Gor, it seems, are frightened even to look upon such material, apparently finding it scandalously offensive, or somehow profoundly disturbing to them, let alone let it touch their body.	10
13	121	This, somehow, is a far more disturbing, or meaningful, admission than the first.	10
13	122	Somehow the nakedness of a slave seems far more naked than the nakedness of a free woman.	10
13	215	"But doubtless," he said, "even if you somehow managed to escape the collar on your own world, to be caught and rightfully wear it here, women such as you are almost universally held in bondage on Earth".	10
13	774	I felt my softness lost somehow within that embrace.	10
14	277	To an Earth girl, on Earth, at least, this might not seem to be a matter of great import, but I was not on Earth, and here, I knew, such things, somehow, rationally or not, had great import.	10
14	362	How perceptive was this man! Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot.	10
24	393	It seems to her, somehow, that that is where she belongs.	10
24	513	"But this thing, I think," she said, "is not such a beast, not a human beast, not a man in the full power of his intelligence, vitality and animality, but some other sort of beast, something perhaps similar somehow, but very different, too".	10
25	209	It seemed somehow fitting for me.	10
25	214	It was not my fault, unless it were somehow my fault to be such that men so desired me.	10
27	148	Too, could she any longer even dare to do so? Suppose others came to suspect, or even to know! What if they could read it somehow in her eyes, or body? It is a great crime for a slave to pretend to be a free woman.	10
27	268	It was, somehow, however, within the pen.	10
27	276	But then why had it not killed me? Perhaps it wanted to get me somehow to its den and there make its kill, that the meat might be fresher? Or, perhaps, more plausibly, it might wish to keep me in its larder, or pantry, as it might be a rational beast, with an eye to the future, until it was hungry? ...	10
27	304	There must therefore, somehow, be some light, perhaps a tiny bit of light from the moons, or even the stars, filtered through the cover of clouds.	10
31	159	Too, undoubtedly somehow, on some deep level, perhaps something far beneath the level of discourse, of excuses, of considerations, of reason, he may have felt that he had been denied or thwarted, that he had been deprived of some due satisfaction.	10
32	91	Somehow, probably in the depths of my subconscious, I wanted to do almost anything I could, to learn how to please such a man, and surely dancing beautifully before him, vital and half-clad, might contribute to such an end.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	317	"In short," I said, "you entered the inn, and remained here, in spite of the fact that you had not the wherewithal to meet your obligations, expecting perhaps you might somehow do so with impunity, that your bills would perhaps be simply overlooked, or dismissed by the inn in futile anger, or that e...	10
7	9	Somehow, it seemed that the fire in the platform under the tub in which he now reclined had not been built up this morning.	10
8	757	Seeing me, he seemed somehow agitated, even extremely so.	10
9	43	I had hoped, of course, somehow, ideally, to be able to enter Ar's Station on tarnback.	10
10	246	Somehow it seemed she became even more sinuous, more sensuous, then.	10
12	329	As soon as it left the panel this time I bent down to see if it might be possible to seize her somehow from under the door.	10
13	57	"And many, most, I suspect, of those women of Ar's Station who had not managed to flee earlier, at the approach of Cos, or somehow escape the city, are in the citadel".	10
15	836	"Sometimes they wriggle well," he said, "perhaps because they are afraid, or because they think they can get off the spear somehow, or because they are trying to end it.	10
17	492	It must have appeared to most of them that my escape was cut off, that I was somehow trapped between the two stairways.	10

Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1256	Let us suppose that, to his amazement, and perhaps consternation, it becomes clear to him one evening that she has somehow changed, that she has somehow become a needful, radically sexual creature, really, and not for mere political purposes, so to speak.	10
1	858	To be sure, Temione was not a dancer, not in the strict, or trained, sense, but she could move, and marvelously, and so, somehow, she did, swaying before him, and turning, but usually facing him, as though she wished not to miss an expression or an emotion that might cross his countenance.	10
1	859	Yet, too, uncompromisingly, she was one with the music, and, particularly in the beginning, with the story, seeming to examine her own charms, timidly, as if, like the "Tina" of the song, she might be considering her possible merits, whether or not she might qualify for bondage, whether or not she m...	10
5	67	Toward morning, somehow, I fell asleep.	10
9	7	Perhaps rope might be worked free, or slipped, somehow, unseen, beneath the surface.	10
13	447	I must escape! Somehow I must avoid the fate into which they seemed bound to fall.	10
15	3	It had been a supposition of my keeper that I might, somehow, be able to communicate, perhaps by glances or such, with rencers.	10
15	16	I wondered if many wished, somehow, if only half consciously, to use his fellows for cover.	10
18	53	It is a bit like a rain, I thought, the first drops, then more, then torrents, perhaps for a long time, then eventually the easing, the letting up, then the last drops, then, somehow, eventually, what one had almost ceased to hope for, the clearing.	10
19	787	Then it began to fall, erratically, turning in the air, and then, somehow, again, it regained some stability.	10
19	1260	Indeed, it seems, somehow that they have been lit in the belly of the woman before him.	10
19	1268	Somehow she must be controlled.	10
19	1278	Somehow, given her behavior, her mien, that detail seems appropriate.	10
27	424	All, or almost all, of this glorious responsiveness was somehow within her.	10
40	16	I could well imagine Myron being somewhat reluctant to have it broadcast about that his supposedly helplessly trapped quarry had somehow slipped out of his grasp.	10

Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	146	Yet, if somehow, in spite of all, I should obtain her it was not even my intention to keep her but rather, as a gesture, merely dispose of her, giving her away or selling her off as the least of slaves.	10
9	809	It was almost as though they, somehow, in some hitherto untapped portion of their brain, or in some hitherto concealed, or suspected, but perhaps not explicitly recognized, portion of their brain, were prepared for, and understood, certain relationships, relationships which might be exemplified by, ...	10
15	11	Such demonstrations, in spite of the apparent beliefs of many of their participants, do not somehow materialize by magic, in response to some requirement of appropriateness.	10
17	425	"The slave was then carried onto the stage in the closed trunk, her body fastened somehow to the inside of the back panel".	10
19	511	"I thought that I was somehow special, or better!" I smiled.	10
19	1097	"Have I been somehow of service to masters?" she asked.	10
20	674	It is an expression, of course, which would be inappropriate applied to a free woman, even if she somehow approximated its meriting.	10
21	121	"It seemed friendly, even kindly, and charming," she said, "but, somehow, underneath, cold, or cruel".	10
22	26	Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for t...	10
24	379	"At any rate," I said, "I trailed Lavinia to this area, and I saw your slave about, too, and then, somehow, it seemed they disappeared".	10
27	1135	Will you fear to enter a room alone, or a corridor unescorted, for fear someone may be there, waiting? Will you fear dark places, or shadows? Will you fear high bridges, and roofs, and promenades, because you fear the loop of a tarnsman tightening on your body, dragging you into the sky, his capture...	10

Book 26. (45 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1732	But I felt somehow angry, somehow vaguely dissatisfied, even irritated.	10
2	109	It was not merely that it seems somehow inappropriate, or silly, and likely to be ineffective, to adopt a posture of belligerence when has a chain on one's neck, and cannot even stand upright.	10
2	114	Too, I did not doubt, somehow, but what I was not the only one, such as myself, in this place.	10
2	119	One tends, if naive, to think of those legalities with which one is most familiar as being somehow the only ones possible.	10
4	167	Even if I had been able to get loose from my collar, that by means of which I had been fastened to the wall of my chamber, even if I had been able, somehow, to get through the heavy door which kept me in my chamber, I would, I supposed, have soon encountered another barrier, that which, presumably, ...	10
4	404	This footwear somehow frightened me.	10
4	504	Or, perhaps, rather, I somehow, in some part of me, understood it only too well.	10
4	508	Somehow I wanted, desperately, doubtless dreadfully, for him to be pleased, genuinely pleased, with what he saw.	10
4	732	Surely they could not be used upon us! Surely these men, these leonine males, like gods and beasts, did not regard us as being subject to such attentions! But somehow I suspected that these men, these unusual males, these incredible males, our striking, magnificent captors, were not likely to be pat...	10
5	56	Could I be different from the others, in some sense I did not understand? I thought, somehow, I might be.	10
6	149	I had found them somehow in the piteous recesses of my needs, had drawn them forth as though from an ancient knowledge.	10
7	754	What could it mean? What could be the explanation for these things? It was almost as though she might have been somehow, personally, insulted or betrayed.	10
8	14	I had dreamed I had somehow found myself on an alien world, one on which such as I had their purposes.	10
8	63	I felt myself somehow bereft of identity.	10
8	83	I was then removed, so bound and so enveloped, from the wagon; I was carried for a time, over a shoulder, my head to the rear, which somehow seemed, vaguely, to be the way I should be carried, however shameful or embarrassing I might find it to be; and I was then, at the end of this peregrination, p...	10
8	106	I must have somehow, in my sleep, twisted about.	10
8	128	But instead, perhaps oddly, as I lay there, somehow half between waking and sleep, I perceived a sudden poignance, as of irreparable loss.	10
8	149	Somehow I must be disoriented.	10
8	236	Doubtless I would have been safer in my tepid, gray, polluted world, conforming to its values, being careful not to question, or to feel, or discover or know, but I, somehow, perhaps unaccountably, was not discontent to be where I was.	10
8	424	There was the hardness of the bars, and my softness, things so utterly different, and yet somehow, subtly, meaningfully complementary.	10
8	627	But whereas it seemed natural to think of the women of my world, or some of them, clad as I was, it seemed somehow foolish, or improbable, to think of the men of my world in the garmenture of the men of this world.	10
8	662	I wanted then, somehow, to more cover myself.	10
8	764	And what if they saw how willingly, how eagerly, how joyfully I did this! But I thought, rather, that they, somehow, if only after a moment or two, beneath the immediate, superficial crusts of their conditioning, on some deep level, would feel something quite different, not shock, not scandal, not d...	10
10	574	But we knew we were real somehow, something beyond the masks, the roles.	10
11	414	But now, of course, somehow, it seemed that she had come into the collar.	10
11	850	What then could I do? What then would I be? I had learned in the pens that I had an unusual potentiality for vitality, that somehow beneath the encrustations of a subtle, pervasive, insidious conditioning program, one to which I had been mercilessly subjected from childhood on, beneath, and in spite...	10
11	1388	It was almost as though I had been somehow magically flung into the past, into a world quite different from my own, a world whose ways I must speedily learn and in which I must learn, if I would survive, to be obedient and pleasing.	10
11	1567	Why then was I not carried away, or conducted somewhere? Somehow, now, I was no longer so certain that my disposition, apparently already determined, would be as lofty and certain as I had hitherto conjectured.	10
11	1629	I had gathered earlier that the piercing of the ears was regarded on this world as somehow rather significant.	10
11	1737	How pleased I was! But I was somehow angry.	10
12	371	There seemed something unsettling in it, somehow, the tiny click of the clasps, and such".	10
12	787	To be sure, she might have learned, somehow, to detect and interpret the slightest of sounds in such a place.	10
13	37	It seemed, somehow, so very real, and fulfilling to me.	10
13	222	This, I gathered, might be cultural, or perhaps he, somehow, oddly, despite his grotesque appearance, might be sensitive to some subtle canons of gentility.	10
14	21	You might even have managed somehow to escape punishment for the inadvertence.	10
14	1357	"He might have been afraid that she, somehow, in her rage, might have actually injured you.	10
16	644	And so it seemed that I, a lowly slave, figured somehow, in no way I clearly understood, in some obscure affair of state.	10
19	139	Involved, it seems was a matter of umbrage, one of offended pride, indeed, a matter construed somehow, correctly or incorrectly, as one of honor.	10
19	262	Did they never leap and run, and wrestle? Were they ashamed of having bodies, or of being alive? Had they somehow sought refuge in pathetic lies? Did they think that absurdities conferred dignity upon them? Such, I thought, might not function well in this demanding, hardy world.	10
29	245	Were it not for honor I would remain secretly, at the risk of my very life, in this city, to seek her, to somehow come into possession of her! Were it not for honor I would find my love, and fly with her! Kneel, head down!" The slave struggled again to her knees.	10
31	649	Suddenly, crying out, realizing somehow, in some dark part of that simple brain, in some instinctive fashion, that he had not a moment to spare, risking all, heedless of his back, swinging the stone about his head, the peasant, chains flying about his ankles, charged toward the bowmen.	10
37	51	One view is that the collar might jeopardize the hunt, for example, that it might be caught in a branch, or be somehow utilized to restrain the animal before it has located its quarry.	10
37	678	There was a sudden, half-strangled cry from across the pool as Herminius, clutching at his throat, legs kicking, seemed, somehow, to fly upward, into the darkness.	10
46	212	"Perhaps he is possessive," I said, "perhaps he wants me, somehow, all to himself".	10
46	241	I had felt the first time I had seen him, the first time I had knelt before him, looking up at him, the first time I had kissed his whip, that I was somehow his, that it was to him that I belonged.	10

Book 27. (41 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	3	And I fear that if I did not comply, somehow they would know, as always it seems they do, perhaps from some small cue, perhaps some slight movement, or cast of feature, or shading of complexion, or tremor, or reluctance, unbeknownst even to myself.	10
1	46	Even if the clock does not presuppose time as the object it measures; even if one were to think that the clock somehow created time, inventing it ab ovo, on the spot, still that clock would determine only itself, nothing else.	10
2	51	Somehow she was again in the aisle.	10
2	213	But, somehow, she did not want to lose sight of him.	10
2	220	It did not seem courageous to do so, but, somehow, necessary.	10
3	7	But it seemed oddly deep, somehow too soft, for her simple bed.	10
4	27	Did it suggest that the woman's femininity, the very principle of her femininity, was somehow uncompromisingly subjected to his masculinity, to the very principle of his masculinity? The young man then turned again, affably, toward the older woman, indicating the chair.	10
4	72	Did this mean that she, somehow, now shared some status, or condition, with that other woman, that trivial, simple, stupid, hated, beautiful Tutina? Surely not! Too, she now understood the meaning of the bandage which had been worn by Tutina to both performances.	10
4	81	She had not understand the reference, but, somehow, it had frightened her.	10
4	175	Did he not know that? The older woman, then pleased with the reticence and, for most practical purposes, the disappearance of the blonde, addressed herself delightedly to the young man, realizing that she was now somehow the center of his attention.	10
7	234	On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a...	10
8	173	She was sure that she figured somehow in what he was saying.	10
9	5	It did not seem appropriate, somehow, to kneel, as she was dressed.	10
11	406	She suspected that he must somehow love her, though perhaps in his own hard, severe, uncompromising, possessive way.	10
11	577	Sometimes men do not know why they are so exciting, but sense, somehow, that each movement, each nuance of expression, bespeaks subtly their profound, released femininity.	10
12	223	Perhaps she was being punished, but for what? Had she been put here for instructional purposes, that she might better understand her bondage? Why did he hate her so? Or did he hate her? Or could there be another reason? I must be special to him, somehow, she thought, that he has done this to me.	10
16	267	Surely Mirus of Ar, her master, would never let her out of his collar, really! Surely somehow he would keep her as his forever! Had he not remembered her? Had he not brought her to this world? Had he not restored her youth and comeliness? Had he not given her a beautiful name? Had he not put her in ...	10
16	400	She remembered her helplessness, she kneeling, facing away, head to the rug, hands clasped behind the back of her neck, astonished, affrighted, outraged, shocked, disbelieving, miserable, yet somehow simultaneously elated, willing, accepting, submitting, and the power of his hands on her body.	10
18	131	It pleased her, somehow, to be naked and collared.	10
20	369	The lead tarnsman loosed, as he could, arrow after arrow into the body of the attacking bird, and then, drawing his sword, for he carried no lance, tried to close with it, to strike it somehow, across the back of the neck, in that tumbling tangle of rage and hunger.	10
22	723	I must flee, somewhere, somehow, thought Ellen.	10
24	59	You then, somehow, have at least that much consideration for me.	10
25	942	In that image it seemed that, somehow, there were several young men then in the classroom, as there had not been, considering her, having her turn about, and so on.	10
25	1049	She had somehow managed to keep position.	10
26	353	Perhaps one might also note something further, but hope, as well, that this further observation will not be found disturbing, or disconcerting, to free women, might these recollections and reflections, however unlikely, come somehow someday within their ken, that of creatures so noble and refined, s...	10
26	624	Perhaps somehow, without understanding it, she had seen too much.	10
26	688	It seems he escaped and made his way toward Ar, but somehow he seems unaware of the political realities in the city, and neither to understand nor know his true self".	10
27	702	"I am willing to suppose that something, call it Priest-Kings, if you wish, might once have existed, long ago, but, if so, they are gone by now, and are at best a vanished race, an extinct species somehow recalled obscurely in legends, myths and lore".	10
27	841	There were sounds from it, guttural emanations, yet somehow half articulate, suggesting Gorean, or surrogates for its phonemes.	10
27	855	Then, without removing his gaze from that of Selius Arconious, whom he seemed to somehow sense might be the most dangerous, or the most desperate, or the most irrational, or the first to act, he uttered a succession of soft, low, almost gentle, growling noises.	10
27	945	Kardok stood up, his height expanding upward, almost as though he were slowly, somehow unnaturally enlarging, to something like nine feet.	10
27	1598	Somehow the men had fanned out, separated, perhaps prone in the grass.	10
27	1733	The other, the tarnster, is somehow one of them.	10
27	1888	How truly they speak of us! How do they know these truths? How bold they are to enforce them! Can I not, somehow, hide myself from the truths they see so clearly? No, she thought, in my collar I am not permitted to hide.	10
27	2009	He growled softly, or it seemed a growl, but yet it seemed also somehow articulate.	10
27	3299	As even on Earth they seemed to her, no matter how often she had denied this, somehow fitting for women.	10
28	60	Would my collar not show me slave? And even if I could somehow get it off, might not a man simply seize my leg and examine my thigh, noting there my brand? That would not be difficult.	10
30	466	"But you did seem, somehow, as I recall, of particular interest".	10
30	606	If, somehow, it should find publication on my old world, one must then expect it to be derided and denounced variously, with cuteness and cleverness, with subtlety and cunning, with virulence and hysteria.	10
30	663	If you are a female of Earth, and, perchance, somehow, despite all probabilities, you one day read this, despite all efforts to prevent that, despite all the efforts to keep these things from you, know that there is truly a Gor.	10
30	724	Doubtless on Earth, somehow, despite all, there are true men, masters, and rare and precious they must be, but such are abundant, indeed, almost universal, on Gor.	10

Book 28. (27 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	12	And would it not be demeaning to you, beloved of Agamemnon, to be caged alone, and I left free?" "I learned from Agamemnon, in the forest, he the metal larl, or within it, somehow, or controlling it, somehow, that you are his human".	10
1	8	Perhaps some microorganisms arrange their cilia in some bizarre fashion, and then understand themselves as being somehow thereby exalted.	10
1	93	He may not have recognized this, or, if he suspected it, he might have supposed that somehow sounds from within the container might be conveyed, doubtless by means of some listening device, to some point at which they might be audited, or recorded, for future audition.	10
1	137	The staging area, however, was destroyed, and somehow, in some way, Tarl Cabot seems to have been involved in its destruction.	10
1	375	Too, there was something about the other female that seemed somehow incomprehensibly different from the women with which she was familiar.	10
1	376	There was something somehow animallike about her.	10
1	404	He was much larger, and somehow much different, it seemed, from the few males of her species with which she was familiar.	10
1	782	And how unique and special she somehow seemed! He was pleased with the look of her.	10
1	798	I must be on my guard! The girl, meanwhile, was struggling to regain her former sense of self, somehow lost before this man.	10
1	813	Then she spoke to him, hoping doubtless that she might somehow be understood.	10
1	921	Some sensitivity, seemingly, had here been somehow engaged.	10
1	1277	Must she not somehow compete for his favor? At this point, she seemed to speak to him, but in response she received only his smile, which disconcerted her.	10
2	187	One of the Kurii looked into the container, to its back, to where the brunette, kneeling, bent over, trying to make herself small, as though this would somehow make her presence in the container less conspicuous, was trembling, uncontrollably.	10
3	216	"We must make do, somehow.	10
5	154	To him, of course, somehow, she was maddeningly attractive.	10
8	71	"Yes, free, how unfortunate," said Agamemnon, either from within the device, or somehow, in communication with it.	10
15	25	Why should that be? Had men scouted the blonde and decided she would look well in the wrapping of a leather collar? If not, why would they not have killed her in the forest? Had Tula and Lana somehow discovered her, and did not know what to do with her? Did they not realize the danger of bringing he...	10
19	62	There is amongst some species, including Kurii, a common belief that the wild animal is somehow superior to the domestic animal, but this is usually false.	10
33	84	It was very small, and somehow between the lake and the forests overhead.	10
40	115	If this were so, and if Lord Arcesilaus still somehow lived, he, in the cave, would have doubtless heard it, as well.	10
47	24	For a human it might be possible, somehow.	10
47	25	It must be possible, somehow! Agamemnon, Cabot was sure, in the dark gaming of war, had not anticipated humans intruding into this fearsome venue.	10
47	40	It was now as if it were somehow anchoring him, almost balloonlike to the steel.	10
57	103	Then, escaped from the camp, she betrayed the attack on the arsenal, that encompassing the slaughter of so many of our brothers, and then, clearly, returning, spying, she must have somehow become apprised of our plans involving the palace, and the Vale of Destruction, and betrayed those to Agamemnon...	10
63	12	Cabot feared to address him as he was, for it seemed maddened Kur had suddenly somehow become his friend.	10
67	36	It was now some five days after his departure from the ramparts that he heard an astonishing, unaccountable message, one somehow, as several others had been, on the great speaker system, a message which seemed to emanate, as they had, from a thousand points in the world.	10
79	511	"I gather," she said, "that as a free woman I was to be a temptation to you, one which would somehow bring about your downfall.	10

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	223	Had that been so should I not have been returned, liberated and thanked, perhaps even bountifully rewarded, to my holding in Port Kar? But I was here, somehow, on this remote beach, the forest behind me.	10
1	263	I do not think that she was objectively superior to the Kur pet, and might even have brought a lower price than the Kur pet in most markets, but she was somehow very special to me.	10
2	190	And, indeed, there are few caste members who are not convinced that their caste, somehow, is especially important, even that it may be, in some way, the most essential or the most estimable of all.	10
3	339	"Scarcely," he said, almost laughing, as though the idea were somehow preposterous.	10
3	774	I was now confident that his employers were not representing Priest-Kings, but others, perhaps brigands, or merchants, somehow associated with Kurii.	10
5	326	From Lady Constantina I had learned that a ship was somehow involved, and tarns.	10
5	480	But his action had been unavailing, and Ar had remained quiescent, even inert, though surely the screams of the tarns of war must have somehow reached her walls.	10
5	510	"In any event," said a bearded fellow, "it seems he emerged from the Voltai, thought himself somehow of the Peasants, and labored with them".	10
8	216	Honor, I was sure, was somehow entangled in these matters.	10
9	260	Putting aside cultural and historical considerations, as somehow irrelevant, surprisingly so, or illegitimate, astonishingly so, one might ponder whether or not biology is relevant to the matter, for example the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species, genetic predispositions, the pervasive r...	10
9	270	Perhaps she wanted to utter something which might seem to belie her appearance, an appearance which doubtless made her uneasy, or somehow troubled her.	10
13	59	It was predominantly wiped out in the rising, it seems, for its collaboration with the occupational forces, its extending of credit to them, to meet its payrolls, when the funds for these failed somehow to reach the city, its purchases of great quantities of loot, including women, for later retailin...	10
13	83	Similarly a tone of voice, a turning of the head, perhaps provocatively, the hurried readjustment of a veil, it having somehow become inadvertently disarranged, could turn the knife in a fellow's belly.	10
13	86	Had not nature, in her indifferent judgments, brought these complementarities together? Suppose there were somehow ten thousand randomnesses.	10
13	88	Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od...	10
13	96	It also occurred to me that women go to great lengths, almost always, unless subglandular, moronic, insane, culturally suppressed, or somehow ideologically perverted, to dress themselves attractively.	10
13	309	It was as though she feared somehow, as absurd as it might seem, she being so secure, and being Ubara, that she might feel the capture rope upon her any instant, like a common or private woman, and be carried away into what fate she knew not, perhaps even one as frightful as the collar itself.	10
13	333	"Talena," said I, "must somehow have escaped".	10
19	72	He was not large, but I felt a largeness somehow within him.	10
19	101	His consent or approval seemed important to me, somehow, and to the others.	10
22	113	How could they, free women, hope to compete in interest with a slave? A slave, of course, came with no companion dowry, no land, no wealth, no social or mercantile connections, but men, nonetheless, somehow, enjoyed having them at their feet.	10
24	136	Many Goreans, particularly those limited to the First Knowledge, have "use names" to conceal their real names, for fear the real names might somehow be used against them, perhaps in spells.	10
25	102	They were not dupes, fools, madmen, too stupid to understand how they had been manipulated by others, young men drunk with the wine of death, who think they will somehow thrive in the cities of dust.	10
25	203	Would not creatures fall from the world if they ventured too far thence? Too, if they could somehow cling to the surface, and move about in such precincts, fugitives or madmen, adventurers or explorers, perhaps by means of ropes or nailed sandals, would not such a life be uncomfortable and dangerous...	10
28	394	But then her father had somehow returned, it seemed from the Voltai, and the insurrection had subsequently occurred, casting forth, violently and bloodily, the occupying forces and restoring the rightful governance of the city.	10
32	40	Yet I somehow did not discount Lord Okimoto, or see him as negligible or ineffectual.	10
38	38	And, too, of course, many men first found their personal slave in so unlikely a place, little suspecting that the collared beauty, kneeling, head down at the table, serving their paga, one of others, might somehow come to seem special to them.	10
41	42	The sea sleen is an unusual animal, presumably related somehow to the varieties of land sleen.	10
41	58	It swims all night, in the darkness, following us, somehow keeping up with us, and we with a fair wind.	10
42	6	It seemed somehow, in these moments, the beast had renewed its vitality, and had come alive again.	10

Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	292	His "horde," as historians would come to speak of it, lay encamped outside her walls, poised to breach her defenses, ready to enter, sack, and burn the city; all seemed lost; but Marlenus, somehow abetted in his return by a figure now thought by many to be mythical, a Tarl of Bristol, which city we ...	10
1	296	Somehow, it seems, she was apprehended by Rask of Treve, perhaps in trying to return to Ar.	10
2	180	My station was forward, and I suddenly, unwillingly, realized that I was now clinging to what was only a part of the ship, a recognition I somehow frenziedly fought against acknowledging, not wanting to see it, or understand it, that she had been snapped in two.	10
3	236	It was as though the Delta Brigade had spread an anticipatory terrain of tinder and oil throughout the streets of Ar, into which great Marlenus, come somehow to the city, flung the torch of revolution.	10
5	231	Even were he, somehow, a match for the former Taurentian's skills, it would be wrong of me to accept his intervention.	10
12	98	Two, however, Quintus and Lykourgos, had somehow perished in the great forest, during the march from Tarncamp to the Alexandra.	10
12	199	Was I somehow special? I did know her as the former Lady Flavia of Ar.	10
12	660	Perhaps few understand the meaning of their restlessness, their irritations, their distractions, their turnings and thrashings in the night, or perhaps, somehow, they understand them only too well.	10
12	711	"I gather he thinks I know her whereabouts," said the tarnsman, "that he might somehow find her through me".	10
13	29	Few skeletons had been found on the derelicts, which suggested that men, perhaps in madness or desperation, had somehow fled these strange fields or perished in the sea.	10
20	251	How was I to understand it? What did it mean for my sex, and for me, who was of that sex? I felt myself somehow a part of that great difference, and union.	10
23	56	An accident, presumably, had somehow taken place in the darkness, somewhere above, perhaps at the rail itself, the stray movement of a weapon, a running against an anchored blade, or such.	10
23	80	It was apparently only a tiny remnant of a once mighty force, driven about, harried, fought, defeated again and again, some seven or eight hundred men, perhaps a thousand, which, exhausted, bloodied, and starving, on a gray, cold morning, surrounded save for the sea, awaiting an onslaught they could...	10
29	72	"That will not be necessary," said a quiet, polite voice, but one which somehow carried.	10
33	137	They thought it the name of a remote place on Gor, from which lovely barbarians, illiterate, somehow, unbelievably enough, not even capable of speaking the language, were harvested for the markets.	10
36	89	"Although the progress of the investigation was putatively confidential," said the captain, and largely confined to the various prison barracks, where the would-be deserters were held, this Tyrtaios seemed, somehow, to have been well apprised of how matters were proceeding.	10
37	1137	One gathered they somehow supposed that nature was a mistake, the foe of happiness, rather than its foundation and truth.	10

Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1177	To be sure, even if I had known not a word of Gorean, but had found myself somehow on that platform, so clad, so regarded, perhaps having been magically transported from my own world, wafted away, somehow, from chatting, strolling, or shopping, it would not have been difficult to understand what was...	10
30	178	"Somehow," he said, "we must gather information, somehow we must make contact with the Lady Bina".	10
4	79	But somehow, inexplicably, I was naked.	10
4	80	Somehow, in the night, I had slipped from my night gown.	10
4	228	But, somehow, we did not raise our heads.	10
4	236	"Surely you understand how inconsistent such things are with the certain dictates and dogmas of our culture," she said, "with, say, certain principles and notions which are to be taken as beyond question or review, principles and notions which are to be accepted uncritically, mindlessly, without inq...	10
4	720	Strangely I was naked, having apparently somehow slipped from my nightgown in the night.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	28	Could it be I was somehow his, I asked myself, that I belonged to him as an object to its owner, as a slave to her master? Had I not sensed such things before, of this callous, uncompromising, dominant brute, many times? Could I return, somehow, retrace my steps, seek him out, put myself to his feet...	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	30	I had always entertained a high opinion of the Peasants, their wisdom, foresight, and astuteness, their understandings of seasons and weathers, their stalwart copings with winds and rains, droughts and floods, their somehow making fields rich and bountiful, their somehow bringing forth the harvests ...	10