| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 144 |
A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement. |
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| 4 | 134 |
The tier nearest the floor, which denoted some preferential status, the white tier, was occupied by Initiates, Interpreters of the Will of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 4 | 140 |
I was pleased to note that my own caste, that of the Warriors, was accorded the least status; if I had had my will, the warriors would not have been a High Caste. |
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| 4 | 166 |
Aside from candidates for the status of Warrior, none of my caste was permitted to enter the Council armed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 33 |
To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case in Ko-ro-ba, women were permitted status within the caste system and had a relatively unrestricted existence. |
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| 8 | 18 |
Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ... |
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| 21 | 45 |
The collar of a given girl may be changed countless times, but the brand continues throughout to bespeak her status. |
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| 22 | 167 |
Yet as the status of these women became more ennobled and less clearly defined the subtle tensions of dominance and submission, instinctual throughout the animal world, tended to assert themselves. |
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| 22 | 177 |
Although they despise men and congratulate themselves on their more lofty status it seems to me that they, too, fail to respect themselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 14 |
On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts... |
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| 9 | 17 |
The point of this restriction, I suppose, is to draw a clearer distinction between her status and that of a Free Companion. |
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| 1 | 33 |
These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves. |
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| 2 | 168 |
The vivid coloring and intensity of these scars, their prominence, reminded me of the hideous markings on the faces of mandrills; but these disfigurements, as I soon recognized, were cultural, not congenital, and bespoke not the natural innocence of the work of genes but the glories and status, the ... |
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| 10 | 209 |
He could not, of course, compete in these contests, for there is status involved in these matters and only warriors of repute are permitted to participate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 387 |
Excellent merchandise, some risk, but every likelihood of achieving a status of considerable value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 177 |
This will sound strange, I suppose, but the workers of the arsenal, as long as they make enough to live reasonably well, are more concerned with their work, as craftsmen, than they are with considerably and indefinitely improving their economic status. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 297 |
Briefly, through my mind flashed the memory of my former riches, of the penthouse, the Maserati, my luxuries, and education and travels, my former status and power, and then of my capture and my transportation to this rude world. |
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| 12 | 370 |
I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please... |
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| 17 | 164 |
But I think he feared I might become to him a certain sort of slave, a special sort of slave, one to whose status I would not dare to aspire, one whose name I dare not even speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 327 |
She, even if freed, without family, and, by the same act, without caste, would have a status beneath the dignity of the meanest peasant wench, secure in the rights of her caste. |
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| 14 | 273 |
I do not refer to the cruelties of Gorean slavery, which celebrate women and, in their rude fashion, often, uncompromisingly, force the helpless, total surrender she yearns in the heart of her to give, but the subtler, crueler slaveries of Earth, pretending to respect her and then, by education and ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 1 | 331 |
"Your status now, whether you know this or not, is less than that of the meanest peasant wench, secure in her caste rights". |
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| 4 | 276 |
But no longer now were they both well-to-do and of similar status. |
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| 10 | 315 |
If the thrall had been nothing in Torvaldsland before, he was now less than nothing; his status was now, in effect, that of the southern male work slave, found often in the quarries and mines, and, chained, on the great farms. |
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| 21 | 18 |
The fixing of the Kur collar, it had been decided by Svein Blue Tooth, was equivalent to the fixing of the metal collar and, in itself, was sufficient to reduce the subject to slavery, which condition deprives the subject of legal status, and rights attached thereto, such as the right to stand in co... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 157 |
Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd... |
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| 10 | 378 |
One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea... |
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| 11 | 286 |
The girl, Alyena, rode next to the last in our line, in the position of least status; she was followed by one of Hassan's men, the guard; such a guard is commonly posted; he, from time to time, watches the trail behind the caravan and, of course, prevents the escape of slave girls. |
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| 24 | 622 |
Whereas this may have injured their vanity somewhat I supposed this possible slight to their status would be more than compensated for by the strength of the new arms in which they would now gasp and writhe. |
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| 26 | 316 |
There she lived, free but of no status; she was no longer recognized, in the sight of its Home Stone, as a citizen of Ar; she had not even the collar of a slave girl for her identity; she was kept sequestered by Marlenus in the central cylinder, that his shame not be publicly displayed upon the high... |
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| 26 | 705 |
This status is not something which a wise master lets a woman forget, ever. |
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| 26 | 848 |
She need only look upon her body to find visible, explicit evidence of her status, to be reminded of her station, and servitude. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 66 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
10 |
| 3 | 131 |
On Earth, I had enjoyed a rather elevated socioeconomic status. |
10 |
| 3 | 481 |
The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law. |
10 |
| 3 | 500 |
I wondered what could be my status on this world, now that I had been marked. |
10 |
| 3 | 587 |
What could be my status on this world? Only animals were branded. |
10 |
| 3 | 596 |
I knew then that I was a Kajira, and, too, I gathered that this status, whatever it might be, was one I shared with Eta; she had said "La Kajira" to him in a fashion which clearly suggested that she was acknowledging herself a "Kajira" before him. |
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| 7 | 73 |
Their efficiency and convenience mandates their use, regardless of the legal or social status of the girl on whom they are placed. |
10 |
| 7 | 233 |
"Considering your future status," said my master, "you may begin now to address free men by the title of 'Master. |
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| 7 | 742 |
The garment proclaimed Lehna's superiority, and higher status. |
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| 7 | 1406 |
The woman, on the other hand, being owned, is institutionally and helplessly subject, in her status as slave, to the submissions of love. |
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| 22 | 24 |
Further, I knew she would wish me to be a demure girl, a fitting serving slave for a lady of wealth and rank, one whose status and image requires that her girls be paragons of shy, perfect obedience, humility and modesty, that they reflect not the least dishonor upon her. |
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| 22 | 449 |
But the collar is pretty, and helps her to keep in mind, clearly, her status. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1202 |
As they came to understand more fully their new status and condition, that they were truly slaves, I did not doubt but what they would muchly regret their naiveties and indiscretions on the platform. |
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| 15 | 743 |
Indeed, frigidity is one of the titles and permissions implicated in the lofty status of a free woman. |
10 |
| 15 | 1135 |
"In view of your status," I said, "it is denied. |
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| 21 | 399 |
Every modality of her life contributes to her heat, her legal and social status, her beauty, her clothing, if permitted such, her postures and movements, her collar, everything. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 331 |
Without his cooperation, and the significance of his prestige and status, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce my will on the chain. |
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| 23 | 336 |
In asking him I had also, of course, indicated my respect for his opinion, which, incidentally, I did respect, and, in using the title of Mfalme, I had acknowledged that I, for one, would continue to recognize his lofty status in Ukungu. |
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| 27 | 186 |
What need they know of their transition between the status of the free woman and that of the despised, vendible animal? It is not for such as they a knowledge of the nature and modalities of their transport. |
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| 32 | 346 |
Legally you have no more status than a tarsk or vulo. |
10 |
| 32 | 472 |
She was, of course, in her status, as well as in her vulnerability, desirability, and beauty, well thought of in terms of that category. |
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| 34 | 801 |
From the Gorean point of view the wife of Earth occupies a status which is higher than that of the slave but lower than that of the Free Companion. |
10 |
| 48 | 338 |
What better to convince a female of her status as property, and animal? Women speak lyrically and beautifully. |
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| 51 | 107 |
The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant Law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexual readiness, ... |
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| 57 | 170 |
Free Gorean women, incidentally, enjoy a prestige and status which, it seems to me, is higher than that of the normal Earth woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 155 |
She is now truly slave, far beyond the brand and collar, and a legal status, far beyond chains and bonds. |
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| 24 | 120 |
All honor to the free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensat... |
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| 24 | 124 |
One must, you see, respect the status and dignity of the free woman. |
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| 34 | 165 |
Perhaps of greater interest is the fact that, despite their lack of legal standing, and their strict status as no more than a vendible commodity, no more than a curvaceous, collared property, they are acclaimed and celebrated, and relished and sought after, with gold and leather, with lust and intel... |
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| 34 | 189 |
Society approves of their status, and they themselves desire it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 59 |
My despicable status by his will is thus proclaimed to all. |
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| 32 | 136 |
"Are you so desperate for status among your fellow sleen," asked Kliomenes, "that you will risk such lies in this place?" I kept my head down. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 29 |
This was the same house which we had earlier occupied together, when I had mistakenly permitted the slave the dignity and status of the free woman. |
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| 19 | 916 |
These things being as they are, the translation of a Gorean woman of high caste to the collar is likely to be in its way as grievous, or more grievous, a social dislocation in status for her as the reduction of an Earth woman, who has never even considered such a fate for herself, to the collar. |
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| 20 | 1806 |
He has no more status than a draft animal. |
10 |
| 20 | 1809 |
Gorean society is a status-conscious society. |
10 |
| 20 | 1810 |
In it the slave is without status. |
10 |
| 21 | 761 |
"Speak no more of position and status, and how one might be viewed by others, and esteemed or disesteemed, such unimportant things," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 698 |
Women on this world, most of them, enjoy a status and freedom of which you, from Earth, cannot even conceive. |
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| 13 | 280 |
"In family barterings," I said, "barterings concerned with alliances to consolidate or improve social position, the woman's utility, as I understand it, is substantially realized with the successful completion of the bartering process, when she is, in effect, exchanged for status and power. |
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| 13 | 410 |
"Do you feel that your treatment by her was motivated by some insecurity on her part, by fear for her position or status, that she may have seen you as a threat?" The girl was silent for a moment. |
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| 13 | 545 |
She sees that there is nothing special about her status or condition. |
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| 13 | 550 |
Even many women brought from one city to another, perhaps as a result of raids or wars, take their new status and condition for granted. |
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| 13 | 1034 |
"Here, on Gor," I told her, "your station, your status, your class, your prestige, are gone, taken with your name and freedom. |
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| 13 | 1059 |
Her legal status precludes its possibility. |
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| 13 | 1360 |
"But, even given the uniqueness of each bondage relation," I said, "there are still certain common denominators in all such relations, which must not be lost sight of, such as the legal status of the slave, that she is, ultimately, only an article of property, that she is liable to discipline and pu... |
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| 13 | 1468 |
Both conditions, so to speak, are accorded a similar status. |
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| 13 | 1510 |
"Even here, however," I said, "you will note that both words suggest a similar status. |
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| 13 | 1619 |
"You have tied me, then," she said, "like a she-tarsk!" "Do not flatter yourself," I said, "that you enjoy a status as high as either that of the pig or she-tarsk. |
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| 13 | 1620 |
Your status is lower than that of either. |
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| 13 | 1657 |
"The taking of a free woman," I asked, "in which, to some extent, her dignity, pride and status are respected, or the taking of a slave?" "I am a slave, Master," she said. |
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| 14 | 267 |
It is little wonder that the free woman, concerned with her putative identicality, her status, her image, her dignity and pride, is often inhibited and sexually inert in the furs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 332 |
In being Canka's slave I had a status and place in the Isbu camp which, in its way, sheltered me from the type of sportive attack to which a lone, free white man might be otherwise exposed. |
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| 1 | 439 |
I had no delusions concerning my status. |
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| 2 | 333 |
"Iwoso has high status with the Isanna," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 7 | 156 |
It is almost a holiday in the slave quarters when a high slave is to be whipped, particularly if she is then to be reduced to the status of a common girl. |
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| 37 | 45 |
The collar, too, of course, and she was already in a collar, a leather-rope collar, makes her exquisitely attractive, indicating her status, that she is only a lovely, owned she-animal, to be done with as one pleases. |
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| 43 | 356 |
This kind of difference in binding, or shackling, in which the free woman wears easier or more comfortable bonds than the slave, is in deference to the status of the free woman. |
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| 48 | 26 |
The status of being a public slave tends to be an ambiguous one. |
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| 48 | 27 |
What is a girl to do, how is she to act, to whom is she to relate? In such a status she is an impersonal property, as of a state, clan or tribe. |
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| 56 | 4 |
"That will confirm your status upon you," I said, "legally, and in the eyes of all". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 927 |
I saw that, again, she was answering me in the fashion in which, doubtless, I wished to be answered, doubtless with deference to my dignity, status or freedom. |
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| 4 | 374 |
And had I wished further confirmation of my condition and status surely I had received it earlier today, from the very citizens of Corcyrus itself. |
10 |
| 6 | 601 |
Indeed, on this world I even enjoyed a particularly exalted status, one a thousand times beyond that of my embonded sisters in the city below. |
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| 7 | 100 |
They will think you are merely a new girl, either a slave or one who, optionless, will soon be reduced to their status, one who will then be no more than they". |
10 |
| 10 | 158 |
"At least," I said, "I have satisfied myself as to the condition of the citizenry and the status of the city". |
10 |
| 11 | 126 |
"Suitable disciplines and punishments may be arranged for a free woman," he said, "suitable to her status and dignity". |
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| 18 | 250 |
Clearly my status was either bond or that of a captive. |
10 |
| 20 | 50 |
Somewhat to my surprise they, looking at me, and once assured of my bond status, seemed to find no difficulty whatsoever in accepting the premise that I was indeed a slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 58 |
Seldom can they aspire even to the status of the kettle-and-mat girl. |
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| 24 | 167 |
A consequence of this ordinance from the point of view of a female slave is that she cannot now even permit herself to be taken for a free woman by accident; her bondage is always manifest; it is helpful from the man's point of view, too; he always knows the status of the woman to whom he is relatin... |
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| 32 | 27 |
Neither of us could guess his office or status. |
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| 32 | 144 |
Too, of course, on her neck, now, there was a locked, close-fitting, steel slave collar, and on her thigh, of course, might be found a certain meaningful mark, one apprising all who might find it of interest of her status, that it was bond. |
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| 33 | 754 |
"Our status, prestige and livelihood do not depend on the perpetuation of ignorance and the propagation of superstition". |
10 |
| 36 | 308 |
Free women were so different from me, with their ornate garmenture, their imperious bearing, their regal carriage, their pride, their insolence, their position, their status, their power. |
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| 36 | 348 |
"I was protected by my freedom, my dignity, my status, my position and power!" "And where are such things now?" "Gone, Master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 350 |
She was now rightless, only a nameless animal, incapable of doing anything whatsoever to qualify or alter her status. |
10 |
| 3 | 298 |
"Your status here," she said, "is that of a servant, a total servant, until I have you enslaved". |
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| 4 | 78 |
She was very defensive about her status in his eyes. |
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| 4 | 80 |
If it were acceptable to discuss sensitive matters before his slaves, women like herself, but reduced to a status as negligible as that of furniture or animals, then surely it should be similarly acceptable to discuss such matters before a male, she must have reasoned, one who shared his sex, but wa... |
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| 6 | 24 |
This facilitates, in any possible dispute or uncertainty as to their status or condition, a clear determination in the matter, by anyone, of course, but in particular by guardsmen or magistrates, or otherwise duly authorized authorities. |
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| 6 | 85 |
It must be understood, of course, to fully appreciate what was going on, that the public exposure of the features of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, or with some pretense to position or status, is a socially serious matter in many Gorean localities. |
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| 6 | 1225 |
It is one thing to do this in a city where one, and one's financial status, is reasonably well known, and quite another, as you may well imagine, to do it in a strange place before strangers. |
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| 10 | 372 |
"I have status and position. |
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| 11 | 43 |
Similarly her beauty has not, as yet at least, as you can see, been graced by the imprinting upon it of some delicate emblem indicative of the status of property, some device recollective of the unmistakable, transforming kiss of the blazing iron! As advertised, as proclaimed, as announced earlier, ... |
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| 12 | 124 |
Her entire attitude was one of slovenly disregard for our status, that of free men. |
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| 12 | 742 |
In a different situation, of course, this might have constituted a suitable and humiliating punishment, involving a public reduction in her status, particularly before other girls. |
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| 15 | 47 |
That was surely a concession to her status, that of the free woman. |
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| 15 | 67 |
"You were the cause of my loss of status in Brundisium, my descent from favor in the eyes of my Ubar, Belnar, the reason I have been denied the right to conceal my features, my right as a free female, the reason I have been placed in brief, shameful garments, forcing me to make clear to men my femal... |
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| 15 | 68 |
Now all changes! Now, fool, you will be the reason not only for my restoration to privilege and station in Brundisium, the reason for my new rise to favor in the court, in the eyes of Belnar, my Ubar, but the cause, as well, of my attaining there, in the palace and in the service of my Ubar, and the... |
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| 21 | 46 |
Let this communicate something to her of her loss of status; let it, too, unsettle her to some extent in her hitherto-unquestioned confidence in her own extraordinary beauty; let her become uncertain about it, confused, apprehensive; would this not encourage her to become a better, more avid, even m... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 167 |
"Thank you, thank you, Master!" In a slave there is doubtless an immediate, abstract, intellectual understanding of her condition, say, that of her legal status, that she is property, and beast, particularly if she is a Gorean girl, and is culturally familiar with the institution, but this intellect... |
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| 4 | 433 |
Not identifying with the women, or being accepted by them, and perhaps coming to bitterly envy the men, their position and status, their nature and power, it seemed she may have turned toward trying to prove herself the same as them, turning then to mannish customs and garb, attempting thusly, despe... |
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| 5 | 129 |
After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and tr... |
10 |
| 5 | 383 |
Not only were they beautiful, though, indeed, they were not expensive, but, in Gorean eyes, they much confirmed, deeply and positively, her status upon her. |
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| 18 | 72 |
She understands, too, of course, as any woman would, that a chained female is sexually stimulatory to a male, unless perhaps it be a bored, jaded slaver, the chains making clear her vulnerability and property status, that she is a possession. |
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| 18 | 84 |
And as she, with her high intelligence, is swift to learn how to move as a slave, with a slave's beauty and grace, and to serve and kneel, and perform obeisance, and to wear revealing tunics and silks, appropriate to her status, so, too, she is quick to learn how to wear chains, and move in them, an... |
10 |
| 18 | 272 |
"Then you might see her act, considering all that is involved, the bold confession, the loss of status, the stern nature of bondage, the now belonging helplessly and totally to a master, how free women will now treat her and look upon her, as the act of a very brave woman," I said. |
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| 19 | 242 |
Such men, with their internal esprit de corps, their identification with their own units, their allegiance to their personal commanders, their status, privileges and skills, their proximity to the delicate fulcrums of power, hold in their hands the power to enthrone and dethrone ubars. |
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| 25 | 1284 |
Free persons are immeasurably her superior in status and power. |
10 |
| 25 | 1341 |
They want to know them with a depth, detail, and intimacy that it would be quite inappropriate to expect of, or desire from, a prideful free companion, whose autonomy and privacy is protected by her lofty status. |
10 |
| 26 | 370 |
Accordingly she knows that they, so sweet and soft, so delicious and marvelous, so wonderful and exciting, will, like the rest of her, without a second thought, be submitted to attentions appropriate to her status. |
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| 26 | 2043 |
Leashing, of course, of either variety, is excellent psychologically for the female, as it confirms her femaleness upon her, that she belongs to men, and is on a male lead, and, if she is a slave, it confirms as well her bondage on her, and helps to make clear to her her animal status. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 214 |
It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and the mark on h... |
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| 3 | 61 |
If I had lost status in this admission, it had now been lost, and it was now no longer to be worried about. |
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| 4 | 35 |
What did that mean? What must be my nature here, then, I wondered, or my condition or status, in this place, that I could be so awakened? Though I was an educated, refined, civilized woman, a contemporary woman, a modern woman, I supposed, in some sense, I had been awakened by a whip! I had felt the... |
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| 5 | 59 |
Similarly, another indication of our status here is that, occasionally, one of our names, an Earth-girl name, would be bestowed on a girl of this world, as a punishment, usually a temporary one, indicating that she was now to be regarded as one of the lowest of the low. |
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| 6 | 321 |
Not such a woman! Never such a woman! But then why was she so hostile? Did she think that our service and beauty, our yielding to our hearts, lessened or demeaned her in some way? What a puzzling inference! What an absurd conclusion! What a grotesque mockery of thought that would be! Must all women ... |
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| 6 | 436 |
Women such as I, I feared, thus, even if clothed, would be clothed in distinctive manners, manners which would be particular to us, manners which would mark us out, and make us prominent and visible, manners which would leave no doubt as to our condition, and status, and generally, I suspected, scan... |
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| 8 | 185 |
They are a mark of status. |
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| 10 | 246 |
"But the whip will be always there, should you require refreshening on your status, or become to any degree less than perfectly pleasing," he said. |
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| 11 | 545 |
"She is then to have the same status as your other women, and to be available to your customers, and such?" asked Mirus. |
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| 11 | 1069 |
This would be significatory of the alteration in my status, informing anyone who might look upon it that I had now been opened. |
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| 11 | 1281 |
It may be, of course, that this was merely another kindness on his part, that I be now reminded of my status, that I wore a collar, that I was naught but a slave, I do not know. |
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| 33 | 95 |
"But I am curious to know what my status is, Master," I said. |
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| 33 | 97 |
"Your status?" he asked. |
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| 33 | 114 |
"That is your status," he said. |
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| 33 | 117 |
"Speak your status, the sort of slave you are," he said. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 415 |
Accordingly, the marking out of prisoners, identifying them as prisoners, the alerting of others as to their status, etc. |
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| 1 | 417 |
The nudity, or semi-nudity, of the prisoner is likely to alert all who observe it to his status. |
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| 1 | 519 |
That was suggested by what must be its status. |
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| 5 | 245 |
Too, he had doubtless seen that she required informing, as to her nature and status. |
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| 8 | 499 |
Lady Phoebe of Telnus was, of course, a free woman, and though she was a capture, in a sense, she had a special status with me. |
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| 8 | 644 |
"You must now be seen not as a pretentious, lofty, secure, arrogant, sacrosanct free woman, shielded and sheltered in societal immunities, snug in status and privileges, but rather now as something quite different, rather, now, as exquisitely feminine, as radically and unutterably female, as lovely,... |
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| 11 | 118 |
The pride and glory of their rank and elevated status precludes this; it would not be dignified. |
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| 14 | 80 |
Yes, I thought to myself, you are free, but what is that now but a matter of civic status, the consequence of a trivial, not-yet-officially-rescinded legal technicality? For already you have begun to sense, and learn, the meaning of your beauty, and the truth of your inmost being. |
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| 15 | 275 |
Slave girls, too, I knew, occasionally practiced such wiles with their brief, scandalous ta-teeras, supposedly mere rags, befitting their degraded status. |
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| 15 | 305 |
"I have the privileges of my status! I am unique and precious! I am priceless!" "You may be unique and precious," I said, "one does not know about that, but I doubt that you are priceless". |
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| 15 | 312 |
It makes clear, in the home and on the street, her status, that of a slave, that of a domestic animal. |
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| 15 | 447 |
"Yes," whispered Lady Claudia, speaking not her legal status but her truth. |
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| 18 | 315 |
Why should a collar slut, an animalized property, and not she, revel in the joys of submission and service, helpless in the thrills of being utterly dominated, denied to the free woman? Surely she should be denied the unspeakable gratifications consequent upon her contemptible status. |
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| 21 | 131 |
Also, interestingly, absurdly, it seemed that she was not altogether sure of her condition and status, obvious though it must be to anyone who looked upon her. |
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| 21 | 518 |
"Chief among them," he said, "would seem to be misrepresentation of status". |
10 |
| 21 | 557 |
Her entire behavior had been calculated to deceive those about as to her status. |
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| 21 | 561 |
I had not wanted her to assert, explicitly, in response to the question of Aemilianus, concerning her status, that she was a free woman. |
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| 21 | 564 |
It is a very serious "cause for punishment" on the part of a slave to conceal or deny her status. |
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| 21 | 593 |
"Do you think it is acceptable for properties, for animals, to pretend to the status of persons?" "No, Master!" she said. |
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| 21 | 758 |
"The question," said Aemilianus, "is not so much the suitability of the female for "helpless-slut" status as one of justice". |
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| 21 | 873 |
She is incapable of doing anything to alter, change or affect her status. |
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| 21 | 967 |
It did not seem likely that in the future there would be any doubts about Publia's status, nor, indeed, that of Claudia either. |
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| 21 | 1076 |
This is in accord with their status as domestic animals, and, too, it enables their slightest, most fleeting expressions to be read by their masters. |
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| 21 | 1151 |
With her embondment she had become a girl, a girl, with all the humiliating reduction in status so signified, but, too, now, she was subject as well to all the suggestions of extreme vulnerability, and of nubility, readiness, beauty, freshness, and sexual desirability, which that term connoted. |
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| 21 | 1154 |
There is nothing chronological in this, of course; it is a cognomen merely of status, a cultural, sociological matter. |
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| 21 | 1155 |
Too, they soon become proud to think of themselves as girls, in the sense of exciting, beautiful, needful, mastered slaves, for in this status they realize they are being recognized as, and praised as, of a worth and interest far above that accorded to the inhibited, suppressed, cumbersomely clad fr... |
10 |
| 21 | 1260 |
On Gor status and condition are important. |
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| 21 | 1336 |
I supposed, too, that it might have an effect in discouraging her, should the opportunity arise, as I did not think it would, from seeking to implement another deceit with respect to her status in the immediate future. |
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| 21 | 1376 |
To be sure, her past status and deeds do remain a part of her history, even if she is now only an animal. |
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| 24 | 62 |
Among them, with no special sign of her status, as being the preferred slave of Aemilianus himself, was Shirley, only one slave amongst others. |
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| 24 | 697 |
But by then she is already a slave, and has come to expect such things, given her status. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 142 |
If anything the contrast between such a name and her status can be provocative. |
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| 1 | 145 |
Free women, it might be noted, in passing, however, usually object to such names for slaves, as it seems, in their view, that such lovely names should be reserved for those of their own status. |
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| 1 | 151 |
Such names seem to them identificatory, and leave them in no doubt as to their condition and status. |
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| 1 | 414 |
This is probably because bells are so beautiful on them, and so brilliantly and insightfully symbolic of their status as domestic animals, that they are properties, that they are in bondage. |
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| 31 | 442 |
"They are too much concerned with their status, dignity, freedom and independence to be any good in the furs". |
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| 37 | 79 |
"The one you brought with you from the Crooked Tarn," he said, turning about, "she in the condition of captive, assigned the status of full servant?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 37 | 405 |
"She was, of course, before being reduced to animal status, before becoming a domestic animal, a Cosian," he said. |
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| 37 | 498 |
The strip, however, is to be narrow and the cord no more than a lace, these things conforming to her status as captive and full servant". |
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| 43 | 79 |
"What is her status?" I asked Ephialtes. |
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| 47 | 146 |
What a reduction in her status had taken place! What a lowly slave she had become! Besides the men of Octantius there were several others, too, who had gathered about, a small crowd, in fact. |
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| 48 | 614 |
Marcus needed have no fear, in my opinion, that if she were in such a garment, that either she or anyone else would be in any doubt as to her status. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 438 |
"Release me!" "What is more pertinent to our purposes," said Tolnar, "is your legal status, or, in this case, it seems, your former legal status". |
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| 2 | 244 |
Only recently she had been a free woman, though, to be sure, one who had been long kept, languishing, it seemed, and, of course, incompletely fulfilled, in the status of a mere captive. |
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| 3 | 308 |
To be sure, if one prefers an inert, or frigid, or anesthetic, so to speak, woman, one may always make do with a free female, inhibited by her status, and such. |
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| 3 | 603 |
At first the slaves were terrified of them but then, when it became clear that the women were not only truly serving humbly, as serving females, but that they now looked timidly up to the slaves, and desired to learn from them how to be women, and scarcely dared to aspire to their status, the fears ... |
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| 5 | 76 |
In making an offer of this sort, of course, Talena was implicitly claiming for herself the status of being a Ubar's daughter, else the offer would have been, as one of the fellows had suggested, absurd. |
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| 7 | 263 |
Myron, however, bowed low before Talena, in this perhaps saluting the loftiness and honorableness of her status, that of the free female. |
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| 8 | 478 |
To be sure, such women, reduced to slavery, quickly learn to kneel and usually, considering their new status, with their knees widely apart. |
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| 9 | 649 |
In this way was their status well marked out. |
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| 14 | 37 |
"What is your status?" I asked. |
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| 14 | 178 |
Slave girls have much in common, such as their brands and collars, their typical garmentures, their entire condition and status, the sorts of labors they must perform, and the problems of pleasing masters. |
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| 17 | 82 |
The collar, too, of course, helps to make clear to the slave, and others, her status as a domestic animal. |
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| 19 | 89 |
To be sure some masters use certain domestic tasks as a way of distributing status amongst slaves. |
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| 19 | 833 |
This is one of the reasons, I suppose, why the often sexually starved free women, enwrapped in respect and dignity, secure in their lofty status, resplendent in their robes and veils, even in their inertness, and cultivated coldness, are deeply troubled by the thoughts of what ensues amongst masters... |
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| 21 | 10 |
To be sure, her exposed calves and bared feet would have left no doubt in the streets as to her status. |
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| 24 | 125 |
Deprived of it, of its protections, of its loftiness and emblematicity, of its comfort and reassurance, of its pretense and status, she is much other than she was before. |
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| 24 | 164 |
The status of free women on Gor, particularly those of the upper castes, I note, is extremely high. |
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| 24 | 173 |
I suppose this is the primary reason why the status of the free woman on Earth is so low, so unimportant, so familiar as to be meaningless. |
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| 24 | 174 |
Contrariwise, I suppose it is reasonably clear why, given the nature of the culture, and the societal actuality of the contrast between free and slave, the status of the free woman on Gor is so high, so meaningful. |
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| 24 | 178 |
That, too, gives the Gorean free woman status, and its lack on the part of a woman of Earth places her much on the level of animals and slaves. |
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| 24 | 288 |
Both Marcus and I, of course, as we usually did, wore our armbands, signifying our status as auxiliary guardsmen. |
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| 26 | 440 |
"What was your legal status before you entered this room?" asked Tolnar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 227 |
Perhaps she presumed too much on the status of a high slave, which status, it seemed, must be hers. |
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| 5 | 78 |
Our house, it seemed, enjoyed some special status. |
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| 7 | 811 |
Aynur, she who was first amongst us, Aynur, in her rich silk, and ornaments, Aynur, in her golden talmit, with the affixed ruby, had fetched sandals, and before such as Tima and Tana, not to mention before one such as my own lowly self! On this world hierarchy exists, and status, and rank, and dista... |
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| 7 | 877 |
Only I, who only a few days ago had first been permitted silk in the garden! This pleased my vanity no small bit! Too, in a sense, it would surely elevate my status among the flowers, if they came to know of it. |
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| 7 | 972 |
Too, might she not attempt bribe guards, or such, promising rich rewards for her release? But let her not be apprehended in such an intrigue, lest her lofty status vanish by morning, and she find herself in the garden then no more than another such as we. |
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| 8 | 265 |
I have hitherto been reluctant, as you may have noticed, perhaps even foolishly, to speak explicitly of my status, and condition, on this world, which remains so to this moment, but I suppose it has been evident to the reader—if this is permitted to come to the attention of a reader. |
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| 8 | 269 |
That is common with women or, better, considering our status, girls, such as I. |
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| 8 | 270 |
Perhaps it has been evident that my status on this world is something with which the reader is likely to be unfamiliar, perhaps even something that he would find it hard to understand. |
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| 8 | 275 |
Aside from the words, of course, my condition, my status, is doubtless clear to you. |
10 |
| 8 | 383 |
This sort of thing is thought useful in reminding us of our status. |
10 |
| 10 | 86 |
Any possible doubts as to my status had been dissipated. |
10 |
| 10 | 167 |
Similarly, when a woman is leashed her status is made clear to her. |
10 |
| 11 | 311 |
"She has no status, even as a slave," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 572 |
Too, such names sometimes help the new slave to make the transition to her new status and condition. |
10 |
| 11 | 703 |
But even had it not been for my understanding of what I was, an understanding going back even to my native world, one which I had achieved, but had scarcely admitted to myself, long before I had been brought here, and one which I now understood even in terms of actual, significant, pertinent legalit... |
10 |
| 11 | 719 |
So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs o... |
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| 13 | 229 |
Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends upon the whims of males? There is a thin l... |
10 |
| 13 | 1211 |
High status had she amongst us, certainly! She was the only one amongst us, for example—of me, and the women in the kennels, and those at the wall—who had clothing. |
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| 14 | 216 |
The luxury of the straw-filled pallet was doubtless an acknowledgment of her status as a free woman. |
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| 24 | 970 |
Gone would be their privileged status, that of the free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 |
The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such. |
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| 1 | 110 |
But her status, her condition, had changed. |
10 |
| 1 | 116 |
Her status, her condition, had undergone a remarkable transformation, one of which she was totally unaware. |
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| 2 | 67 |
His questions, too, were unacceptable, inviting her to explain the universal manifestation in all cultures of embarrassing constants, such as patriarchy, male status attainment and male dominance in male/female relationships. |
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| 2 | 100 |
This difference in age, as well as her status as the instructor, should have given her dominance in this encounter. |
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| 2 | 207 |
Perhaps, she thought, she should run after him, to apologize, she, in her fifties, and despite her status as an academician, one not unknown in her field, surely one with suitable publications, one with, too, impeccable credentials. |
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| 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. |
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| 6 | 66 |
They did not, incidentally, explain to her one aspect of the social structure, or perhaps better, of the culture, in which she would have been almost certain to have taken a great interest, that condition, or status, which was irremediably hers on this world, that category, so to speak, to which she... |
10 |
| 6 | 67 |
Perhaps this was because they had received instructions in this matter, or perhaps it was because they thought that she, an obviously intelligent woman, was already aware of such things, her status and condition, and such, or, more simply, what she was, what she, simply, absolutely and categorically... |
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| 7 | 78 |
"What is my status here?" "Can you not guess?" he asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 109 |
Indeed, women of a status, or station, above her own commonly veiled themselves when appearing in public, particularly those of the high castes. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
There were others of her status in the room, and surely they, at least, were appropriately garmented, were accorded the simple, natural garmentures, so brief, so clinging, so revealing, which seemed to be culturally prescribed for those of their station, which station she had no doubt was hers, as w... |
10 |
| 11 | 58 |
The woman, surely, did not know Tutina's status. |
10 |
| 11 | 178 |
Perhaps it had been best left unsaid? Perhaps she was only being trained to be some sort of intimate servant? But surely that seemed unlikely, that the young man would have accorded her so exalted a status as "servant". |
10 |
| 11 | 241 |
Could it be she? It was she, she realized, it was! It could be no other! It was she! How the collar enhanced her beauty, in a thousand ways, aesthetically and psychologically, and how delicately, unmistakably, and beautifully, too, was her status, condition, and nature made clear, fixedly and absolu... |
10 |
| 11 | 442 |
A free woman, in her status, in her loftiness and power, in her glory and might, was another form of being altogether, quite different from herself. |
10 |
| 11 | 608 |
Indeed, given her beauty, and her current status and condition, she took it as a matter of course that she would be found of interest. |
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| 12 | 437 |
Thus, though the slave girl has, like any other woman, her charming, delicious, ingrained, biologically selected-for prostitute tendencies, she is scarcely in a position to use them in order to garner for herself rich gifts, economic privileges, appointment preferences, status, prestige, advancement... |
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| 15 | 174 |
"Considering their status on Earth, their machinations, and such, that seems to me both amusing and fitting". |
10 |
| 18 | 148 |
How could she, with her background, her antecedents, her education, her former status and station, her delicacy, her beauty, her shyness, her inhibitions, even think of leaving the cylinder, of going forth as she was? Then, after that time, sobbing, fearing she might be whipped for dallying, she ste... |
10 |
| 20 | 600 |
Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, ... |
10 |
| 20 | 726 |
The state slaves with the march wore, as noted, a variety of tunics, and their status was marked out simply by the small, rectangular gray patches. |
10 |
| 24 | 474 |
The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo... |
10 |
| 25 | 188 |
She suspected that her status, her condition, her situation, her fate, her fortune, her experiences and such, those of an Earth woman brought to Gor as a slave, were not unique to her. |
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| 25 | 399 |
"But in this manner you will learn the perfect categoricality of your situation and status, that you cannot alter or qualify your condition in any way whatsoever, to even the smallest possible degree, that you are helpless, absolutely helpless in all such matters, in short, that you are a complete a... |
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| 25 | 586 |
Then Ellen recalled the haughtiness of the former free woman, her former superciliousness, her almost intolerable arrogance, how she had treated Ellen, though she, too, beneath her robes was no more than another female, and thus a fit slave for men! Had she no understanding of herself? Had she never... |
10 |
| 25 | 1007 |
In any event, aside from any cultural ambiguity which might attend the station or status of the Merchants, Mirus would presumably concede nothing in caste merit to the fellow who had just, it seemed, dared to gainsay him. |
10 |
| 25 | 1114 |
Gorean free women, particularly of high caste, have a status which is far higher than that of the average free woman on Earth. |
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| 25 | 1118 |
In any event, aware of her status and station the Gorean free woman, particularly if of high caste, commonly regards herself, and is culturally justified in doing so, as a very special and superior creature, one generally aloof and unapproachable, one commonly lofty and exalted. |
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| 25 | 1126 |
Too, her transition from free to slave, given her background, is not as radical and dramatic a transition as would be that of a Gorean free woman to the same status, that of bondage. |
10 |
| 26 | 909 |
He need not know that it had a lesser status on Earth. |
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| 26 | 1196 |
The uses for which we petition, you see, as we are slaves, will be very different from the tamenesses which would be appropriately accorded to a free woman, uses conformable to her status and dignity. |
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| 26 | 1239 |
How fine and noble, how lofty and exalted, are free women, thought Ellen, and how I am nothing before them, but for all their status and glory I would not trade my collar. |
10 |
| 27 | 524 |
She well understood her status on this world, and had long understood it, that she was goods, a shapely commodity with which men might do as they wished. |
10 |
| 30 | 483 |
She has her position in society to consider, her station and status. |
10 |
| 30 | 487 |
Sometimes a free woman, who fears that her feelings for a projected companion, to her dismay and scandal, are more intense, suffusive, overwhelming and passionate than is proper for one of her status will withdraw from the projected match. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 241 |
It can serve, of course, as a decoration, a symbol of status, a concealment of provocative or vulnerable areas, and so on. |
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| 1 | 338 |
As the pet of a Kur she had an unusual status amongst the few humans in the Steel Worlds. |
10 |
| 1 | 430 |
Certainly, too, she would not wish to share her importance and status with another pet. |
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| 1 | 689 |
It spoke not of ideas and theories, or verbalisms, or of the fencings and cant in which she had sought to perfect herself, of the skills which brought status in her world, but of a different world, one of which she knew but little, one in which she had little part, one in which she did not belong, o... |
10 |
| 1 | 913 |
The brunette's denials of her collaring, and her insistence on her status as a free woman, once she even understood what he was asking, had been violent and intense, even hysterical. |
10 |
| 1 | 1047 |
The codes do, you see, recommend respect for the status of the free female, if not for the female herself. |
10 |
| 4 | 131 |
The brunette did not follow the conversation well, given the current status of her Gorean. |
10 |
| 5 | 399 |
It indicated, after all, her particular and enviable specialness, her status, amongst humans in the habitat. |
10 |
| 11 | 120 |
Gorean society is muchly based on status and hierarchy. |
10 |
| 18 | 101 |
Had she realized her status as a free woman, and the nature of men, she might have striven to hold her body exquisitely still. |
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| 22 | 92 |
Too, she suspected how she, bound, might understand, and gratefully welcome, even the stroke of the whip, unfit for free women, but confirming for her as it would her status as object and property, as something subject to the whip, as something owned by her master. |
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| 32 | 64 |
Cabot bowed, respectfully, for he was in the presence of a free woman, and such are to be treated with the courtliness due to their status. |
10 |
| 36 | 399 |
"Doubtless I have little to fear now from Goreans," she said, "as my status as a mere beast of burden is well displayed". |
10 |
| 44 | 185 |
She had been reduced to the status of a Kur female in the presence of a dominant. |
10 |
| 55 | 138 |
She has a recognized nature, condition, status, and identity, which she is incapable of altering or qualifying in any way whatsoever. |
10 |
| 56 | 205 |
Who better in such a cause than a human warrior to bear to Kur warriors the ring of Arcesilaus, mightiest of Kurii, mightiest of the foes of Agamemnon?" "I think," said Cabot, ruefully, "that they might have been shamed to face a fellow Kur in such role, one still with pride and status, who did not ... |
10 |
| 66 | 83 |
"Whereas they, like Goreans, tend to think of all females as slaves, particularly as they consider their bodies in comparison with those of men, they do recognize that some females, however unaccountably, or irrationally, have a far superior status than themselves, that of the free woman". |
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| 76 | 11 |
In this way she makes her status unmistakably clear. |
10 |
| 76 | 23 |
It is also helpful, of course, if the society recognizes her status, accepts it, and approves it. |
10 |
| 77 | 168 |
The number of women on a fellow's rope, or a group's rope, would then become a mark of prestige, rather as the number of kaiila in one's herd, or in one's tribe's herds, would become a mark of wealth and status amongst the warriors of the Red Savages. |
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| 79 | 302 |
Their status, their condition, their reality was then well confirmed upon them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 191 |
Both were, at the time, though without Home Stones, yet free women, you see, and thus, given the nobility of their status, not to be lightly put to one's pleasure, certainly not without suitable provocation. |
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| 1 | 194 |
The analogy is imperfect but suppose a society of rigid status, of severe hierarchy, and the rank and dignity that might be attached to the daughter of, say, a royal or noble house. |
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| 1 | 394 |
The slave, on the other hand, as she grows accustomed to her status, and its remarkable value in the eyes of men, tends to revel in its enhancement of her charms, a pleasure which is likely to be seriously begrudged her by the more heavily clad free woman. |
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| 4 | 360 |
You do not have the status of a Gorean free woman. |
10 |
| 4 | 388 |
If she insults him, belittles him, ridicules him, or treats him in any way which he deems improper or unbecoming, sometimes even to the glance, depending on the fellow, she is considered as having put away the armor of her status, and may be dealt with as the male sees fit. |
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| 9 | 44 |
The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman. |
10 |
| 9 | 46 |
Her safety, of course, would lie with men, and masters, who would to the extent practical, given a free woman's status and prerogatives, protect her. |
10 |
| 10 | 56 |
In any event both were on the platform with Lord Nishida, which suggested status, though in a subordinate position. |
10 |
| 10 | 97 |
As many companionships are arranged between families, with considerations not of love, or even of attraction, paramount, but of wealth, prestige, status, and such, and the young people often being scarcely considered in the matter, this is, I suppose, understandable. |
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| 10 | 102 |
If, however, a contract woman might find herself in love with a client, she, being quite human, and utterly helpless in her contractual status, might, understandably, resent his interest in, say, another contract woman, or, even, as absurd as it might seem, a collar-girl. |
10 |
| 10 | 718 |
I gathered he had low status, for the women of the "strange men" are taught much respect to males. |
10 |
| 20 | 65 |
To be sure, Sumomo was of the Pani, and had the status of a contract woman. |
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| 23 | 249 |
A free woman, of course, either walks next to a free male, or, in some cities, precedes him, as a mark of her status. |
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| 25 | 42 |
What of his own status? Was it secure? Perhaps there were others who aspired to the pavilion of the daimyo. |
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| 32 | 36 |
In this I gathered they shared some status, or station. |
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| 34 | 78 |
"The importance of the Ubara," she said, "the height and grandeur of her place, your modest status, if I may remark it, Master, that we have heard nothing of the Ubara, that we are here, in a remote location, far from the cylinder cities, the ports, the caravan routes, the trading places, somewhere ... |
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| 37 | 22 |
Her face is commonly bared, except in severe weather, and, in any case, there is no mistaking her status, given her garmenture. |
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| 38 | 151 |
Their rich raiment and status will be exchanged for the tunic of a slave, if that, and a collar. |
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| 44 | 54 |
Her status and condition were now clear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 196 |
And certainly they were reminiscent of the multiply stranded, temporary collars, tied shut, sometimes put on captures, particularly on stripped free women, the stripping and collaring serving to make clear their transient status, prior to an appropriate marking and collaring. |
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| 1 | 213 |
It makes their barbarian status clear, and thus gives their mastery, in its perfection, an interesting and exotic flavor. |
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| 3 | 817 |
I did not wish to claim status for him, as some about the fire might be familiar with the merchantry of the great port. |
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| 3 | 966 |
' It was a command such that a woman, despite her status, whether slave or free, could not but obey instantly. |
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| 6 | 32 |
One is familiar with the haughtiness, the arrogance, the pride, of the typical free woman, defended by guardsmen, ringed by the walls of her city, well-veiled, well-robed, secure in her status, unassailable in station, ensconced in society's regard, but there is another pride, too, little spoken of,... |
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| 6 | 44 |
The free woman has pride in her status, the slave in her sex, in her holistic fulfilled womanhood. |
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| 9 | 61 |
I did not understand their status. |
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| 10 | 75 |
The slave girl knows many small, homely joys, and appreciates them, and treasures them, in ways the haughty free woman, secure in station and status, can only mock. |
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| 15 | 200 |
When the girl had passed Tyrtaios she had averted her eyes and lowered her head, deferently, as befitted her status, slave. |
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| 17 | 80 |
To be sure, they had a higher status, and were presumably respected and treated with courtesy. |
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| 18 | 82 |
"I need only broadcast the matter of your former identity, your fugitive status, the bounty involved, and such". |
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| 18 | 142 |
They may not know your identity, but they surely suspect something of the sort, a fugitive status, a possible bounty, and such, and after suitable inquiries might well discover your former identity. |
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| 24 | 74 |
The clothing permitted to the slaves, considering their status as livestock, was rather ample, as the tunics, their single garment, extended to the center of the calf, as opposed to being high on the thigh, and often cut at the hip. |
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| 26 | 62 |
The Pani free women, incidentally, seem, except for the companions of high officers, and such, to have much lower status than the typical Gorean free woman, certainly one of upper caste. |
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| 30 | 148 |
I supposed that one neither easily attained, nor easily retained, the status of daimyo in these strange, warlike islands. |
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| 34 | 79 |
"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 263 |
It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world. |
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| 4 | 180 |
She pointed to the door and, shuddering, stumbling, numb, we turned about, unable to speak, unable to comprehend the dissolution of our reality, the sudden and catastrophic loss of our position and status, taken as given and unassailable but moments ago. |
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| 7 | 743 |
Demands on lower-caste women, on the other hand, were less, as befitted their inferior status, and such women were more likely to enjoy a life of open flirtation, even of comparative vulgarity and bawdiness. |
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| 9 | 125 |
Such things make clear the difference in status between the free and their properties. |
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| 9 | 146 |
Normally, when there is doubt as to the status or condition of a woman she is given to free women, who may then, with respect to her modesty should she be free, examine her body, for a possible collar, or brand. |
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| 10 | 6 |
In the markets and the streets I had seen the typical garmenture of other women's slaves, following their mistresses, heads down, modestly, supposedly that they might not reflect upon their mistresses by exchanging glances with passing men, garmentures which served to demonstrate at once the status ... |
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| 10 | 195 |
There, almost anyone may sit upon a chair, whereas here, particularly in private dwellings, such an ensconcement is often reserved for individuals of status or importance. |
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| 10 | 664 |
Many would prefer not to count the Warriors as a high caste, but there are few who would openly deny their title to the status, as they are armed. |
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| 10 | 830 |
He, though a stranger to Gor, was at least no stranger to matters of rank, distance, and hierarchy, no stranger to questions of status, no stranger to probabilities, nor to politics and political relationships. |
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| 18 | 64 |
Rawlinson had much enjoyed the scene, observing the reduction of her former charges to the status of captures destined for Gorean markets. |
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| 19 | 101 |
They have a status comparable to that of conquerors and poets. |
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| 20 | 109 |
She was softer now, more helpless, more vulnerable, more dependent, now without status, now scarcely clothed. |
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| 22 | 34 |
When she is again returned to her robes, and status, rejected and humiliated, woe to any girls whom she might own. |
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| 27 | 21 |
I would learn that the status amongst the Kurii was indicated, to themselves, at least, by differences in harnessing, and by rings worn on the left wrist. |
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| 49 | 172 |
The free woman on Gor has a status and power which would astonish most of the putatively free women of my former world, but then the Gorean commonly thinks of the women of my former world not as free women, at least as he understands that, but rather as slave stock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 190 |
How dare he not remember me! How could he forget? Was it not he who did this to me? Was it not he who brought me to my chains? Was it not he who is responsible for this radical transformation in my fortunes, my condition, and status, for my reduction and degradation? Should I not hate him! Should I ... |
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| 7 | 289 |
How lost she was amongst us, so isolated and alone, reduced from her former status, and despised by her sister slaves. |
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| 9 | 202 |
Indeed, amongst slaves a tunic, in its way, constitutes a symbol of status. |
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| 13 | 180 |
Such scenes are not unprecedented on Gor, though commonly the slave would have been tunicked, revealingly, and scantily, of course, as would be appropriate for her condition and status. |
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| 15 | 688 |
I did think it likely that Gorean free women, given the culture, were probably far more conscious of their position and status, of their freedom, their exalted station, and such, than those of my former world. |
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| 17 | 103 |
I had gathered that the Gorean free woman, in the might of her liberty, possesses a standing, prestige, status, and force far beyond that of the allegedly free woman of Earth. |
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| 17 | 116 |
Do they not have everything for which a woman might long, cultural elevation, standing, status, prestige, power, dignity, and respect, even awe? Why then are they so unhappy? And why are they so cruel to us, and hate us so? We are not interfering with their precious freedom. |
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| 25 | 147 |
Related potions which might be quaffed by free women, if they should choose to do so, for they are free, are reputedly mild and flavorful, as would be suited to their status. |
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| 43 | 401 |
The question is independent of status and condition. |
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| 46 | 54 |
Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law. |
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| 49 | 60 |
The status is putatively higher. |
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| 50 | 357 |
I did not know his status at Shipcamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 496 |
In a sense she was then a slave, though she was herself unaware of her new status and condition. |
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| 4 | 149 |
The Pani keep slaves, but the cultural status of the contract woman is superior to that of the slave, and considerably inferior, naturally, to that of the free woman. |
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| 4 | 150 |
On continental Gor there is no status equivalent to that of the contract woman. |
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| 7 | 362 |
It is difficult to convey to one unfamiliar with the cultural pertinences the social status of the Gorean free woman. |
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| 12 | 65 |
But I do not think our free women, here in the islands, have quite the pompous, exalted status inflicted on free women across Thassa". |
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| 12 | 166 |
However these things may be, despite her acculturation, and her relatively lowly status, she commonly treated Tajima with an unbecoming scorn, contempt, and amusement. |
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| 12 | 168 |
After all, she was not a Gorean free woman, as across the sea, veiled, hidden in the robes of concealment, a woman exalted and resplendent in status and dignity, a woman safe in her station and secure in her privileges, even one who possessed a Home Stone. |
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| 12 | 181 |
Does not he who is less in status bow first? Indeed, does not the lesser officer, by word or gesture, first acknowledge the presence of the senior, or higher, officer? "Greetings, Lord," I said. |
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| 29 | 292 |
Obviously a nude slave has little status amongst clothed slaves, even given the usual nature of the clothing likely to be permitted to a slave. |
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| 30 | 308 |
Indeed, this position, suitable to the negligibility, shamefulness, and degradation of her status, is often assumed in the presence of the free. |
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| 30 | 312 |
I could understand her desire to bathe, for her body bore not only some residue of Tajima's early ministrations in the camp where we had first made contact, his application of dirt, ashes, soot, and such, designed to confirm her status as a field slave, but now, as well, the stains and flakage of dr... |
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| 41 | 43 |
To have her isolated, as though she might have the status of a prisoner, perhaps a special prisoner, might excite comment, even arouse suspicion". |
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| 46 | 439 |
When young women of Earth are brought to the Gorean markets, they are sometimes unclear as to their status. |
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| 46 | 440 |
For example, might not even a free woman be herded about, with switches, naked and chained? On the other hand, once their thigh has encountered the searing iron, leaving behind for all to see a lovely kajira mark, once they find their neck fastened in an attractive, locked metal collar, clearly a sl... |
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| 61 | 380 |
How he must have dreamed of buying her contract! Now she had no more status than a tarsk, another beast which may be owned. |
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| 61 | 647 |
I suppose that it is difficult for one unfamiliar with Gorean culture to appreciate the social status of the Gorean free woman, at least in the high cities. |
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| 61 | 648 |
It is quite different from the status, such as it is, in which the women of, say, Earth, are commonly held. |
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| 61 | 650 |
Indeed, I have sometimes suspected that the low status of the "free woman" on Earth, together with her common lack of veiling, the freedom with which she reveals her wrists, hands, ankles, and such, have led many Goreans to regard her as open slave stock, as opposed to, in the view of some, conceale... |
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| 61 | 959 |
Apprised she should have a male colleague to aid in dissembling her true status and role on Gor, she had enlisted Gregory Smith, well aware, from small incidents, of his remote, hopeless, infatuation with her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 272 |
"My status is highest," said the woman in the torn evening dress. |
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| 6 | 481 |
How important clothing is to a woman! How much her sense of self, her sense of importance, of worth, of status, of what she is, depends on her garmenture! But we were naked now, stark naked, save for the tunics of slaves. |
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| 8 | 18 |
Sometimes an enslaved Gorean woman is given a barbarian name, to enforce upon her the lowliness, the humiliation, and degradation, of her new status. |
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| 11 | 140 |
Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a Home Stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority, even to the occupancy of thrones, and who may enter into relati... |
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| 26 | 83 |
The slaves are at the disposal of the men, as one would expect, but I, as a private slave, a status envied by my collar-sisters, was reserved to my master. |
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| 30 | 368 |
I strove to please him, and in many ways, many of which were conventionally forbidden to the free woman, for they were regarded as incompatible with her status and dignity, for I had been much instructed in the house of my training. |
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| 45 | 191 |
If there were free women present, the decision as to the feeding of the slaves would have been left to them, in deference to their status, which is far higher than that of free women on my former world, Earth, sometimes referred to by Goreans privy to the second knowledge as the Slave World. |
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| 46 | 100 |
"Perhaps," said the voice, "you would enjoy status, position, power, and riches". |
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| 49 | 35 |
Commonly, popularly, there are five high castes, the Warriors, which claims sword right to the status, and who would deny that right to armed men, the Physicians, Builders, Scribes, and Initiates. |
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| 51 | 75 |
In the beginning, many new slaves, just out of the pens, or shortly after feeling the capture loops, are terrified to be viewed in the garments in which they will now be placed, tunics that make their new status, that they are only slaves, clear to all, let alone camisks or ta-teeras. |
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| 52 | 158 |
The men, and Lord Grendel, then, affably and civilly, began to discuss a number of arrangements that might appertain to the projected exchange of two captives, Lyris, a Kur female, and Eve, whose nature or status seemed less clear. |
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| 53 | 24 |
It might be mentioned, in passing, that the pomerium, as one would expect, given its legal status, is often attended by certain social and legal restrictions. |
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| 53 | 242 |
A female Kur without harnessing is without status. |
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| 61 | 531 |
Associated with freedom is standing, respect, dignity, prestige, status, privileges, and power, and acknowledged claims and rights. |
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| 63 | 104 |
Similarly, individuals with some official status, or official guests of the city, or such, may be furnished such conveniences at the expense of the state. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 63 |
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu... |
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| 8 | 387 |
It comports with their authority, their dignity, and status. |
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| 8 | 451 |
Would you have had her gainsaid? Would you proclaim her to be in error, or, worse, lying? Would that not be unthinkable, insupportable? Would it not be grievously insulting? Would you dare to hint, even privately, that she, in her status and freedom, might be flawed, might be less than righteously p... |
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| 11 | 251 |
She was allegedly the daughter of Marlenus, the Ubar, himself, which status had doubtless facilitated her ascent to the throne in his absence. |
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| 12 | 5 |
I supposed he might be diffident or ill at ease in the presence of one of those exalted, lofty Gorean free women, secure in her status, haughty, mercenary, and demanding, protected by a shared Home Stone, but his relation to the female slave, a half-naked property, purchasable, collared, and marked,... |
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| 29 | 39 |
The passengers were diverse in attitude and mien, and varied in apparent wealth and status. |
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| 40 | 20 |
In this way, she is given to understand that she, despite being free, does not have the status of the free women of the captor's city. |
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| 40 | 23 |
Too, so situated, the slaves are well reminded of their status, that they are beasts, purchasable, vendible beasts. |
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| 40 | 28 |
Many slaves, it must be understood, love their masters with a love that few free women, with their concern for status, self-image, self-containment, balance, commensuration, and proportion, could equal. |
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| 42 | 264 |
And I had no doubt but what the former Adraste, with all her rancor and resentment at her former status, afflicted with the memories of her perceived degradation, would be a most demanding and formidable mistress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 153 |
It serves to deepen, confirm, and reinforce the slave's understanding of her status, of what she is. |
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| 16 | 116 |
The young women of many such islands, villages, or stations, seek the status, security, honor, and pleasures, of the companionship. |
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| 17 | 30 |
She had had high status. |
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| 29 | 105 |
"But," I said, "as you and your colleagues are free women, and are entitled to the privileges of your status, we are willing in your case to refrain from the embarrassing unpleasantries of vulgar coercion. |
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