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Terms

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	86	"The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	35	"What are your terms, Warrior?" she demanded.	10
16	49	"I do not find the terms satisfactory," she said.	10
16	53	"Are my terms satisfactory to you?" asked the Tatrix, rather condescendingly, I thought.	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	39	The notion of friendship, it seems to me, has to do with a reliance and affection between two or more individuals; the notion of Nest Trust, as nearly as I can understand it, is more of a communal notion, a sense of relying on the practices and traditions of an institution, accepting them and living...	10
14	167	"You must not understand these things," said Misk, "in terms of what you know of men.	10
17	26	He might have asked Mul Translator Engineers for such an expression and an explanation of it, and I supposed they might have given him the expression "friend" and explained it for him, more or less adequately, in terms of the normal consequences of the relation designated, such things as tending to ...	10
26	210	I was forced to remind myself in no uncertain terms of the cleverness of this consummate actress, and how so many men had weakened to her insidious blandishments.	10

Book 4. (9 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	25	* * For purposes of convenience I am recounting directions in English terms, thinking it would be considerably difficult for the reader to follow references to the Gorean compass.	10
8	185	"What are your terms?" he asked.	10
8	195	The terms of the wager were soon well known.	10
8	417	"Your terms!" she challenged.	10
9	38	"I did not realize Port Kar was on friendly terms with any of the inland cities," I said.	10
22	146	Then one of the Tuchuk girls pointed to her ex-mistress and cried out, "What am I offered for this slave!" and one of the men, joining in the sport, would cry out a price, some figure in terms of copper tarn disks.	10
25	371	"But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co...	10
25	607	"I do not care much for your terms," I said.	10
26	53	"He is coming to bargain with Saphrar, but I can better whatever terms he is offered—for I have all the gold and women of Turia, and by nightfall I will have the private hordes of Saphrar himself".	10

Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	181	After the murder of Om, who had been on tolerable terms with the Administrator, the new High Initiate, Complicius Serenus, in studying the omens of the white bosk slain at the Harvest Feast had, to his apparent horror, discovered that they had stood against Kazrak.	10
2	188	And since Kazrak was originally, perhaps surprisingly, of Port Kar, a city not on particularly good terms with Ar, or any other Gorean city, there was the hint of sedition in such matters.	10
2	278	"Does it not offend you? Are you not outraged? Even in terms of merchandise and prices cannot you see what it would mean? Even now the lesser houses find it difficult to acquire premium slaves, and when we obtain them, we are undersold.	10
3	41	Those who play the game for money have a hard lot, for the market is a buyer's market, and commonly men will play with them only on terms much to their satisfaction.	10
3	95	"Your terms?" asked the Player.	10
3	108	And through this small crowd, when it heard the terms of the Vintner, there coursed a mutter of irritation.	10
4	129	Indeed, I had instructed her, when she had returned late to the House of Cernus, to bewail and protest what had theoretically happened to her in no uncertain terms.	10
15	11	I reminded myself, again and again, as the month clock rotated, that Caprus was a trusted agent of Priest-Kings, that Misk himself had spoken in the highest terms of him.	10
19	70	How seriously the men of Gor understand these representations depends doubtless on the man; but even those who, upon reflection, laugh at them, I have found, do generally regard the women of other cities rather differently than they regard their own, thinking of them almost automatically, particular...	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	448	"It is my proposal," said Samos, "that the council approach Cos and Tyros, offering terms of peace".	10
11	451	"Of course," said Samos, "our terms will be rejected".	10
13	33	"Tharlarion of Port Kar!" "I gather," I said, smiling, "that our terms of peace are rejected".	10

Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	307	Moreover, he was a Gorean male, and would see me, Elinor Brinton, not in terms of my antecedents, background, education, sophistication, wealth, dignity and refinements, but in terms of the collar, and pleasure! Moreover, if he bought me, I would have to serve him, and perfectly, as what I would the...	10
7	347	Accordingly I learned the language directly and immediately, fluidly, not as an architecture of grammatical cases and a series of vocabulary lists, in which foreign terms stood matched with English terms.	10
2	51	I sensed that more had occurred to me than could be accounted for simply in the terms of the world I knew.	10
7	300	It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value...	10
7	301	It is no surprise then that the Gorean male thinks in terms of the mastery.	10
8	1069	I would be used with patience, and care, and delicacy and thoroughness, and efficient mastery, until I had yielded myself to him, on his terms, not mine, until I, proud and angry and free, had been reduced to a humbled, shattered, pleading, surrendered female slave.	10
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...	10
11	1259	They think commonly only in gross terms, such as her being trained in the dances of various cities, and in the arts of love, as practiced in various cities.	10
14	432	Others find pleasure in taking one who has been a slave, and then teaching her truly, on their own terms, what it is to be a slave.	10
14	545	"It is common for them to view us as mere women, and see us in terms of their sport and pleasure".	10
17	286	The house of Bosk and the house of Samos, it seemed, stood on good terms, the one with the other.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	270	I had not accepted their terms.	10
20	208	"Can you hear me? Do you accept these terms?" I made no sound.	10
22	704	Goreans do not see the world in terms of metaphors taken from the artificialities of the theater.	10
22	708	Their actions and behavior, thus, though not independent of certain long-range environmental and sexual relationships, cannot be understood in terms of mere responses to the immediately present environment.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	173	It would be seen in terms of the envy and resentment of inferiors for their superiors.	10
10	325	These cities are not on good terms but they, civilized men, both in the far north, conversed affably.	10
11	229	These general terms, in their scope, included human beings.	10
11	230	These terms were sometimes best translated as "meat animal" and sometimes "cattle" or, sometimes, simply "food".	10
11	231	The human being was regarded, by Kurii, as falling within the scope of application of such terms.	10
11	254	He had apparently regarded his terms as generous.	10
13	424	There was not a man in the hall but knew that his kinsman, a distant cousin, Finn Broadbelt, whom the Forkbeard had slain, had fallen in fair duel, and that wergild should not have been levied; and there was not a man in that hall but knew that the Blue Tooth had decreed, even were such justified, a...	10
18	302	That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co...	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	747	Their minds seldom think in terms of unwarranted challenges, psychological strategies, false claims".	10
15	101	But if you remain you must do so on my terms".	10
26	527	A beauty like Vella on Gor had little choice but to relate to men, and, of course, she a slave, on their terms.	10
26	1210	Priest-Kings, of course, who are accustomed to think directly in terms of realities and consequences, not words, had not permitted this same insane duplicity to be practiced upon their gullibility.	10

Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	356	No woman, even one who was free, would be permitted to relate to him save on his terms, and on his terms alone.	10
4	1079	Tonight I had run, belled, both quarry and prize, in a cruel game of barbarian men; insolent, I had been thrown to masters, who had impressed their dominance upon me; no longer had I doubt of their dominance, or of my complete subordination to their will; my master had, later, permitted me to run if...	10
7	355	He was the sort of man who would set his terms for a woman, even a free woman.	10
7	358	He would enter into no relationship except on his own terms.	10
7	359	His terms were simple, that the woman be yielded to him, totally, that she be as much his, and as helplessly, though by her own free will, as any slave girl on whom he might choose to fix his collar.	10
7	361	No woman who failed to meet these understood, publicized and well-known terms would be acceptable.	10
7	366	To have such a man as Clitus Vitellius I would have accepted his terms.	10
7	368	Surely it is better to have a true man on any terms than to have half a man, or no man at all.	10
9	208	"It is not my fault," I said, "if men see me in terms of the pleasure I can give them".	10
19	111	I was aware of what I was doing, and yet it seemed as though I behaved in terms of some prearranged pattern.	10
27	518	You were one of those women who is so feminine and attractive that a man finds it difficult to think of you in terms other than jealous ownership.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	751	A free woman's sexuality may generally be thought of in terms of degrees of inertness, or coolness; a slave girl's sexuality, on the other hand, may generally be thought of in terms of degrees of responsive passion, or heat.	10
25	109	Distance he tends to measure in terms of sleeps.	10
31	264	"You must not think of us in terms of our bloody past".	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	95	A woman who pleases men, and pleases them on their own terms, would, on Earth, be a startling rarity, an incredibly unusual treasure.	10
2	97	On Gor a readiness to please men, and an intention to do so, and on their own terms, is expected in any girl one buys.	10
2	99	Eventually, of course a woman learns that to please a man on his own terms is the only thing that can, ultimately, fulfill her own deepest needs, those of the owned, submitting love slave.	10
20	67	Naturally there had been on the raft, besides the girls, a chest of riches for Tende, riches which, according to the askaris, with whom Ayari took pains to be on good terms, would include such things as bolts of cloth, jewelries, cosmetics, coins, and perfumes.	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.	10
53	109	Think not only in terms of crass profit, my friend, of the bounties there to hunters and trappers, to traders and settlers, to planters and physicians, but to all men who wish to understand, who wish to know, who wish to unveil hidden secrets and penetrate hitherto unsolved mysteries.	10

Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	202	In our short conversations it became clear to me that you are one who thinks not in terms of words but in terms of things and realities.	10
1	204	"Many thousands of individuals think in terms of the world, its nature and promise," I said, "not in terms of slogans and verbal formulas.	10
11	409	Perhaps it would be better to say that the Gorean tends to think more in terms of spheres of influence than he does in terms of imaginary lines on maps which may not reflect current historical realities.	10
1	898	It was they who would set their terms, and it was the men who would, if they wished to know them, comply with their wishes.	10
7	503	I had looked at her as might have a man of Earth, seeing her in terms of classifications and categories, and my conditioned expectations, discounting what did not seem congenial to these categories and expectations, refusing to see, or, at least, to understand, what was clearly, objectively, present...	10
7	504	I now saw her, however, not in terms of generalities and conditioned expectations but as what she was, startling though it might be to my Earth-trained mind, an incredibly aroused female at my feet.	10
7	826	They might interfere with the artificial constructions of neuteristic personhood, constructions in terms of which my conditioning required me to view her.	10
11	413	Another consequence of the Gorean's tendency to think of territory in terms more analogous to an area warmed or an area illuminated than an area laid out by surveyors once and for all time is that his territoriality tends to increase with nearness to his city or village.	10
16	46	He is generally too proud of his caste and it is too much a part of him for him to think in such terms.	10
27	133	To be sure, those are Gorean men and they may think in terms of ropes and collars.	10
32	300	"Do you think to tell me my direction, which is your direction? Do you want me to guide my life by your compass, one aligned with a foreign star, one alien to my own?" I think that on Gor I had learned to think in terms of realities and not words.	10
34	317	It seemed to me absurd to think of Miss Henderson in such terms.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	150	"You are the type of woman, sexually stimulating and curvaceous, desirable, whom Gorean men, rightly or wrongly, look upon in terms of the parameters of bondage, in terms of such things as their potential for yielding incredible gratification and service.	10
1	67	I knew, too, that no fixed military formation could meet the phalanx on its own terms and survive.	10
15	149	"I assumed that any who might search for the topaz would be likely to regard you in such terms," I said.	10
20	43	We are met now on different terms.	10
23	127	Similarly, as may be understood in terms of a simple simile, if one is holding an implement and it is struck with greater force it will be more difficult and tiring to return it to its original position than if it has not been struck heavily and has not been moved significantly.	10
27	94	"But what guarantee have I," I asked, "that you will abide by the terms of such a bargain?" "I give you my word," said he, "in it pledging my honor".	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	30	"Surely you would prefer for your master to see you in terms of desire and not in terms of discipline," said the standing girl.	10
2	51	"Yes," I said, "let us think of it in such terms".	10
4	213	He would not risk open battle, not even on even terms, with ships such as those of the Voskjard.	10
19	953	Perhaps she is shy, virginal and unmated; she senses the boys she knows are callow and cannot satisfy her; only in her dreams has she awakened to the casual, possessive hands of a master upon her, who will see to it, she knows, that she will, willing or not, well slake his lusts; or perhaps she is o...	10

Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	327	"It might interest you to know that, from their point of view, they commonly regard humans as subrational, as an inferior species, and, indeed, one they commonly think of in terms little other than of food".	10
1	1132	The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe...	10
8	1041	Perhaps she had never even thought of herself in such elemental terms.	10
13	1452	"Another way of drawing the distinction is in terms of 'falarina' and 'profalarina.	10
13	1466	"In Gorean, as not in English," I said, "the usual way, however, of drawing the distinction is in terms of 'glana' and 'falarina.	10
13	1555	"But the main thing, in my opinion," I said, "is the psychological effect on the woman, the bringing home to her, in clear, forcible and undeniable terms, the reality of her situation, that she is helpless, that she is at his mercy, that she, regardless of her will, is now his to do with as he pleas...	10
17	634	Such folk commonly see things in terms of women, gold and power.	10
17	641	"You had best begin to think of yourself in such terms," I said.	10

Book 18. (17 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	334	The purpose of this custom seems to be to encourage the young man, from the very beginning, to think of himself in terms of the gallantry and generosity of the warrior.	10
9	92	"How strange it is to think of myself in such terms," she mused.	10
9	93	"What terms?" I asked.	10
9	231	Tributes, in part, are levied in terms of them, along with gold and Sa-Tarna grain.	10
11	29	"I was thinking more in terms of a red slave," said Cuwignaka.	10
11	53	"But," said Cuwignaka, "I was thinking not so much in terms of any red slave, as of some red slave".	10
11	121	I shall not, therefore, attempt to reduce it to simple terms or translate it into simplistic concepts.	10
14	566	"But only on my own terms," she said, "never as what I am now, a slave".	10
15	110	"The terms of the exchange were yours," said Canka.	10
18	111	If they do not come to terms, then you remain Grunt's.	10
18	112	If they do come to terms, then you simply have a new master, whom you must then serve completely and with total perfection".	10
25	117	He did think of Cuwignaka, for the most part, as though he were a woman, and he would think of me, naturally enough, in terms of my collar.	10
28	273	If it is not understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish.	10
28	274	Properly understood, on the other hand, his world is plausible, in its terms, as is yours.	10
33	211	"No strong man accepts a woman on any other terms," she said.	10
44	374	But the Yellow Knife would not be likely to think in such terms, at least not immediately.	10
44	598	"You must think not only in terms of numbers, Iwoso," I said, "but fire power, as well".	10

Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	42	"Do not see such a woman merely in terms of such predictable and luscious commonalities," said the first man.	10
6	513	I had not even been given categories in terms of which I might understand it.	10
17	124	"Do not dare to see me in terms of such a denominator," she said.	10
18	81	"Does Lady Sheila accept my terms?" he asked.	10
20	131	How scandalized I was to hear these things! I was not used to hearing myself spoken about in terms of the graphic simplicities often applied to slaves.	10
20	137	Thinking of myself in those terms made me feel weak, vulnerable and excited.	10
24	105	Too, of course, I was shorn and being considered in terms of utilization in the mills.	10
29	190	One does not usually think in terms of such things where free women are concerned.	10
31	514	Though he had not spoken to me, save to summon me imperiously to him, I had little doubt that he was still thinking of me in terms of Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus.	10
36	894	Whereas the man doubtless thinks in terms of the collar, in order to take no chances with the dangerous, lovely little beast, and to have completely what he wants of her, he may not always fully understand that her mastering is also that for which she in her heart longs.	10

Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	790	"On what terms?" he asked.	10
1	791	"Your terms, Master," she said, "only as a total slave".	10
2	1110	"You are thinking, then, in terms of a carefully planned robbery?" "Not really," said Samos.	10
2	1151	"Yes," he said, "and the terms of the orders are unmistakable".	10
3	38	"On whose terms?" I asked.	10
3	43	"Then I am sure we will get on splendidly—on my terms," she said.	10
6	119	"Slave!" said the free woman, coldly, imperiously, obviously addressing the Brigella, and in no uncertain terms.	10
8	24	It is in the modality of slavery, on the terms of masters, that females historically have sought, and sometimes have been granted, at least provisionally, their survival.	10
10	472	"It seems then that the test for prettiness is the enhancement of your appearance, and this is understood in terms of increasing your attractiveness".	10
18	499	The principle involved is that certain surfaces are reflected in such a way that the observer is led to misinterpret his visual data; for example, he is led to take a reflected surface, a mirrored surface, in a given location, for an actual or real surface in a different location; he normally does n...	10

Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	218	Others, like the one referred to by the proprietor, encourage the young man to see the female in terms of her most basic and radical meaning, in the terms of her deepest and true nature, that nature which is most biologically fundamental to her, that nature which is that of the inestimable prize, th...	10
5	229	It covers almost everything, with seeming modesty, but in such a way, that it is likely to lead a man to think in terms of removing it.	10
15	327	"I am sure they would agree to almost any terms, offering suitable inducements for withdrawal, guarantees of safety for yourself and your troops, and such, in order to regain Torcadino".	10
21	160	"Why would one think of her in the terms of a ubara?" I asked.	10
25	1290	Whereas the slave may not commonly address the master in terms other than 'Master' or 'my Master', lapses subject to discipline, and whereas she will usually refer to him simply as 'my master' or 'the master' when speaking with others, lapses also subject to discipline, there are times, of course, w...	10
25	2231	And this will remain true, always, in its own place, and in its own terms, regardless of the lies taught children, the restriction of educational posts to adherents, the pervasive propaganda, the selective allocation of research grants, the denial of freedoms and the suppression of alternative views...	10
25	2350	One might think then in terms of the possible transmission of secret information, or, perhaps more likely, of the enterprise of the assassin, the covert business of unsheathed daggers.	10
26	221	They would be thinking, I expected, only in terms of the tunnel and its walls.	10
27	76	How could she forgive them that? Slavers, of course, think in terms of beauty, for they must sell these women.	10
29	134	He enjoyed being on good terms with fellows he was preparing to fight to the death.	10

Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	70	You are going to be here, and live on its terms, and exactly so, my modern woman, my hateful little charmer, for the rest of your life".	10
5	56	Others, which made sense to me, seemed to think in terms of the individual woman.	10
5	255	Accordingly, it seems it did not even occur to them to see me, as Teibar had, in terms of guilt, crime and villainy, nor, in hatred, to make me some sort of helpless proxy, something fit to be punished for the wrongs which had been visited upon the men of my world.	10
6	619	It need not be simply construed in terms of such things as keeping us in a given place, or together, say, for purposes of custodial neatness, or rendering escape impossible, or discouraging thoughts of it, as if such thoughts needed discouraging, or reminding us that we were slaves, or disciplining ...	10
8	289	I awaited the command to lift my head, to view my master, to greet him with joy, to prove to him that I was no longer a hated "modern woman," no longer a spoiled, pampered woman of a sick, antibiological world, that I was now only his, a female slave, vulnerable and exposed in the fullness of her wo...	10
9	266	In both terms, 'glana' and 'profalarina', incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, states to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of "metaglana" or "falarina".	10
9	268	Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are 'white silk' and 'red silk', for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively.	10
10	443	My master, I noted, did not seem to be personally interested in my virginity, only in what it might mean to him in terms of its possible commercial value.	10
11	201	To be sure, both terms are in a sense reductive misnomers, for in this form of dance, as in other forms of dance, the dancer dances with her entire body and beauty.	10
15	58	How bold she was, I thought, to have used our master's name in that fashion, speaking it unnecessarily, not referring to him in terms such as "the master" or "our master".	10
17	256	It was as though I had suddenly found myself marvelously transported to the past, and one in which I must helplessly meet its conditions, and obey it, and on its own terms, and perfectly, not mine.	10
29	90	"And meat, much more meat!" He had been very angry, almost from the moment these five fellows had appeared, coming through the trees, for they had not simply completed the transaction, according to the terms which, I took it, had been previously agreed upon, but, it seems, had chosen to have, or app...	10

Book 23. (18 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	544	Cosians would see you, you hoped, not in terms of politics, but merely in terms of loot.	10
2	326	"It is interesting that you should think immediately in such terms," I said.	10
3	33	The prices, of course, were in terms of copper tarsks.	10
8	704	It is useful to encourage the woman to think of herself in terms of vitality and appetition.	10
8	705	A tactic in this procedure to help her become aware of herself as a sexual creature is to describe her to herself in terms she may have dreaded aforetimes, to use words to her which she may have been conditioned to avoid, and find offensive, and so on.	10
8	707	She must cease to think of herself in terms of convention and fiction, and be freed to think of herself as an honest, biological reality, a natural, vital, needful, awakened woman.	10
10	95	And the fellows from Cos itself, and from Tyros, and their close allies, were surely by now, if they had not been before, hardened veterans, men unlikely to be swayed by the self-serving appeals of beautiful women, men accustomed to seeing such women, of whatever city, in terms of the collar and cha...	10
10	129	Too, besides their anger, these men were Goreans, and many of them regarded women as fit and natural slaves, and considered them in terms of the perfection of the collar.	10
12	187	"My terms agreed to," she said, "I received extremely specific instructions.	10
14	127	"Surely terms will be sought," she said.	10
15	546	You wanted to be seen in terms of something well worth hunting and capturing.	10
18	119	"I shall treat for terms".	10
18	130	"Aemilianus asks terms!" called the officer, up to the wall.	10
18	141	"Terms!" called the officer.	10
18	142	"We ask terms!" The figure on the height of the wall lifted his hand, a small gesture.	10
19	40	Dietrich of Tarnburg, for example, though one often thinks of him in terms of innovations such as the oblique advance and the use of siege equipment in the field, is also, in my opinion, based on my studies of his campaigns, for example, in the commentaries of Minicius and the "Diaries," which some ...	10
20	93	"My word is sacred to me," said Surilius, "but so, too, are the terms of my word, and they require only that I do not permit you to fall, when you yourself could not avoid it, into the hands of Cosians.	10
21	585	And so spread her knees, to obey, to please, to plead, to proffer, and in doing so thereby comprehended the nature of the bondage in terms of which she was to be seen.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	112	"Many folks," I said, "think of Ar not in terms of her musicians, her poets, and such, but in terms of administrators, engineers and soldiers".	10
46	368	She would probably think in terms of a more feminine hiding place, a smaller, more-closed-in, more-sheltered, safer-seeming place, a closet, a cabinet, a trunk, a box, a cage, a wagon, a sack, such places, or else to think in terms of putting herself where it might seem to her that she belonged in a...	10
1	873	It is easy to speculate, in general terms, on such latencies having been selected for in a variety of ways, for example, in noting their affinity with movements of love and luring, their value in displaying the female, their capacity to stimulate the male, their utility in pleasing and placating men...	10
26	191	Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values i...	10
37	141	But, of course, it must be understood that the affixing of the collar, the emplacement of the kef, and such, are not simply to be understood in terms of enhancing attractiveness, though, clearly, that is one of their intents and consequences.	10
46	367	But, too, I supposed, it might not have occurred to them, as it had to me, that Ina, a lovely female, would not be likely to think in terms of such a place.	10

Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	92	"You do not think the Priest-Kings are on intimate terms with the Initiates, do you?" "Would you wish to be on intimate terms with an Initiate?" I asked.	10
12	504	"He keeps me from myself!" "He sees you in terms of one ideal," I said, "while it is actually another, one more profound, which you manifest".	10
16	41	But still I would not have cared to meet him, or such a fellow, in earnest, each of us armed only in such terms.	10
17	24	His fundamental metaphor in terms of which he would defend himself from the glory and mystery of the world is neither the machine nor the die.	10
17	410	Presumably most folks would think, if at all about these matters, in terms of a false bottom, or back, or something, but, as you saw, such considerations would have been immediately dismissed as the construction of the palanquin made them impractical, for example, its openness, and its bottom being ...	10
19	689	"Appanius and Milo must be on intimate terms," I said.	10

Book 26. (12 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	155	But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to ...	10
14	899	You will be seen, however, as fetchingly exciting, and doubtless men will see you in terms more of your potential, than your present, will see you in terms of what they can do with you and make of you".	10
6	152	How I would have been prepared to accept, and relish, eagerly, gratefully, the harsh terms which he might decree! And here, too, it seemed, in this place, new revelations had come to me of my nature.	10
7	575	I had been reminded, clearly, in no uncertain terms, of what I was.	10
9	188	I had been told "No," in no uncertain terms.	10
9	227	And some, perhaps, might be disconcerted to find that they now actually possessed an objective value, and one exceeding, on the same terms, and in the same dimension, at least some of those whom they had formerly regarded with such contempt.	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	1484	I was thinking in terms of the high slave, one of great value, one who might even expect sandals, to say nothing of costly, if revealing, silks, and perhaps even a golden collar.	10
12	659	'Nonetheless,' said he, the beast, 'we shall think in terms of a finite amount.	10
12	712	It is probably because one usually thinks of such responses, for whatever reason, in terms of "Yes" and "No," rather than of "No" and "Yes".	10
18	64	A common recreation for a tarnsman, for example, particularly when not on duty, not on maneuvers or campaign, is to steal women from a "fair city," that is, one at war with, or on poor terms with, his own city.	10
24	344	Women, from the point of view of the men of Treve, and from the point of view of most of the men on this world, as I understand it, are to be seen in terms of other purposes.	10

Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	566	Theirs is not a clock-ridden culture; on Gor life tends to be genially paced, regulated more by the season of the year and the position of the sun; it is not conceived of in terms of metaphors drawn from factories, in material terms, in terms of input and output, in terms of units of product process...	10
8	95	Here, on this world, she feared that men were the masters and would simply, as they wished, have their way with women, doing as they pleased with them, as is the wont of masters; she feared that everything would be on their terms, on the terms of the men, on the terms of the masters, fully, precisel...	10
4	521	I thought of you with only one purpose in mind, the only purpose in terms of which you could possibly be of any value.	10
10	78	She knew how she would have been, on any terms he might have set, helplessly his.	10
11	996	"In its way, too, it is a joke on Jeffrey's part, for he has had to put up with her for several months, rather on her terms.	10
17	161	Her practical age now, in terms of biology, physiology and such, was, say, eighteen, and that might have been the actual chronological age of the lad.	10
20	94	Ellen wondered if the coffle had been ordered in terms of beauty, at least as some men saw these things.	10
24	265	How different from Earth! They refuse to be confused, tricked, crippled, tamed, enfeebled! They think in terms of things and realities, not words.	10
26	1322	And, too, is the slave not often ambushed by love? Is her path not beset with its thousand snares? Is she not often trapped, a helpless possession, within the nets of her needs? She lives with a man on terms of obedience and intimacy.	10
27	2419	It is said that once one has tasted a slave, one finds it difficult to think again in terms of free women.	10

Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	727	He saw her instantly, doubtless as the Priest-Kings had intended, in terms of the brand and collar, in terms of shackles and the whip, in terms of the auction block and cage.	10
1	1253	How could it even occur to her that Gorean men would look upon such as she and see her not in terms of her breeding, education, position, and background but in terms of the slave tunic and chain, in terms of the whip and collar? Did she not know that such as she were put barefoot and naked on the sa...	10
80	174	How frightful if she were to be thought of in terms of it, her body, that embarrassing, troubling thing so appropriately concealed, rather than, say, in terms of her mind and personhood, or, perhaps, her clear, fine features, if her veil were to become disarranged, inadvertently.	10
1	522	They were, in short, for whatever reasons, taught to suspect and deny their sexuality, and see it, if at all, in terms of guilt and fear.	10
1	626	On her rare dates she would remain aloof and remind her companions, when necessary, in quite clear terms, to their chagrin, of her dignities and their correspondent duties.	10
1	731	She was the sort of woman a man would not accept, except upon the terms of absolute and complete ownership.	10
2	256	He would see her in terms of blood-stirring, virile claimancies, and she would find herself weak and helpless before him, as no more than a begging, pathetic slave.	10
4	13	Accordingly, various Kurii will be herein referred to in terms hopefully intelligible to, or at least pronounceable by, readers unfamiliar with Kur.	10
5	148	"But we are thinking in terms of silver, I trust".	10
36	65	"And so, too, must the archer, overmatched, if unable to deal with a mighty foe on that foe's own ground and terms".	10
80	292	One might think in terms of a slave bracelet or a slave anklet, or such, but the collar is almost universally preferred, possibly because of the prominence of its mounting, its unmistakable visibility, its way of clarifying the nature of its wearer, as a collared animal, and its beauty.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	28	I might also mention that certain measures, of, say, length and weight, and such, will be approximated in English, in terms of pounds, yards, inches, and such, rather than in terms of stones, paces, horts, and such.	10
8	269	It had to be met on its own terms, with courage, and steel.	10
12	302	The term is Gorean, but, like a great many terms in Gorean, not surprisingly, given the voyages of acquisition, it is taken from another language, in this case, English.	10
16	39	As is often the case there is no really satisfactory correspondences between certain Gorean terms and English.	10
16	155	Too, they must be taught to fight and strike in pairs, or more, never to engage, if possible, on equal terms.	10
17	80	But presumably such a cavalry as we engaged, massive, overconfident, and clumsy, would not think in terms of reserves, certainly not for turning the tides of battle.	10
22	268	There are few things which so convince a woman that she is a slave, as to hear her value candidly discussed, in terms of prices, markets, and such.	10
26	145	I wondered sometimes if the Priest-Kings, who think in terms of generations, and even millennia, had selected us for one another, or had bred us for one another.	10
27	146	I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free than merely not yet collared, would be though...	10
28	282	One supposes the master's victimization of his property will eventually subside, one certainly hopes so, when he no longer sees her as a scion of, and in terms of, hated foes, but comes to understand that she is no longer a proud, exalted free woman of the enemy toward whom a sword may be legitimate...	10
29	91	She, I fear, had not yet accustomed herself to the beauties of a natural world, but still thought in terms of another world, a grayer world, a more tragic world, a world in which, incredibly, pollutants and poisons were routinely discharged into the atmosphere, into the very air its creatures, large...	10
32	46	One of the Pani, of the entourage of Lord Okimoto, advanced before the platform and addressed the assembled, massed pairs, reiterating the terms of the contest, that each pair would do battle to the death, and the survivor would receive a tarn disk of gold.	10

Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1197	They see us in terms of desire and pleasure, in terms of love, service, and passion, not in terms of contempt, jealously, and reproach.	10
3	322	It seemed obvious that such an ensuance could be explained, if at all, only in terms of a sky ship, and, such, if it existed, would presumably emanate from the Sardar, allegedly the abode of Priest-Kings.	10
9	144	He of the Pani, in any event, whether offered terms or not, had obviously refused to surrender the weapons in his charge, preferring rather to die in their defense.	10
12	496	"What occurred here? Who was about? How did it happen? Speak, female, speak, woman!" I was startled that he has spoken to her in terms of her sex, simply, regardless of her condition, that she was so obviously bond.	10
23	147	"Men will soon think in terms of another," I said.	10
25	64	Of what interest might such caged beasts be to anyone? But men looked upon them and saw them differently, in terms of the uses of slaves.	10
36	1	The Warehouse; The Encounter with Cineas, the Agent of Tyrtaios; The Gift of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, Tarnsman It was now four days following the docking of the Pani ship, the River Dragon, and the stranger and I, invited by Captain Nakamura and the harbor master, Demetrion, who now seemed on s...	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	430	I was derived from a class of women who did not think in terms of love, but in terms of advancement, in terms of practicality, in terms of position, station, prospects, power, and wealth.	10
8	1885	So, if Astrinax was not thinking in terms of the towers, and was not thinking, at least at present, in terms of the taverns or brothels, in what terms might he be thinking? "You are a barbarian are you not?" asked Astrinax.	10
8	135	The Gorean thinks generally in terms of metal, copper, silver, and gold, something obdurate and solid, which can be handled, split, quartered, shaved, and weighed, or else in terms of actual goods.	10
7	354	These suspicions and promptings, such thoughts, were not only incompatible with my dignity and self-respect, but incompatible with the conventions and proprieties in terms of which my life was to be managed.	10
7	389	"You think of punishment," said one of the instructresses, "in terms of the switch, the whip, close chains, the denial of clothing, the affixing of a collar with points, a reduction in rations, being sent naked into the streets, being denied speech, being put in the modality of the she-tarsk, such t...	10
8	1826	It is in terms of those that one numbers her amongst the "high cities".	10
8	1872	I gathered Astrinax was not thinking in terms of tower slaves.	10
9	208	"If you are interested in her attractiveness to men," he said, "for example, you might wish to give her to one or another, for an evening, or such, for some purpose of yours, you might think in terms of a camisk, a ta-teera, a bit of rep-cloth, such things".	10
18	423	To be sure, at the troughs, and in the Sul Market, I had heard more than one woman's slave excoriate her Mistress, in the most detailed and vivid terms.	10
42	16	I did not understand the nature of these excursions, but I supposed they might be explicable in terms as obvious as escaping the tedium of the Cave, a zest for movement or fresh air, and perhaps even some light hunting.	10
45	28	I thought of time in terms of the bars, and not chronometers.	10
45	35	Grendel, of course, would be thinking in terms of the Gorean chronometer.	10
45	229	What might it mean? Is it a warning, a criticism, that she is behaving too much like a free woman, who would expect to be thanked? Is it a trick? Is he thinking of her in terms of close chains, or the slave whip? Is he thinking of selling her? Has she already been sold, or given away? "Master," I sa...	10
46	61	It was difficult to tell whether these impositions and restrictions were rationally justified in terms of intelligence available to Agamemnon and his inner circle or were the fruit of unproductive suspicions carried to the pitch of self-destructive madness.	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
54	210	They will have her, and keep her, on their terms, on their terms alone, on the terms of the master, as their rightless, helpless slave.	10
8	577	Some men reckon wealth in terms of tarn disks, others kaiila, others bosk, and some in terms of slaves.	10
3	17	There are many things I have never understood, and how ignorant and stupid seem the ideologues, the tyrants, and fools, who see complexity in terms of conditioned, programmed simplicities.	10
4	223	Intelligence is a major criterion in terms of which we select slaves.	10
8	52	The slaves, doubtless, would be accounted for, marked off, in terms of their numbers, when put aboard.	10
9	247	Then, as might be expected, free women denounce the tunic as a shameful garment, and attempt, in terms of it, to shame its occupant.	10
10	9	In a way he was far less dangerous to his men than an idealist or fanatic, who would sacrifice armies and continents to pursue a face in the clouds, a goal he does not even understand, an end which, if achieved, would betray the dreams in terms of which it was sought.	10
10	26	Did he believe me? How did he understand me? I feared he saw me in terms of himself, as one might look into a dark glass.	10
21	385	"We permitted it to save face," said Tyrtaios, "pretending to accept the matter on the leader's vaunted terms, as a test of our pride, and probity".	10
29	71	I recognized the large, strong, fierce women as Panther Women, or, as the men will have it, Panther Girls, for they seem to think of all women in terms of the collar, either presently or in the future.	10
37	134	Tula, Mila, and I stood near our burdens, frightened, mere women, feminine women, so unlike the mighty Panther Women, so unlike that we could be to them as naught but despised slaves, women of the sort which men immediately think of in terms of a brand and tunic, women of the sort which men think li...	10
38	113	I thought of another world, one on which beauty was seldom for sale, except on its own terms.	10
50	468	Might I not make my companioning, if I were interested in such, a prize in a game many might play, and from which, at my whim, I might withdraw? Might I not sell myself, on my own terms, as I saw fit, to the highest bidder, for station, and wealth? But there is no hurry in such matters.	10
52	30	The order of marshaling was a common one, in which a slave line is organized in terms of height, in descending order.	10

Book 33. (22 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	177	Men see land differently, the merchant in terms of profitability, the sage in terms of quietude, the poet in terms of mood, the painter in terms of beauty, the peasant in terms of home, in terms of soil, fertility, tillability, and yield.	10
1	181	It sees it in terms of what might be done, and not done, and how easily, sees it in terms of movement, columns, the marshaling of men, the arrangement of troops, the order of battle, in terms of passage, heights, time, concealment, attack, marches, and tactics.	10
20	465	I think she still thought of Pertinax in the terms of Gregory White, a Gregory White who, in a sense, no longer existed, at least in the terms in which she thought of him, a Gregory White who had been shy, diffident, insecure, weak, manageable, pathetic, reduced, and confused, the victim of a pathol...	10
30	110	For example, a daimyo's taxation levied on his subject villages, as noted earlier, was usually done in terms of rice, or, if the village was a fishing village, in terms of dried fish, or such.	10
31	177	As I have suggested, most exchange in the islands is done not in terms of coins, or notes, from one establishment or another on some Street of Coins, but in kind, in terms of rice, millet, fish, cloth, and such.	10
7	313	"It was desired that there would be a hold over you," said Lord Nishida, "a hold in terms of which your service and loyalty might be assured".	10
9	118	It had been hoped that its entry into the battle, aside from what might be its contribution in terms of fire power, might induce consternation into the masses of a largely ignorant and superstitious enemy.	10
9	119	Would not the arrival of such monsters most easily be understood in terms of preternatural agencies? Indeed, Lord Temmu, shortly after the great ship of Tersites had been wharfed below the holding, had sowed the seeds of such alarms by means of spies, spreading rumors of terrifying winged beasts, de...	10
11	199	The point at the time, at least in terms of strategy, was to conceal the cavalry until its appearance, presumably at the turning point of a crucial battle, might have a devastating psychological effect on a startled, superstitious enemy, and turn the tide in favor of the house of Temmu.	10
12	23	She is well aware that she is an object, a commodity, and that her value is as quantifiable, objectively, given market conditions and buyers, as that of other objects, or commodities, for example, in terms of coins, tarsks, sa-tarna, rice, or such.	10
12	447	I do not think it was very long as the sand clock, grain by grain, or the water clock, drop by drop, would have it, but, to me, prostrate and chained, my body fouled, and recoiling, shuddering, struck again and again, it was long enough, a time measured in the clock of pain, counted in terms of blow...	10
19	7	Sometimes, too, the tax is supplied in terms of men, serving as porters, workers, and Ashigaru.	10
30	75	The common means of exchange were in terms of commodities, millet, rice, silk, coarser cloth, and such.	10
30	109	It was hard to tell, however, for, as I have suggested, most exchange was done in terms of commodities.	10
30	470	That was to be the instrument in terms of which she would be afflicted, apparently to whatever degree Tajima might wish.	10
30	705	Some are likely to be unwilling recruits, in effect, impressed from their villages for various terms of service.	10
35	35	On continental Gor temporary camps are usually laid out in squares, moated and palisaded if possible, with blockhouses at the corners and two gates, and a reticulation of straight streets, in terms of which the units are ordered.	10
39	74	"That is apparently not the criterion in terms of which Nodachi selects his students," I said.	10
42	329	He was endeavoring, as so many others, trusting innocents unaware of what was being done to them, to fulfill alien prescriptions, to fulfill pathological stereotypes, engineered stereotypes in terms of which the 'true male' was to be defined, a male without maleness.	10
53	52	"Men often live in terms of symbols and gestures".	10
54	216	Now, however, the negotiations, the terms for surrender, the supposed guarantees of safety for the garrison, and such, had been concluded.	10
61	185	I am sure the terms were neither congenial to Lord Yamada nor to Lord Temmu.	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	429	I had only been put in handcuffs! I recalled that the gross boor in the office had dared to use expressions like "pot girl" and "kettle-and-mat girl" of me, whatever those terms might mean.	10
6	345	Indeed, one of the criteria in terms of which you were selected is high intelligence.	10
6	482	How our clothing expresses us, and how we understand ourselves in its terms, and now we had not chosen our clothing, but others had done so.	10
6	483	What would this new clothing do to us? How, in the tunic of a slave, can one be other than a slave? Do we not become congruent with our clothing? Do we not fit ourselves to our clothing? Do we not learn our self-image from our clothing? Do we not think of ourselves in terms of our clothing? Do we no...	10
8	229	Tributes are often levied in terms of female slaves, and so on.	10
13	6	Common governance on Gor is in terms of Administrators or Ubars.	10
40	189	Indeed, much transaction amongst the lower castes was done in terms of barter.	10
40	191	Even amongst the lower orders of the high castes some of the Builders and Scribes might see a year's wages in terms of a handful of silver tarsks.	10
42	178	"The message was from Lord Arcesilaus, with whom we are on excellent terms".	10
49	253	"The terms of my principal—," said Decius Albus.	10
50	32	Kurik, my master, had arranged the terms of the rental, and the discretion of the landlord.	10
52	93	But who would notice? "My principal, in this business, Surtak, high Kur," said Drusus, "informs Lord Grendel that his terms, expressed in the proposal recently tendered to Decius Albus, by Tenrik of Siba, in the House of a Hundred Corridors, are accepted".	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	The distinction between barbarian and nonbarbarian, thusly, is commonly drawn in terms of language.	10
12	8	We see ourselves and understand ourselves in terms of that relationship, just as we are so seen and so understood by free men.	10
13	25	She is reminded, in no uncertain terms, that she is a slave, and at the mercy of the free.	10
14	80	Thus I had been pleased to express my doubt of that in no uncertain terms.	10
33	657	By its means I obtained purchase, something anchored in terms of which I could press down and lift myself, inch by inch, upward, free of the grip of the sand.	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	114	In Gorean it would not be a contradiction in terms, or such, to speak of a public-spirited tyrannos, a good tyrannos, and so on.	10
31	50	"They called for no terms and you proposed none," said Clitus.	10
33	101	"Your terms are harrowing and cruel," he said.	10
53	205	"Terms!" I called.	10
53	206	"Terms!" Laughter drifted across the water to us.	10