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Trade

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	53	In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W...	10
11	22	The caravan was secured, and in a few hours trade would begin.	10

Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	189	In the rush of working, in the interminable, demanding jungle of detail required in my trade, the memory of Cabot was forced from my mind.	10
3	44	He wore the short, tattered sleeveless robe of his trade, with its leather back and shoulders.	10
6	5	Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ...	10
21	100	Perhaps it is merely a device for merchants who must have some such means for tracing runaway slaves, which would otherwise constitute a costly hazard to their trade.	10
21	150	What could I tell this merchant, this specialist in the traffic of flesh, this businessman who stood well within the ancient traditions and practices of his trade? Could I tell him that I did not wish the girl to be hurt? He would have thought me a mad man.	10
21	205	Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful.	10
23	105	Not only slaves of the city raised the banner of defiance but men of low caste, whose brothers or friends had been sent to the mines or used in the Amusements, now dared at last to seize the instruments of their trade and turn on guardsmen and soldiers.	10
24	85	His dour personality, formed over the anvils and forges of his trade, did not take lightly to the enormity of what I had said.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	39	And, as might be expected, members of the Caste of Scribes gather here to enter into dispute and examine and trade manuscripts.	10
1	76	Accordingly, the pirates and outlaws who beset the trade routes to ambush and attack the caravans on the way to the fair, if successful, often have more than inanimate metals and cloths to reward their vicious labors.	10
8	110	Trade routes did not lead to the city and those who entered its territory did not often return.	10

Book 4. (9 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	35	The Turians, on the other hand, take in trade for their goods—obtained by manufacture or trade with other cities—principally the horn and hide of the bosk, which naturally the Wagon Peoples, who live on the bosk, have in plenty.	10
3	97	"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples".	10
7	155	I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...	10
8	30	There were perhaps negotiations to be conducted, perhaps having to do with what were called the games of Love War, or perhaps having to do with trade.	10
8	31	I had learned, to my surprise, that trade did occasionally take place with Turia.	10
8	39	It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city.	10
16	29	Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade...	10
24	33	Yet it seemed to me true, for Turia was the main avenue of contact between the Wagon Peoples and the other cities of Gor, the gate through which trade goods flowed to the wilderness of grasses that was the land of the riders of the kaiila and the herders of bosk.	10
27	2	Kutaituchik avenged, Kamchak was no longer interested in Turia, though he wished the city to be restored, perhaps in order that the Wagon Peoples might have a valuable trade outlet whereby they could manage, if the caravan raids turned out poorly, to barter hides and horn for the goods of civilizati...	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	136	Thentis does not trade the beans for black wine.	10
9	21	Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...	10
14	134	I knew the House of Portus was the greatest remaining rival to the House of Cernus, fighting it for the control of the slave trade in Ar.	10
14	136	Several minor houses had shut down; there were others, but small houses, scrabbling for the thirty percent of the trade still left them.	10
15	421	"I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! Caste Sanctuary! Caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's Scribe Two.	10
16	1	The Tarn Less than a month following the downfall of the House of Portus, Cernus had become the undisputed master of the slave trade in Ar.	10
19	65	From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ...	10

Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	63	The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc...	10
1	106	The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city.	10
3	179	"We might trade for such things," said Ho-Hak.	10
4	138	"For purposes of trade?" I asked.	10
10	229	Doubtless many of them did not much care to ply an honest trade.	10
11	440	"Consider our trade," said Samos.	10
11	460	And who knew what trading ships might make their way to Port Kar, if they thought her a fair and honest city? The estimate of Samos, that such a gesture on Port Kar's part might eventually result in a trebling of her trade, seemed to me possibly conservative.	10
11	573	"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent...	10
15	116	Meanwhile, while I had been plying the trade of pirate, the military and political ventures of the Council itself, within the city, had proceeded well.	10

Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	94	It lay on the southern plains of Gor, far below the equator, the hub of an intricate pattern of trade routes.	10
12	435	The Merchants have, in the past few years, on certain trade routes, between Ar and Ko-ro-ba, and between Tor and Ar, established palisaded compounds, defensible stockades.	10
13	101	The Merchants of Teletus, controlling the city, would demand it of her, fearing the effects of the possible displeasure of the Priest-Kings on their trade.	10
13	744	Seldom did Vosk pirates ply their trade where the Vosk bordered the regions of Ar.	10
15	363	I recognized them, both from the streets of Ko-ro-ba and from the merchants' stockade, on the trade route to Ar, where I and Lana had so abused Verna, she then being helplessly caged.	10

Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	157	"Did your trade go well?" inquired Rim.	10
2	283	"I will trade them for this female," said Arn, gesturing to Cara.	10
2	325	The permanency of the point, and its security, seems essential to the trade.	10
3	48	It is said, however, by some of the Merchants there, that this manner of caution and restriction, has to some extent diminished their position in the spheres of trade.	10
6	173	It permits her much wider trade perimeters than would otherwise be possible.	10
6	199	"It is not impossible," said Thurnock, "they are concerned with common trade, panther hides and sleen fur, and such".	10
6	228	We had brought with us a pack of trade goods, some gold.	10
6	392	"We have trade goods," I said.	10
6	475	I indicated that one of the girl's companions might remove four arrow points from the pack of trade goods.	10
6	585	In my absence some hunters and outlaws had brought sleen fur to trade.	10
6	920	"In the forests," she said, "you made me carry trade goods on my back.	10
12	7	I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo...	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	23	Initiates often used their influence and their gold, and pressures on trade and goods, to spread their beliefs and rituals.	10
2	64	The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing.	10
2	67	The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelry and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessels.	10
2	76	Trade to the south, of course, is largely in the furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish.	10
2	77	From the south, of course, the people of Kassau obtain the goods they trade northward to Torvaldsland, and, too, of course, civilized goods for themselves.	10
5	251	"If Ar were to produce debased coins," I said, "her trade would be reduced, if not ruined".	10
13	29	It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids.	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	44	They receive, as well, of course, other trade goods.	10
2	47	The animals are too precious for their trade value, and their hair and milk, to be often slaughtered for food.	10
2	81	Much of the city, of course, was organized to support the caravan trade.	10
5	37	Both sorts of stones were rare in the Tahari gem trade.	10
10	224	We are not on main trade routes".	10
10	263	"And this seems an obscure oasis, far from trade routes".	10
10	292	Trade will be disrupted, armed men will roam, strangers will be more suspect than normally.	10
13	60	Probably, other than his own men, only some few hundred know of it, primarily merchants high in the salt trade, and few of them would know its exact location.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	529	It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...	10
5	67	He could trade me or sell me, or even slay me upon a whim, should he wish.	10
9	372	Among such men I would not trade my womanhood for anything in the world.	10
10	45	They are useful in maintaining the security of trade.	10
10	55	The motivation of the hostilities was apparently mostly economic, having to do with trade monopolies sought by both cities in the territories bordering the Vosk.	10
10	57	Cos, and the other major maritime Ubarate, Tyros, on the other hand, had traditionally conducted trade, through overland merchant connections, with these territories.	10
13	363	"Did you truly think," he hissed, "we would take a profit of only a copper tarsk on you? Do you think us fools to buy a girl for twenty and sell her for twenty-one? Do you not think we know our trade, little slut?" I screamed for mercy.	10

Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	3	He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna.	10
4	453	Who would not cheerfully trade a dozen such fortunes to witness one such game.	10
6	683	I trade north of Ax Glacier for the furs of sleen, the pelts of leem and larts".	10
13	26	This is an important trade item in the north.	10
23	147	And I have mirrors, and beads and knives, and many other trade goods".	10
24	73	"Will you trade Bazi tea to the ice beasts?" I asked.	10
30	95	The assassins take in lads who are perhaps characterized by little but unusual swiftness, and cunning, and strength and skill, and perhaps a selfishness and greed, and, in time, transform this raw material into efficient, proud, merciless men, practitioners of a dark trade, men loyal to secret codes...	10
36	6	Perhaps eventually a hunter would take a trading trip south and take them with him, bound, to dispose of them in, say, Lydius, with his furs and other trade goods.	10
38	41	They were girls from the complex, some of whom had been free women, who would be taken south as trade goods.	10

Book 13. (19 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	1	We Stop to Trade; The Admissions of a Slave "Trade! Trade! Friends! Friends!" they called.	10
1	239	"It could mean the opening up of a considerable number of new markets, the enhancement of trade, the discovery of a valuable commercial avenue for the merchandise of the north and the products of the south".	10
1	487	It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta.	10
18	168	I was informed, through Msaliti, the Ubar speaking, that the greetings of Teletus were accepted, that his ubarate expressed similar greetings to those of the island, that his ubarate appreciated our interest in its future and that his wazir of trade would speak to me within the next ten days.	10
18	174	The envoy from Bazi, I noted, would receive an audience with the wazir of trade within five days.	10
18	211	Bila Huruma's wazir of trade will doubtless soon detect that I know little of the merchants or affairs of Teletus.	10
27	19	"We could use supplies, bush knives, and trade goods".	10
27	123	"I wonder what you would bring in trade," he mused.	10
27	124	"Do not trade me, Master," she begged.	10
27	131	I will so please you that in the morning you will not wish to trade me".	10
28	20	"Trade goods," said Kisu.	10
29	16	Kisu, with a knife, was cutting a length from the rough, red-dyed cloth, plaited and pounded, derived from the inner bark of the pod tree, which we had obtained in trade some days ago at the fishermen's village.	10
29	89	He then, from a sack brought from the canoe, threw her two strings of colored wooden beads, blue, and red and yellow, which we had obtained in trade from the fishing village earlier.	10
31	7	If that were known the bidding might be fierce upon her, the villagers being eager to capitalize on any dissatisfaction with her, hoping thus to acquire her as a cheap piece of trade goods, perhaps for transmittal into the interior.	10
31	27	"Trade," I called.	10
36	9	Once before, long ago, we had recovered evidence of what had seemed to be another mishap on the river, a chest or crate of trade goods.	10
37	1	We do not Trade Tende The chief, on his small stool, pointed at Tende.	10
39	9	"We can perhaps trade for fruit and vegetables and you can obtain information on he whom you seek, he called Shaba".	10
46	26	One of the little men then, with a heavy, rusted panga, probably obtained in trade long ago, walked up and down near them.	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	2	Venna has many small and fine shops, catering to the affluent trade of the well-to-do, who patronize the baths and public villas of the area.	10
22	49	They are tenacious in their trade.	10
23	74	Such a small thing, in its way, bespoke the intimacy of the trade relations between Vonda and Cos.	10
32	194	And they will not have it otherwise; a contented slave would not trade her collar for a kingdom.	10

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	44	He had intended to trade with Lara, a member of the Salerian Confederation.	10
7	126	"Doubtless they also harry the trade routes circumventing the delta of the Vosk?" I asked.	10
10	244	Too, there is no practical trade of which I am the Mistress".	10
10	245	"There is one trade, which is available to all women," I said.	10
29	42	As a merchant I think a freer trade lies in our best interest.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	6	Such a lenience, however, is seldom shown to the girls, as it is against an agreement binding the entrepreneurs engaged in this trade.	10
20	1714	I would not trade this lovely token of what I am for all the treasures in the house of Croesus, or the warehouses of Mintar, merchant of Ar.	10

Book 17. (25 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1027	The head, of metal, or of bone or stone, with sinew or rawhide, and also sometimes with metal trade rivets, is then mounted on the lance.	10
1	1251	"It was received in trade," said Kog.	10
1	1258	The object, then, through trade channels, would have come, I supposed, to one of the high cities, perhaps Thentis, the nearest of the large cities to the Barrens.	10
2	42	"They will have difficulty recruiting efficient aid," said Samos, "for few white men are allowed to tread the Barrens, and those who are permitted to encroach upon their fringes are normally permitted to do so only for purposes of trade".	10
2	105	In any event, in one way or another, many goods pass through Port Kar, mostly honestly one supposes, and many merchants come to Port Kar, even from Cos and Tyros, with which we are at war, to trade, and sometimes, I suspect, to see what bargains might be found, what results might have accrued from v...	10
2	287	"Surely some must be," I said, "if only to effect the graces and utilities of trade".	10
8	308	In Kailiauk there are many affluent fellows, rich from the trade in hide and horn, and the traffic in kaiila.	10
8	974	"I have purchased some trade goods," I said.	10
8	1000	"Two," I said, "one to ride, another for the trade goods".	10
14	7	I sat nearby, a blanket spread out before me, on which I had spread out various of the trade goods, mostly mirrors, dyes and beads this afternoon, which I had brought into the Barrens.	10
14	41	Many women of the red savages, in spite of the wishes of their men, do not approve of such soft, curvaceous, desirable trade goods being brought into the Barrens.	10
14	442	Who knew? In time, if the girls worked out well, they might be rewarded with a shirt dress, or even some colorful rags from the cuttings of trade cloth.	10
14	1171	Alfred, not stopping to trade, and moving swiftly, not slowed by a coffle of slaves, had, it seemed, made contact with the settlers.	10
14	1283	"To encounter one among trade goods is quite uncommon".	10
15	120	It was a trade point, some nine inches long, socketed, with two rivets.	10
17	53	A soft, braided leather rope, a trade rope, cored with wire, some fifteen or twenty feet in length, was looped some five times about the girl's left ankle, and tied, thence being run to the axle of the nearby wagon to which she was tethered.	10
17	82	One supposes the red savages could trade for them, but this, and other simple arrangements, seem to be preferred, perhaps because of custom or tradition.	10
18	57	It did not seem to be trade cloth.	10
19	96	Two of the Kaiila were beginning to rummage through our trade goods.	10
19	210	He then turned his attention elsewhere, to the trade goods, mostly Grunt's, through which two of his warriors had been rummaging.	10
19	264	I noted, suddenly, looking about, that one of the two warriors who had been busying himself in the trade goods was now reaching for a certain bundle on my own kaiila.	10
19	466	He had protected me with Akihoka and Keglezela, in the matter of the trade goods.	10
19	573	"You still have most of your trade goods," I said.	10
19	641	"I have come to this country to trade".	10
19	760	It was metal-bladed, with a long trade point, some nine inches in length.	10

Book 18. (31 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	176	Others claim that they once lived in a flint-rich area and, prior to the general availability of trade points, conducted a lively trade in flint with surrounding tribes.	10
1	335	They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads.	10
15	128	"Hci was fooled into thinking Canka would not trade, and then Canka outwitted him, making a trade much to his profit!" "If only I could do as well in the exchanging of gifts!" said another fellow.	10
15	159	"Canka pretended not to want to trade, and then he traded, outwitting Hci, and then, wanting the woman, he again outwitted Hci, forcing him, against his honor, to trade her back".	10
1	128	He did have a bow case and quiver, and at the thong on his waist was a beaded sheath, from which protruded the hilt of a trade knife.	10
1	133	The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use.	10
1	257	Grunt had brought a coffle of white slave girls into the Barrens with him, as pack animals and trade goods.	10
1	267	Grunt's last slave, the dark-haired beauty, Wasnapohdi, or Pimples, whom he had acquired in trade for three hatchets from Dust Legs, he was permitted to keep.	10
2	121	What else could they be, in the camp of the red savages? The red savages do not brand their white female slaves, though they often acquire branded girls in trade, brought from the west, from the other side of the Ihanke.	10
2	136	I am sure, if a good offer had been made, he would have traded off Pimples' collar, with its trade beads, for, say, a well-beaded parfleche or a sash of ornamented sleen skin.	10
2	251	This is perhaps because they can be decorated lavishly, adding to one's appearance, and may serve, in virtue of the pommel, primarily, as a support for provisions, gifts and trade articles.	10
3	84	It was a trade ax.	10
4	51	In these days a trade pot or kettle is normally used.	10
7	817	The Dust Legs, too, with whom we trade, know of you".	10
7	819	It was only too likely that, through trade chains, his story had widely circulated in the Barrens.	10
7	821	For example, although the Dust Legs and the Fleer are enemies, as are the Kaiila and the Fleer, the Dust Legs have dealings with the Sleen, and the Sleen, in turn, trade with tribes such as the Yellow Knives and the Fleer.	10
8	50	"If peace comes about," I said, "this might even open up new possibilities for trade".	10
12	127	"We will trade some off and sell some others," said another lad.	10
12	324	I formed a company to trade along the Ihanke.	10
12	328	I furnished them with inferior trade goods, which they were to misrepresent to the savages.	10
12	334	They were the inferior trade goods I had sent to the trading points, being returned.	10
18	88	"Polishing trade goods," she said.	10
18	92	"Then get outside and polish trade goods," I said.	10
18	118	"If your obedience is insufficiently prompt," I said, "I may add to my command the stipulation that you will polish the trade goods outside the lodge naked".	10
18	120	She began to gather together several pots and pans from Grunt's store of trade goods.	10
29	96	When Grunt had come into the Barrens he had had with him, among his other trade goods, a coffle of slaves.	10
37	277	Some slave wine, I am told, is available in trade, usually through the Dust Legs.	10
43	122	"That is perhaps why men capture women, and make them slaves, and buy them, and sell them back and forth, and trade for them, and such".	10
43	193	She had hoped to trade on the affection which she knew he had once held for her.	10
54	4	He carried a feathered lance, with a long iron point, a trade point, socketed, fastened to the lance shaft with two rivets.	10
56	47	Indeed, I suspected that they would soon attempt to obtain them even through the channels of trade.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	32	Hair, incidentally, is a common trade item in Gorean markets.	10
6	320	Others collect them, and buy and sell them, and trade them.	10
31	82	"Master?" "For untold generations they have been, and remain, the subject of looting, abduction and trade.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	154	Lydius is a bustling, populous trade center located at the estuary of the Laurius River.	10
1	875	It is important in the Tahari salt trade.	10
1	983	The power of Ar in the Vosk Basin would seem a much greater threat to their influence, and their sphere of trade".	10
12	7	Too, we had often set up outside mills, inns, granaries, customs posts and trade barns, wherever an audience might be found, even at the intersections of traveled roads and, on certain days, in the vicinity of rural markets.	10
13	333	He seemed an intelligent creature, and his Gorean was doubtless quite different from the common trade Gorean of the urt people.	10

Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	25	This inclination, incidentally, is not all that uncommon among individuals whose fortunes tend to be intimately involved in such matters as importation and exportation, the location and exploitation of foreign markets, and, in general, the overseas trade, the Thassa and island trade.	10
13	208	"Daughter of the matron Aglaia, Lady of Torcadino," she said, "of the Myrtos lineage, she high in the trade of spices, Confirmation Treasurer of the Spice Council of Torcadino, she of the Merchants".	10
14	28	They control many of the most familiar and practical oceanic trade corridors.	10
14	41	One depicted the laying of the first stone in Torcadino's walls, an act which presumably would have taken place more than seven hundred years ago, when, according to the legends, the first wall, only a dozen feet high, was built to encircle and protect a great, sprawling encampment at the joining of...	10
15	193	Too, for most practical purposes, they keep it closed to traffic and trade".	10
24	427	Some women, it is rumored, hope for daughters, that they may sell them to the slave trade.	10
25	6	Indeed, it was identical with that on his place of business, which I had passed at various times when in Ar, a large, formidable structure located in the heart of Ar's slaving district, which housed various facilities pertinent to his trade, ranging from beautifully appointed sales rooms to discipli...	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	141	She was being readied for the "Tahari trade," we were told.	10
7	34	Most of the wholesalers, I suppose, do have permanent headquarters, somewhere, but they, or their agents, often frequent these camps, as well, availing themselves of the considerable advantages accruing to their trade in such places.	10
27	8	Mercenaries, following the demands of their business, the exigencies of their trade, frequently move their camps.	10
34	318	"They provide, for the most part, the means for conducting the trade".	10
34	319	"The trade?" I asked.	10
34	320	"The slave trade," he said.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	872	"Why is it," he asked, "that I am never abused by small men?" "What is your trade?" I asked.	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	702	I mention that they may once have been from Earth because that is a real possibility, having to do with the slave trade.	10
6	47	Trade contacts are made by the rencers themselves, at their election, at established points.	10
13	232	The materials for the weapon and its missiles, not native to the delta, are acquired largely through trade.	10
18	151	"It seems to me a trade to your advantage," I said, "a bit of metal, on a string, for your fellow".	10
21	47	They perhaps obtained them through trade, as well as additional women.	10
26	189	Although large-scale slaving was involved in these wars, and was doubtless a sufficient condition for them, hence the name, other considerations, as would be expected, were often involved, as well, such as the levying of tribute and the control of trade routes.	10
29	264	Nowadays, too, as I have indicated, there are even branded slave girls in the rence, sometimes purchased at trade points, sometimes stolen.	10
30	10	Rencers sometimes, incidentally, trade for the arrow shafts and points separately.	10
31	41	Branding irons, usually with the common Kajira design, are now supposedly a trade item in the delta.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	68	One permitted residence in Ar received the identificatory ostrakon, for example, citizens, ambassadors, resident aliens, trade agents, and such.	10
13	205	"I would not trade Phoebe for her," he said.	10
13	206	"And he might not trade her for Phoebe," I smiled.	10
14	633	Perhaps he will even trade you for a less needful woman, or one more in accord with his needs, whatever they might be".	10
27	409	"I now offer you an even trade," I said.	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	794	Then I would not tell them mine, if I should discover any! Or we might bargain, and trade in such matters.	10
8	949	But for what purpose had I been evaluated and acquired? I did not think it would be merely for the usual purposes for which one such as I might be obtained, say, being purchased off a sales block or being obtained in barter or trade.	10
13	359	Our "pelting," as it is sometimes referred to in the trade, is apparently considerably superior to hempen strands for use as catapult cordage.	10
18	57	Sometimes when important visitors arrive in a city, perhaps to negotiate trade agreements or contract alliances, many slaves are walked, or even sent on meaningless errands, to certain quarters, that they may be viewed.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	435	The free woman, being free, can sell, barter or trade her beauty for favors or gain.	10
16	300	To be sure, some send them, usually back-braceleted, about the city, soliciting trade.	10
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

Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	95	And certainly these barings much ease the work of the Gorean slaver plying his trade on Earth.	10
70	108	"You hunt and capture women, you buy them, and trade them, and sell them.	10
73	205	Often important events are not spoken of before her, even events which might affect her profoundly, raids, excursions, shortages, closings of trade routes, marches on cities, the approach of armies, and such, and even lesser things, as well, for example that offers have been made for her, perhaps by...	10
79	183	To be sure, much of the conversation was far more prosaic, involving matters of trade, commensurabilities of currencies, tharlarion versus kaiila races, pen procedures for acclimating new girls to their collars, the best seasons and cities for the marketing of women, whether or not the slave girls o...	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	216	"Many would not trade them for the world".	10
13	204	What do you want of me? If you do not want my blood, or to bind me, and trade me for a bounty, what do you want? Why have you sought me out?" "No woman in a collar," I said, "should be curious as to why a man might seek her out".	10
15	209	What man would not want one such as she, if only to trade or sell her to another? One of the things a Gorean father often does, if his finances permit, is to buy a young female slave for his son.	10
33	71	Normally such gifts would be received through cultural diffusion, through trade, and such.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	17	Thus are the farther islands sheltered, protected from illicit trade, and the wealth of Cos and Tyros conserved.	10
3	167	She, as others who were confidantes of the Ubara, had become rich in the profiteering attendant on the occupation, as in controlling the supply and distribution of goods, in private marketing, in illicit trade, in the peddling of influence, and the selling of favors.	10
3	266	He intended to trade her for the escape of himself and his men.	10
4	197	Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl rules his domain; he does n...	10
17	14	It was doubtless particularly unpleasant for the some two hundred kajirae aboard, intended for gifts, eventual sale, trade goods, and such, on their chains in the keeping areas.	10
33	92	Once they burn, would she then trade her collar for a shallow deceit, the denial and falsification of her most profound reality, that of female, for the betrayal of nature, for the repudiation of her deepest self, for the inertnesses and tepidities of freedom? She has found herself, and is content.	10
33	308	There are often boys about the docks, too, in ragged tunics, who love to see the large ships, and hope, one day, to learn the trade of the sea.	10
36	7	I had gathered that the movements of the forces of Lord Temmu were much restricted in the islands, with the result that an overseas trade, as it might slip through the blockades of Lord Yamada, might provide an access to goods otherwise less available, in particular, weaponry, missiles, cloth, leath...	10
36	9	The voyage of the River Dragon then, I took it, was a pioneer voyage, which might inaugurate routes of trade and perhaps open conduits of diplomacy.	10
36	15	One could conceive then, eventually, of the navies of warring shoguns extending their concerns beyond their embattled local waters, and beginning to compete for trade routes and access to distant ports.	10
36	393	"We have journeyed to the World's End, Brundisium, we have founded a trade route, we are in the process of obtaining much needed goods for our shogun, Lord Temmu, we have foiled, or meddled in, the plot of the traitor, Tyrtaios, have perhaps saved your life, and, in any event have deprived him of hi...	10
37	37	Are you listening to me? She is a well-formed slave, but you could probably trade her in, at a slave house, for a better, given an extra coin or two".	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	494	"But I would not now trade my tunic for the robes of a Ubara".	10
8	726	It was the center of many trade routes.	10
8	1735	How helpless we are in the hands of men, if they but choose to be masters! How they play with us, and use us as they please! We are so different from them! We are so small, so helpless in their power! Yet I would not trade the Gorean man, with all his might and will, all his arrogance and power, all...	10
10	845	He companions to forge alliances, protect borders, acquire cities, extend dominions, obtain access to trade routes, a port on the shores of Thassa.	10
31	22	The rencers often sell and trade in both directions.	10

Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	24	I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an...	10
53	102	Indeed, I suspect I know why you followed the Slavers' trade, a dangerous trade surely, with its alarming hazards, and even to another world".	10
6	104	"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o...	10
6	134	Perhaps they were for gifts or trade goods.	10
12	28	Perhaps she was not even here, and, if not, what would it matter, and who would find that of interest? Why, I wondered, had I signed articles, to ply the trade in such a far place, again and again.	10
14	66	"It is not work for armsmen, and you have far more than would be required to garrison a trade fort and police traffic on a river".	10
14	68	"A great deal of timber has been moved eastward," I said, "perhaps more than would be needed for a local trade fort, or the construction of barges".	10
14	72	"I know of no cities in the vicinity," I said, "no walls to raze, no palaces to pillage, no gold to seize, no trade routes to command, no women to collar".	10
15	463	Perhaps it is intended to trade with Cos and Tyros, or various island ports.	10
18	33	"More likely, for trade goods," she said.	10
20	183	"Trade," averred another.	10
20	185	"War with whom, trade with whom?" asked Relia.	10
20	199	"They will take us with them," said Relia, "if not for the common purposes of slaves, the services and delights derivable from our ownership, then as goods, objects for sale, for barter, and trade".	10
29	211	"We could trade her on the coast, for a vessel of ka-la-na," said one of the Panther Women.	10
34	42	"Is it to intercept deserters, to trade, to convey departing contingents to the galleys, to take part in some action? They do not know".	10
38	108	"Would you be interested in a trade?" asked the leader.	10
49	17	"They bought a large number of women and, I think, not primarily for the use of mariners and mercenaries, but for sale, or use as trade goods, somewhere, where I am not sure, presumably wherever the great ship makes its eventual landfall, doubtless one of the farther islands, for who would dare vent...	10
49	49	"Do you really think the Pani want us to sell, or trade?" she asked.	10

Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	53	But bandits who know their trade would seldom attack an unscouted camp.	10
6	129	In the last days, thanks to the compassion and generosity of my gracious lord, Lord Yamada, you have been permitted to trade some goods for food".	10
19	95	But they were distributed about, given as gifts, sold, used in trade, bartered, and such".	10
46	261	"What is your class, your craft, or trade?" asked Katsutoshi.	10
46	263	"My craft is the sword, and my trade the same".	10
49	19	I had not specified the nature of the slave but I hoped she would be a barbarian, namely, a typical Gorean kajira, such as was brought to the islands on the ship of Tersites, primarily as gift objects, sales objects, and trade objects.	10

Book 34. (26 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	64	"I speculate," she said, "given the office of my master, that of trade advisor to the Ubar, that he is interested in the possibility of establishing trade relations between Ar and the city of the Lord Arcesilaus".	10
8	224	"There is an extensive slave traffic, an extensive slave trade, on Gor," he said.	10
8	230	But there is nothing like a slave traffic, or slave trade, where Earth is concerned, not recently, at any rate.	10
14	110	"The men will now discuss serious matters," said our first girl, Selena, "the affairs of the day, trade, crops, jurisprudence, markets, ambitions, intrigues, politics, subjects empty-headed free women would find boring.	10
35	29	"Decius Albus," she said, "trade advisor to the Ubar".	10
35	129	"My master," she said, "is trade advisor to the Ubar".	10
36	33	"The trade advisor to the Ubar?" "Yes," I said.	10
36	34	"Then I am not surprised," he said, "for the wealth and taste of Decius Albus, high counselor to the Ubar, trade advisor to the Ubar, are well known in Ar, as is the quality of his display slaves.	10
40	79	There are, in many crafts, trade secrets, which are zealously guarded.	10
45	172	The trade in black wine is closely controlled by the so-called "vintners" of Thentis.	10
45	181	Needless to say, the serving of this beverage at our small collation, or feast, was an indication of the formidable wealth, and widely ranging connections, of Decius Albus, trade advisor to the Ubar of Ar, a man named Marlenus.	10
48	57	"My master," she said, "Decius Albus, of Ar, Trade Advisor to the Ubar, welcomes Lord Grendel to the city.	10
49	15	I was sure that more individuals were present than might be directly concerned in trade.	10
51	294	"Recently," he said, "when we attended the supposed trade meeting in the receiving chamber, we entered through the east gate of the palace.	10
57	31	I recognized some of the men, from the Commerce Court, one of several receiving chambers, I had gathered, in that palace known as the House of a Hundred Corridors, when my master had been introduced under the name of Tenrik of Siba, a representative of a Lord Grendel, a trade envoy from Mytilene, a ...	10
60	14	In the center of the three men in the box, not surprisingly, was the true host of the festivities, large-bodied and coarse-featured, in white and gold robes, Decius Albus, trade advisor to the Ubar, Marlenus, and master of the House of a Hundred Corridors.	10
61	558	"Have I the honor of addressing the noble Decius Albus, trade advisor to Marlenus, Ubar of Ar?" "Current Ubar of Ar," said Decius Albus.	10
61	663	The body of the trade advisor, in its robes, stained with the blood of Aelius, lay inert, at the back of the box.	10
61	748	"These are members of the entourage of Decius Albus, armed retainers, consider their livery, contingents within a small, personal army, a private army, that of the trade advisor to the Ubar".	10
61	824	Surely at least one fellow, from one direction or another, could reach him, and deprive the Ubar of a trade advisor".	10
61	958	"Decius Albus, if he survives, will still be mighty in Ar, as the Ubar's trade advisor".	10
63	71	"Would you trade your collar for freedom?" she asked.	10
63	90	"You would not then trade your collar for freedom," said Paula.	10
63	438	"To think that one so mighty and influential as Decius Albus, trade advisor to the Ubar, would be concerned with us," said Paula.	10
64	194	"The trade advisor has recovered," said Surtak.	10
66	38	Of what use, now, I wondered, could Lucilius be to the intentions and plans of the trade advisor? "The Lady Alexina," I said, "was seized by Tyrtaios, the Assassin".	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	123	Why, I wondered, should she fear being sold in Ar, and from such a famous block as the central block in the Curulean? Might not thousands of slaves dream of such a sale? Too, I had gathered that the wealth of Ar, hub of trade in the northern hemisphere of this world, was being recouped.	10
8	99	Our cargo, other than ourselves, was largely carvings and vessels of jade, a green gemstone, purchased in Brundisium, and apparently brought in as trade goods from afar, from, as it was said, "the World's End".	10
11	20	The Rencers, it seems, once predominantly hunters and gatherers, have now added transport and trade to their economic repertoire.	10
11	22	Trade has primarily to do with rence, but some attention is devoted elsewhere, for example, to salted fish, mostly parsit and grunt, to tharlarion oil and leather, and to feathers, in particular those of the Vosk gull, which are commonly preferred in the fletching of arrows.	10
11	24	As coin abets commerce, so trade abets peace.	10
47	288	"There is, for example, Decius Albus, the trade advisor to the Ubar of Ar, Marlenus," said Addison Steele.	10

Book 36. (15 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	135	"But not with Kenneth Statercounter, Merchant of neutral Brundisium, concerned for the safety of trade routes," I said.	10
3	44	"Could you recognize, again," I asked, "the small goods, trinkets and such, which you received in trade from the confederate of the raiders, the spy and scout of the intruders, he a merchant or in the guise of a merchant, and which were soon stolen back by the raiders?" "Some, I suppose," he said.	10
7	6	"Such goods, for trade and such, are plentiful," said Nicomachos.	10
7	18	"I and others hope to trade freely and profitably in these waters," I said.	10
7	82	"I have come to you, noble officers," I said, "as one concerned with the prospects of trade and the safety of the seas.	10
7	141	"What does a stranger, an insignificant merchant from Brundisium, perhaps a dealer in contraband, know of these things, of espionage and intrigue, of war at sea, of Bosk of Port Kar? Has he been cleared by the harbor authorities in Telnus? Is he authorized to trade in these waters?" "Patience, dear ...	10
8	9	The Cove of Harpalos was not a hub of trade nor a metropolis, but its existence was not negligible; it was not likely to be ignored or overlooked.	10
10	4	It was in this establishment that I had first heard of the destruction of Nicosia prior to its actual destruction, and in which Aktis had noted baubles and trinkets on a dancer's belt much like those which had figured in the trade goods of the raiders' advance scout, he posing as an itinerant mercha...	10
17	202	I can be bought and sold, given away, traded, and beaten, but still I would not trade my collar for anything.	10
17	286	"And then trade, and shipping, the wealth of the seas, would accrue to your party".	10
19	22	Can the net and trident be taken seriously as weapons? Are they not rather, merely, the tools of a trade, not weapons but the equipment of a way of life, like the peasant's sickle and plow? Needless to say, in war, such an error of judgment is likely to be made only once.	10
54	132	Another saying, whispered about by slaves, is that they would not trade their collars and the freedom they know in their collars for a ubarate.	10
58	47	We trade our lives for our ships.	10
60	92	"Perhaps," I said, "the amphorae themselves are trade goods, to be stored aboard certain ships".	10
60	94	"But they seem rather plain, rather common stuff, for trade goods," said Clitus.	10