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Vanity

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	275	Enough humanity remains in them, if they are human, for we have never seen them, to be vain; enough vanity remains in them to wish to inform you of their existence, if only in a way that you will not accept or be able to consider seriously.	10
5	125	Sana, collar or no, had the infuriating, endearing vanity of the young and beautiful of her sex.	10
19	141	Somewhere within that inhumanly calm exterior there lay a vanity that must be vulnerable.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	57	On the contrary, incredibly enough, their vanity is terribly outraged if they are not regarded as worth the risks, usually mutilation and impalement.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	279	On the other hand, I, like many Gorean masters, provided the girl was not testing or challenging me, and provided that free women, or others, were not present whom I had no wish to offend or upset, preferred as a matter of fact to have my own name on the girl's lips, for I think, with acknowledged v...	10
32	243	"Perhaps vanity," said Parp.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	254	How she had challenged him, how she had walked, how insolent she had been! Perhaps in that moment she thought how amused the man might be could he see her now, that proud girl, now in the Sirik, her head to the pelt of a larl, kneeling to barbarians, begging to be a slave girl; and if she thought of...	10

Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	141	The alarm clock, which I had not set, lay on the vanity.	10
3	143	I rolled over to see the alarm clock on the vanity, but the face had been turned to one side.	10
3	171	I leaped from the bed and ran to the vanity.	10
10	59	That decision had alarmed me, but, too, it had appealed to my vanity, and I do not think I would have cared to have been sold as anything less.	10
14	472	Women, in their vanity and jealousy, are often pleased when another woman, particularly one of their city, particularly one disliked, or one who is a rival, is reduced to bondage.	10
16	208	Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	593	If you wish, for your vanity, I shall play the role of a slave girl when they are about, but I assure you that I am not a slave.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	300	The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp...	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	355	They were, after all, at an oasis, and she would not wish to reflect poorly on her master nor, for her own vanity, to compare unfavorably with pampered oasis slaves.	10
24	26	* * * * The girl knelt before the low vanity, with the natural, insolent grace of the trained slave.	10
24	114	Her eye, as she put aside the tiny bottle of perfume, was caught by the bit of silk, lying to one side on the vanity.	10
24	569	How the vanity of the beauty was engaged! "Why not?" I asked.	10
24	622	Whereas this may have injured their vanity somewhat I supposed this possible slight to their status would be more than compensated for by the strength of the new arms in which they would now gasp and writhe.	10
24	770	By the arm I thrust her again into the room where I had first found her, where there were the broad, scarlet tiles, the vanity, the mirror, now a single tharlarion-oil lamp at the side of the mirror.	10
24	875	In the vanity, even could she have reached it, there was not so much as a nail file.	10
24	995	With a lipstick, from one of the tiny drawers in the vanity, I inscribed Taharic script on her shoulder.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1251	I need only salve his vanity.	10
4	34	No girl is so without vanity that she does not want her brand to be perfect.	10
5	190	Many of the daughters of merchants are proud sorts, for the merchants themselves, by virtue of their power, tend to vanity and pride, and agitate, justifiably or not, for the inclusion of their caste among the high castes of Gor.	10
14	379	She seized me by the hair and threw me headlong across one of the vanity tables before the long mirror.	10
14	383	She pulled my wrists behind my back and, swiftly, snapped together the leather cuffs; I twisted on the vanity table, and fell to the floor, my wrists confined by the linked snaps behind my back.	10
19	47	I sensed in him intelligence, vanity, wealth, cruelty and power.	10
21	12	I, a worthless slave girl, in her vanity and pettiness, had laid low not only a warrior, but my own beloved.	10
26	344	"In the yellow drawer, in the vanity," she said, hastily, "beneath silk".	10
26	389	"Go to the vanity," he said, "and kneel before it".	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	379	Now they in their impatient vanity, in their mockery of our impotence, boldly announce to us their whereabouts!" "Have they?" I asked.	10
6	469	"I assess her vanity differently," he said.	10
6	573	In the distance I could see the four guardsmen, moving swiftly, trying to catch up with the girl who had broken away from them in the rash vanity of her hunt, desiring to be first upon the prize.	10
10	186	Or was this but vanity on my part? I heard her mocking laughter drift downward.	10
12	61	Was she not sufficiently beautiful? She had a girl's vanity.	10
35	612	I found a comb on a nearby vanity.	10
38	196	It was a vanity of mine, I suppose, that I had let such things slip.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	260	"Very well," she said, angrily, in her vanity, taunted.	10
12	567	"You have a slave girl's vanity," he said.	10
14	474	She had the vanity of a lovely slave.	10
32	290	"In your vanity," I said, "you dignify yourself".	10
34	71	"I have a slave's vanity, don't I?" she asked.	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	25	How faraway seemed Earth now with its pettiness and vanity.	10
7	70	I remembered Earth, with its pettiness, its greed and vanity, its smugness, its pretensions, its pollutions and poisons, its teeming, crowded, miserable populations, and its endemic fears, fears such as that of not having enough energy to spin the wheels of an exorbitant and largely unnecessary tech...	10
10	184	She had done these things with the same habitual routine, the same lack of attention and concern, with which she might have hung up a piece of wearing apparel or replaced a comb and brush on a vanity.	10
17	38	She went to a vanity and knelt there, and, looking in the mirror, began to comb her hair.	10
26	77	She fled from me to a small vanity by the wall, near her bed.	10
27	140	So why then should she not be displayed? Is not the vanity of the master, indeed, of any man, innocently gratified by the display of his treasures? He proudly exhibits his belongings, and thus shares his joy with others.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	201	But this vanity has a peculiar charm in the case of the slave girl.	10
32	214	My only chance in this rapid, dark matter, as I saw it, was to enlist his vanity and, hopefully, a recklessness attendant upon it, in my own cause.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	157	Too, doubtless it pleased her vanity to be the only woman among so many men.	10
8	128	Already the merchandise was exhibiting the vanity of slaves.	10
8	960	"The vanity of the Hobarts, a proud folk," he said, "was much stung this night, and before female slaves.	10
13	628	I did not wish to exacerbate her vanity.	10
14	272	The same frigidity which may be accounted a virtue among free women, figuring in their vanity competitions, how well they can resist men, is commonly among slaves an occasion for the imposition of severe discipline; it can even constitute a capital offense.	10

Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	464	The canhpi of the Yellow Knife had done more than strike flesh and bone; it had cut, too, deeply, perhaps unaccountably, or mysteriously, into the vanity, the pride and self-image of a man.	10
1	472	The vanity of human beings is interesting.	10
4	88	I recalled her vanity, her arrogance and pride.	10
5	201	Too, as a Sleen Soldier, on the day of a hunt, during their tenure of power, he had matters much more important to attend to than the assuagement of a female's offended vanity.	10
7	82	This probably had to do with pride, vanity, jubilation, high spirits, and such.	10
15	132	This would muchly sting his vanity.	10
17	81	"It has to do, doubtless, with the vanity of Hci, and his hatred for Canka," I said.	10
22	228	Thus, for their own vanity, really, in the final analysis, they would fight to free them.	10
22	239	"But will you not fight for these women, even for reasons of vanity?" I asked.	10
28	18	Neither of us had expected this, not of Hci, from whom we looked for little but arrogance and vanity.	10
28	109	Considering the usual vanity of Goreans, both male and female, over their appearance, this is a patriotic sacrifice of no little magnitude.	10

Book 19. (8 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	131	I had thought I had left it on the vanity.	10
2	157	I had thought I had put them at the foot of the vanity.	10
3	24	There were mirrors, too, here and there, and one was behind something like a low vanity.	10
3	237	She began to take articles from the vanity, such as combs and brushes, and vials, and place them on its surface, before the mirror.	10
4	491	Then I went to the long mirror behind the vanity.	10
4	529	The vanity was low enough, meant to be used by a kneeling woman, and I was back far enough, that I could see myself on the tiles, completely.	10
4	623	I looked back to the mirror behind the vanity.	10
26	307	This stung my vanity, as well as increased the frustrations of my scorned femininity.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	123	She adjusted the draping of the garment, an almost inadvertent, unconscious movement, a natural vanity.	10
2	922	This is a terrible blow to their beauty, vanity and self-esteem.	10
3	105	Fifthly, her garmentry revealed clearly a vanity and taste for sumptuous luxury, a penchant for self-indulgence and ostentatious elegance, also unlikely to be characteristic in such a woman.	10
6	223	This doubtless thrilled her, and pleased her vanity.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	618	How interesting, I thought, is the vanity of slaves.	10
16	739	I gather that she, in the customary, unquestioning self-centeredness and vanity of her youth, seemingly so inevitable in the young, has given little concern to your feelings, to your reality as an independent woman and human being, that she has scarcely thought of you, or understood you, in these wa...	10
18	139	Whereas Boabissia's vanity may well have been involved in this, clearly she did not seem to be of Alar blood, and, as I had heard, the caravan in which she had been discovered as an infant had indeed been one of size and presumed opulence.	10
26	1051	How seriously some free women took themselves! Such ridiculous vanity! A week in a collar would straighten her out on such matters.	10
26	1892	"You are afraid your vanity might be injured?" I smiled.	10
26	1901	"You have a slave girl's vanity," I said.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	13	Then one night I rose from bed and went to the vanity and lit the small candle there.	10
1	27	I went back to the vanity not looking in the mirror.	10
3	193	After my confession to myself, kneeling before my vanity in the darkness of my room, they had suddenly become a thousand times more real and frightening to me.	10
3	516	To be sure, perhaps a bit of my motivation in their acquisition had been from vanity, but, yet, I was sure that there had been something genuine there, too.	10
4	192	"Perhaps those little adornments, those little vanity devices," he said, "will make you more amusing, and interesting, in your collar".	10
6	823	I tensed, fearing I might be struck for vanity.	10
10	125	It deprived us of even the last excuse which our pride or vanity might have left to us not to be perfect in our bondage.	10
10	356	I supposed I had a slave girl's vanity.	10
29	1413	Many Gorean men, in their vanity, will not admit to caring for slaves.	10
29	1418	Indeed, had I not still found him so attractive, and had I not, in my own vanity, been so concerned with my own possible beauty and desirability, rather than that of others, too, I might have understood that immediately.	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	321	The white, scarflike turban on her head, I supposed, was a vanity, to conceal shortly cropped hair.	10
15	558	It was intended to make it seem as though you, perhaps in understandable vanity or embarrassment, wished to conceal shortly cropped hair.	10
20	216	Different cities, perhaps in their vanity, or perhaps simply in accord with their own traditions, often have their own chronologies, based on Administrator Lists, and such.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	597	"Bring me a woman!" This had been a great blow to her vanity, her self-esteem and pride, as she, like most free women, had regarded herself as some sort of marvelous prize.	10
3	543	There is perhaps a certain vanity in this, but they are beautiful there, and I suspect, we have all known women whom we would not have minded putting in such a place, women who would quite appropriately occupy such a place, and indeed, would look very well there.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	394	Not only is she likely to be lowered on the chain, perhaps even to "last girl," which is demeaning to her, and a great blow to her vanity, but she is likely to be encouraged to greater efforts by a variety of admonitory devices, in particular, the switch and whip.	10
20	827	"I do not think it would be in your best interest for you to convey to her in any way, inadvertently or otherwise, even in feminine vanity, the hint, to be sure, the false hint, that there might be anything between you and the putative author of the note you bear".	10

Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	877	Only I, who only a few days ago had first been permitted silk in the garden! This pleased my vanity no small bit! Too, in a sense, it would surely elevate my status among the flowers, if they came to know of it.	10
8	838	Too, I wanted to please the men not just for the sake of my safety, or survival, or that I might be better treated or fed, or have a better kennel, or for the sake of my vanity, or because of a sense of power, exerted over rivals, but because, ultimately, of what we were, they men, I a woman.	10
10	120	It pleased my vanity.	10
10	181	We have our vanity.	10
12	595	And she, in her vanity, will never speak of what was done to her.	10
14	983	"But slaves are permitted vanity, are they not?" she inquired.	10
14	1327	It is not simply because they know us, and know us well, our pettiness, our vanity, and such, that they put us to their feet.	10
18	85	She then, so to speak, courts the collar, eager to reassure herself of her beauty, her desirability, her fittingness to be owned; she wants to prove to herself now that she does have some value, after all, as she had hitherto thought; had she been mistaken; had her arrogant surmise been no more than...	10
18	181	In the wars between free women and slave girls woe to the slave girl who is the serving slave of the free woman! On such a woman the free woman may to her heart's content indulge her vanity, her arrogance, and her pettiness, and may inflict on her her animosity, and, indeed, her hatred, and her frus...	10
18	207	And how right that collar looked on her neck! How she had looked at it in the mirror, and adjusted it, this morning—so carefully, so admiringly—with such approving vanity! She loved it, the pretty little bitch! To be sure, we were very much the same height.	10
19	80	To be sure, much of the booty may have been disposed of earlier, in other places, but one suspects, the vanity of the men of this world being such, that enough will be retained for a goodly showing on the docks.	10
19	370	But if it can be dangerous for a slave to look too boldly into the eyes of a mere stranger, if such can invite a kick or a cuff, or even a whipping, imagine how wary one would be of meeting, and how one would fear to meet, the eyes of one such as the gaunt figure, the eyes of one seemingly unbalance...	10
44	179	"You were, as I understand it," said the first man to Aynur, who seemed now unable to rise even to her knees, "a poor first girl, one not only unpopular in the garden, but even one richly hated therein, one who ruled it strictly and cruelly, personally, arbitrarily, using your modicum of power as an...	10

Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	So it is difficult for her to speak simply and clearly of her age, not because of any personal embarrassment or vanity, which she might once have felt, and would not now be permitted, but because the matter put in one way would be extremely misleading and put in another way might appear at least ini...	10
15	198	"I prefer to let you know how beautiful you are, not to inflate your vanity, pretty slut, which is doubtless already excessive, but to increase your sense of vulnerability".	10
17	1162	But then, she thought, let them be on a chain on Gor! Let them be a chained, braceleted, squatting slave! Let them then preserve what they can of their vanity, dignity, and sophistication! To be sure, she had been forced to relieve herself publicly before men in her training.	10
18	10	She desires, in her wonderful vanity, to be so, as all hormonally sufficient women desire to be attractive to men, though some might fear this feeling and be terrified to recognize its obvious, deeper meaning, but, even if she did not, she is subject to discipline.	10
18	188	Just like a dog! And she is a slave, an animal, too, like a dog! Her master is doubtless proud of her, and doubtless it pleases his male vanity, the beast, to display his lovely property, his beautiful slave, his good fortune, his exquisite taste, to the world.	10
20	686	Ellen, in her slave's vanity, wondered if that could be true, not that there might not be slaves in the village, available to the lads, but that they might be prettier than she.	10
20	995	Surely her vanity suggested that.	10
22	351	Why should I not care about them? Why should I not, too, be vain? Yes, I am vain! I have the vanity of a female slave, who exists only for men! I do not care! I do not object! And I love it! I love it! I love it! This settled in her mind, and kissing the bracelets on her wrists, holding her to the u...	10
26	1293	Whereas they may at first shudder in their pens and jerk helplessly, weeping, at their chains, they know, too, on some level, at least, and this appeals profoundly to their vanity, and to the yearning, secret slave within, perhaps hitherto fearing she might be valueless, perhaps hitherto fearing tha...	10
27	1120	The beasts, Ellen supposes, permitted, and doubtless even encouraged, this misapprehension, perhaps as a concession to human vanity, one acceptable in virtue of its utility in furthering their projects.	10
27	1379	It does not dismay her vanity to learn that she is attractive, and beautiful, even "slave beautiful".	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	I suppose it is offensive to conceive that we are brothers to that woeful life form, the human, one so disgusting and treacherous in its diverse paths, one so despicable in its intolerable vanity.	10
1	27	And how despicable, how contemptible, is the human! A spawn of greed, an embracer of comfort, a seeker of ease, a blemish on the world, a wart of vanity, a stranger to honor.	10
2	240	There were, however, Cabots in Bristol at the time of Caboto's sailing on May 2, 1497 (Earth Chronology) and that doubtless, human vanity being what it is, sufficed to embellish family lore.	10
2	260	But Miss Pym, whether from vanity or not, was under no delusion with respect to her attractiveness.	10
2	265	Too, such gardens are often little more than a vanity amongst rich Goreans, as might be, say, the well-kept gardens surrounding a villa or estate.	10
2	271	But, as of now, perhaps in her vanity, and surely quite complacently, Miss Pym regarded herself not only as an extraordinarily beautiful woman, but, indeed, quite possibly, as the most beautiful woman she had ever seen.	10
5	157	And she, in her unweening vanity, may well have held this view herself.	10
20	310	But then he asked himself, how could one desire such a female, one so haughty and contemptuous, one so obsessed with her own contrived, eccentric self-image, one so naively and pretentiously, so uncritically, imbued with her vanity, and the encumbrances of an unnatural, pretentious, forlorn civiliza...	10
23	87	How tragically are men at the mercy of free women, he thought, at the mercy of their vanity, their whims, their petty tempers, their cruelty, and petulance.	10
36	114	Accordingly, the slave girl, well aware of her beauty, which commonly far exceeds that of the plainer free woman, is seldom a stranger to vanity.	10
79	194	He watched her serving, and he supposed that many of the young men she had so belittled and tormented, led on and then frustrated, for her vanity and amusement, would have enjoyed sitting with others at that feast, seeing her serve with others, as what she was, a slave.	10
79	664	"Men are sometimes blinded by their vanity," said Cabot.	10
80	269	"I seem to remember you from a container," said the Lady Bina, as though with some difficulty attempting to recall the matter, "when you naively, in your presumptuous and foolish vanity, dared to consider yourself a free woman".	10

Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	46	I wondered that her master had not then, in his vanity, chosen to show them off.	10
3	145	Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had ...	10
10	237	So the slave now rejoices in her beauty, and, in her female vanity, relishes the fact that it must now, by the will of men, but as she wishes, too, be displayed for their pleasure.	10
10	290	This attacks the vanity of the woman, with the consequence that she often becomes quite docile, hoping to be soon relieved of this indignity.	10
11	193	Your hair was very beautiful, as well you knew, in your vanity, and it would have been a sorry thing for it to have been fouled in the ordure of tharlarion".	10
13	264	I suspected the hostility of Talena toward Claudia was as much motivated by considerations of politics as of vanity.	10
13	354	Her vanity, her arrogance, the insolence with which she had abused power, her betrayal of her Home Stone, and such, militated against her concealment.	10
15	330	Too, it thrilled her, in her vanity, well aware of her considerable beauty, to be shamelessly exhibited for the delectation of men.	10
18	145	Perhaps even vanity or preening entered into such matters.	10
19	252	"Vanity is pleasant," said Tajima, "but it is dangerous, as well.	10
22	19	She exercises her presumed beauty, seductive and mysterious within her robes and veils, to gratify her vanity, or even her dislike of males, such oafish, vile brutes.	10
22	272	Slave girls, in their vanity, for they, as other women, are vain creatures, often compete on the slave block, each trying to bring a price higher than the others.	10
22	442	And so a slave, how that had been concealed! And so she, in all her smugness, pretensions, pettiness, and vanity, had gone about, from day to day, conducting herself as usual, taking her cabs, dining in her restaurants, cultivating her potential clients, and such, thinking herself a free woman, not ...	10
25	98	For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry.	10
34	96	Some women require a lashing before they feel genuinely entitled to accede to what they really want to do, using the strokes, one supposes, as an excuse to gratify their vanity, that they have no choice now, poor things, but to do what they would wish to do anyway.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	517	Free women have their vanity, sometimes extravagantly so, so why not a slave, as well? And, indeed, is not a slave even more entitled to vanity than a free woman? She, after all, has been looked upon by men, and found fit for collaring.	10
1	110	A moment of indulgence, of clever vanity, can cost one one's life.	10
3	700	Were such as I so common that we were not worth our pursuit? I was elated to be free of him, but frightened, as well, for who would now protect me? And, oddly, my vanity was offended.	10
4	32	She, so bold in the presence of common soldiers, would surely, in her vanity, have assured herself that one so important as the master of the Taurentians would be well apprised of her beauty.	10
5	177	Thus, she might not know that he, unbeknownst to herself, might have seen her, might have looked upon her now-bared face, a face now slave-bare, a face now denied the dignity and modesty of veiling, a face which must now be as exposed to public view as that of any other animal, a face recalled by hi...	10
7	86	I wondered if Alcinoë had wanted me to put her to use, but was angered, even insulted, that I had not done so, and so pretended, perhaps in her vanity, that she had been put to use, as would have befitted the branded, female occupant of a slave collar.	10
8	273	Well had I stung the beauty's vanity.	10
17	95	Many masters, in their pride and vanity, and as evidence of their wealth, good fortune, or taste, enjoy displaying their slaves, much as owners of various goods, of various sorts, enjoy displaying other sorts of properties, statuary, rare coins, artworks, fountains, veminium gardens, classical czeha...	10
36	101	One suspects it is a matter connected with his vanity.	10
37	516	What a vain thing she was, but are not they all? Surely, given their beauty, their desirability, they are entitled to a little vanity, or, indeed, I suppose, to a large measure of that sometimes annoying, but generally endearing, charming quality.	10
37	518	To be sure, the slave is well advised to conceal her vanity in the presence of a free woman.	10
37	1497	"That is the vanity of Ar," said Callias.	10

Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	4	Perhaps you will value it more if you could see it, if only for a moment, through the eyes of another, one astonished, one from a quite different world, a world which was much like a charnel house, or a smoke house, a world with little pride, but much vanity, a world of crowding, scrambling about, c...	10
5	10	You might note that I was not without my collar vanity.	10
5	49	What woman would be immune to such flattery, the flattery of chains, the tunic, the collar, the whip? What woman, in her vanity, would be insensible of the compliment paid to her, the compliment of thongs and bracelets? How could she be unaware of the tribute and honor paid to her, that she should b...	10
8	1466	It was a race or game of sorts, but certainly not one of simple vanity, entered into for the sake of outdoing others, of testing one's charms and such, but one, too, with significant consequences, bearing importantly on one's future.	10
9	114	"Some think they are a decoration, a thing of vanity, like a beauty mark, to call attention by contrast to the exquisite beauty of what is not blemished, others consider them an identificatory device, a subtle one, by means of which a slave may be recognized".	10
10	659	For all her petulance, pettiness, willfulness, vanity, and nastiness, she did not yet have the acculturated arrogance and sense of social power of the typical Gorean free woman.	10
10	828	In some respects she was an interesting, indeed, a remarkable, combination of vanity, ambition, and naivety.	10
10	831	In short, the Lady Bina, counting on her unusual beauty, and well aware of its usual effect on men, and bolstered by an unchastened vanity, one as yet little bruised by the contact with reality, planned to become, however unlikely or incredible it might seem, literally the Ubara of Ar, Gor's greates...	10
12	54	"Who are you?" I expected to be told that curiosity was not becoming in a kajira, but the small, exquisite Lady Bina, despite her selfishness and vanity, her almost charmingly innocent lack of concern with the feelings and lives of others, was often pleasant, and communicative.	10
15	95	Sometimes a master's vanity is involved, and he chains the girl publicly in order to display her, that he may be envied, that his good fortune may be recognized, or such.	10
18	946	The Lady Bina, perhaps in her vanity, or perhaps because she was not natively Gorean, was often careless in her veiling.	10
47	21	The Lady Bina, I supposed as much from vanity as impatience with some of the cultural niceties expected of the Gorean free woman, had always been lax in veiling.	10

Book 32. (9 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	51	Too, vanity courses brightly, rushing unobstructed, amongst such goods, familiar with such things, and each desires to win a fine price, and, particularly, one better than that garnered by rivals, or others of the house.	10
5	54	But, too, at the same time, I found that my curiosity was engaged, and my vanity piqued.	10
6	193	"They are entitled to their vanity," I said.	10
6	330	Yet vanity in a woman is charming, even endearing.	10
21	292	She scorns Tersites, his vanity and presumption.	10
29	68	Did they not have their vanity? They were clothed briefly, and not that differently from slaves, but they wore not rep-cloth, the wool of the bounding hurt, or silk, work silk or pleasure silk, but the skins of animals, of forest panthers.	10
42	142	My vanity had been stung by the ease with which Emerald had captured me in the forest.	10
43	659	And why should women not be vain, as they are so precious, desirable, and beautiful? How can men not lust for them, and make them slaves? What pallid, inert fool would not wish to own one? Whose blood would be so weak that he would not see them as the natural property of men? And what woman was more...	10
50	638	"Her vanity is exceeded only by her addled wits," said another girl.	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	172	There lay my duty, which, for the sake of a childish vanity, I had been on the point of forswearing.	10
12	17	The collar does not diminish a woman's vanity; indeed, it may increase it, perhaps to her surprise, for not every woman is found worth collaring.	10
13	482	Perhaps she unrolls a scroll and finds within it a slip of paper, "You are a slave," or perhaps on the very mirror of her vanity, drawn in grease pencil, she discovers an image, the small, lovely, cursive "Kef," much like the one which might be burned into her left thigh, somewhat below the hip.	10
17	175	"Even a shogun," he said, "has his vanity".	10
29	296	What garmenture could be more stimulating, more attractive, more provocative, or feminine? How could a woman be more female than in such a garment, other than, say, being chained nude to a master's slave ring, or such? Too, I fear that such garmenture, and the collar, as both much enhance a woman's ...	10
31	14	But decision and aggression, intelligence and vanity, authority and command, do not all have similar habitats.	10
42	101	I think the matter would have more to do with emulation, satisfaction, and vanity.	10
42	109	Would it not be a triumph for him, a delightful vengeance on Lord Yamada, and a lovely sop to his vanity, to organize similar suppers, even feasts, for his daimyos, officers, and retainers, feasts served by lovely but lowly barbarian slaves, indeed the very same who served the supper of Lord Yamada,...	10
61	961	As such, he had had to endure her myriad directives, her insufferable, unpleasant temperament, her insolence, her impatience and vanity, her contempt, and her frequent criticisms, disparagements, and insults.	10

Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	53	Why had I not seen the master in his eyes, in his mien, in the nature of his regard? In my vanity, and pride, I had displeased him.	10
1	471	I rose, and hurried to my vanity, and flung open a drawer, and rummaged about.	10
3	107	"Her homeliness," said the leader, "has nothing to do with her coloring, her figure, or such, for many men are found of such a configuration, but with her character, her impatience, her personality, her vanity, her nastiness, her pride".	10
7	68	Perhaps it is a vanity on our part, but it is one that appeals to us.	10
9	185	On Earth I would have denied, in my vanity and pride, that I could be mastered, but I had found on Gor that I could be mastered, and would be mastered, and wanted to be mastered, and was mastered.	10
10	188	Indeed, many slaves, after a sale or two, not only expect to be well displayed, but, in their vanity, enjoy it, and look forward to it.	10
13	88	But perhaps, I thought, I am not so beautiful, nor so desirable, as I, in my vanity, had conjectured.	10
52	212	This, of course, had not been the case with Drusus Andronicus as my intentions had had nothing to do with him but only with my own vanity.	10
52	302	Why then should you wish to outdo her, to demean and hurt her, and, in a sense, steal from her? Drusus Andronicus may be fond of her, and she may care for him, and you, supposedly her friend, to assuage your jealously, to soothe your wounded vanity, would gratuitously intrude yourself between them? ...	10
52	341	I had pitied her, and treated her with condescension, the only true friend I had ever known, forgiving and uncritical, selfless, sweetly affectionate, patient with my vanity, tolerant of my superficiality, caring for me as I was, not expecting me to change, not wanting me to be different.	10
61	112	How I had betrayed Paula! Happily she knew nothing of my vanity, my treachery, my perfidy.	10
63	38	And now I suspected that it had been she who had looked gently on me, making allowances for me, accepting my faults patiently, tolerating my vanity.	10
65	22	Too, of course, a girl, if only in her vanity, wishes to retain her hair, and will do much to keep it.	10
65	399	Then I recalled the wrong I had done to Paula, how I had attempted to steal the affections of Drusus Andronicus, not because I wanted him, but because, in my vanity, I had been jealous of her.	10

Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	781	How grateful we are to be permitted clothing! How we prize even the tiny bits of cloth permitted us, the tunic, the camisk, the ta-teera! And we, in our vanity, are pleased, too, I admit, once we understand our collar, with how well such garments reveal us, and set us off! What woman does not wish t...	10
11	168	I was, was I not, a commodity, and, hopefully, one of some value? Surely slaves are entitled to their vanity.	10
11	255	Free women, in their unwonted arrogance, in their unwarranted, unconscionable, preposterous vanity, in their well-recognized stupidity, commonly take themselves to be far more beautiful than slaves, but it is difficult to assess this claim, even if one were to take it seriously, given the common imp...	10
24	20	This is a rather vaunted exhibition of a trophy, it seems, a public display of success, doubtless a vanity of sorts.	10
29	17	What does it matter that one might be the provably, indisputably best at one thing or another, in a city, on a continent, or on a world? How thoughtless, unquestioned, and cruel are the imperatives of vanity! What are the vanities of women, free or slave, compared to the vanities of men, and yet we ...	10
33	266	"Poor Adraste," I thought, "how content you might have remained in your humble, modest station, had you but known that your petty vanity and greed might lead to a dangling cage in a Street of Coins".	10
33	346	Are not even the wisest occasionally the dupe of their vanity? "You claim to have men?" said the thing.	10
47	328	"The vanity of kajirae is astounding," he said.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	11	"I do not know if it is unwarranted or not," said Thurnock, "but to despise so high a post on Thera, the Admiral of a Fleet, suggests a mighty vanity and an ambition that might fly with tarns".	10