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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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6 183 Now the eyes of the daughter of the Ubar were blazing at me furiously from the narrow aperture in her veil.
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7 3 Her eyes flashed from the narrow opening in her veil.
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7 116 "The veil!" I cried.
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7 117 "Unwind it, throw it to me!" Her hands tried to tear at the veil, but she was unable to unwind it, in her terror and in the moment of time left to her.
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7 170 With both hands I wrenched the veil back from her face, thrusting my hand under it to fasten my fist in her hair, and then, as if she were a common tavern girl or a camp slut, I dragged the daughter of the Ubar of all Gor to the shelter of the Ka-la-na trees.
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7 172 She tried frantically to readjust the folds of her veil, but with both hands I tore it fully away, and she lay at my feet, as it is said on Gor, face-stripped.
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7 177 Do not replace your veil".
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7 179 She made no move to replace the veil.
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8 108 At last she took a relatively unsoiled undergarment, something blue and silk, bare at the shoulders, and drew it on, belting it with a strip of what had been her veil.
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 144 Without speaking, she slowly unwound the veil from her face and dropped it to her shoulders.
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8 21 Each of these women wore resplendent Robes of Concealment, rich in color and workmanship, standing out among the drab garments of the men, but instead of the veil common with such robes the features of each were hidden behind a mask of silver.
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8 27 I missed the shrill, interminable calls of the vendors, each different; the good-natured banter of friends in the marketplace exchanging gossip and dinner invitations; the shouts of burly porters threading their way through the tumult; the cries of children escaped from their tutors and playing tag ...
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8 30 The same maiden whom her father must harshly order into the presence of her suitor, the same shy girl who, her parents approvingly note, finds herself delicately unable to raise her eyes in his presence, is probably the same girl who slapped him with a fish yesterday and hurled such a stream of inve...
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25 132 The silver mask of Dorna the Proud turned on Lara, who wore no mask, no veil.
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Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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20 62 In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder.
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29 75 The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain.
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30 93 Though her features were concealed in the folds of a silken veil and she wore the Robes of Concealment there was no mistaking her voice, her eyes, her carriage.
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30 95 She shook the veil from her face and threw back her head and laughed.
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Book 4. (34 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 2 "Flee for your life!" I saw her eyes wild with fear for a moment above the rep-cloth veil and she had sped past me.
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2 65 I also noted, about his throat, now lowered, there was a soft leather wind scarf which might, when the helmet veil was lifted, be drawn over the mouth and nose, against the wind and dust of his ride.
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3 121 The sun reflected from the horns in the veil of dust that hung over the herds was quite beautiful.
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5 77 Like the other women of the Wagons she wore no veil and, like them, fixed in her nose was the tiny, fine ring that proclaimed her people.
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9 90 Thus, unfortunately, save for an occasional furtive pair of dark eyes peering from behind a veil in a recessed casement, we saw in our journey from the gate of the city to the House of Saphrar none of the fabled, silken beauties of Turia.
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9 164 Her face could not be seen, for it was veiled, a white silken veil trimmed with gold, nor even her hair, for it was hidden in the folds of the free woman's Robes of Concealment, in her case, of course, done in the colors of the Merchants.
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9 208 Her own veil, of course, had not been lowered.
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9 209 Over the veil I could now see two dark, deep, almond-shaped eyes; her skin, what I could see of it, was lovely and clear; her complexion was not so light as that of Miss Cardwell, but was lighter than that of the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon.
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9 221 She lifted her head, and I could see the lovely line of her nose beneath the veil of white silk trimmed with gold.
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9 290 "I think not," snapped the angry Aphris of Turia, her eyes flashing above the golden border of her white silken veil.
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9 407 I could see the quickness of her breath marked in the soft silk of her white and gold veil.
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9 416 There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...
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9 424 "Replace your veil!" ordered Saphrar.
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9 431 "Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia, "Slay him!" "Replace your veil," repeated Saphrar to the girl.
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9 432 "Have you no shame?" The girl attempted to rearrange the folds of the veil, but could only hold it before her face, for Kamchak had ripped away the pins by which it was customarily fastened.
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9 486 Aphris spun to face him, her right fist clenched, her left hand muffling her veil about her face, her eyes flashing.
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9 490 Then she ran up the stairs, weeping, veil disarranged, both hands jerking at the collar.
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10 92 "I have no veil!" she cried.
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10 272 Now, looking on the approaching palanquins, I supposed that so once, in veil and silks, had ridden the lovely Tenchika, and so, too, as far as I knew, might have ridden the lovely Dina, had she not fallen earlier and otherwise to the chains of Kassar warriors.
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10 320 I heard her laugh softly beneath the white veil, trimmed with silk.
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10 353 At the request of any warrior of the Wagon Peoples, a judge would remove the pins of the face veil of a Turian girl and push back the hood of her Robes of Concealment, in order that her head and face might be seen.
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10 359 The judge unpinned her white and gold veil and then, with a gentle hand, brushed back her hood revealing her long, lovely black hair.
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12 397 He turned the figure to him and, with both hands, brushed away hood and veil.
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21 53 The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me.
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21 105 She was dressed in veil and Robes of Concealment.
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21 143 "Poor warrior," said she, her eyes smiling over the veil, "you do not even have enough to pay for the use of a skilled slave girl".
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21 145 She laughed and with an easy motion dropped the veil from her face and shook her head, freeing her hair.
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21 323 He deftly removed the veil pins and she scarcely noticed, so terrified was she.
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21 326 "Ah, well," said Harold, repinning her veil.
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21 339 He then unpinned her veil and took her in his arms, improving the time.
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22 91 Permit her to veil herself if she wishes.
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27 93 Then she lowered her veil briefly and kissed me.
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27 102 I did not permit her to replace her veil until I had kissed her, softly, one last time.
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27 103 She refastened her veil and touched her fingertips to her lips beneath it and then pressed them to my lips and turned and hurried away.
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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19 353 In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth...
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5 537 "Don't choke on your veil," advised Elizabeth.
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12 40 "Green! Green!" a woman was crying out, not far from me, her veil awry, her fists clenched.
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14 143 The hood to her ornate, marvelous robes of concealment had been taken from her; and her veil.
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15 116 She was commonly permitted to wear lavish and luxurious robes of concealment, save for hood and veil.
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24 496 But, proud of her beauty and glorious in her joy, she had boldly shortened the garments almost to the length of slave livery, and a light, diaphanous orange veil loosely held her hair and lay about her throat.
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 106 The women of rence growers, when in their own marshes, do not veil themselves, as is common among Gorean women, particularly of the cities.
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13 17 To one side, in a silken veil, richly robed and jeweled, sat Vivina, the ward of Chenbar.
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13 21 Her veil was diaphanous, and I could see that she was very beautiful, though she was also very young.
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13 65 When she had regained her seat, I said, "Your extraordinary beauty, High Lady, which, forgive me, your veil but scarcely conceals, is indeed worthy of a Ubar of Cos—" Lurius grinned.
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13 69 The girl, eyes flashing, scarlet beneath the white silken veil, too sprang to her feet.
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13 142 Her eyes flashed over her veil.
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14 372 Her hand was before her veil.
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14 375 The veil itself was purple, and trimmed with gold.
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14 397 "Remove your veil," I told her.
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14 413 "I—I," she said, "will remove my veil".
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14 427 My hand was in her veil.
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14 431 I cast the veil aside.
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14 439 And one of the symbols of this chasm is that female slaves are not permitted the veil.
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14 440 The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo...
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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14 398 What fool would veil an animal? One of the most difficult adjustments which a free woman, enslaved, must make, is to the loss of the veil.
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7 461 How steadily she regarded me, over her veil, her eyes amused.
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14 417 After a time, incidentally, the former Gorean free woman, while doubtless remaining sensitive to her nudity in public, if it is required of her, no longer misses the veil.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 233 Gracefully the girl, the property of Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, removed her veil, unfastening it, dropping it about her shoulders.
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1 404 Talena drew about her face her veil, refastening it.
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2 16 In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast, the women do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south.
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13 336 It is she!" The women of the north, commonly, do not veil themselves.
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Book 10. (62 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 346 As she knelt on her hands and knees in the gravel, looking up, terrified, a warrior, behind her, on kaiila, thrust the tip of his lance beneath her veil, between the side of her head and the tiny golden string, and, lifting the lance, ripped the veil from her, face-stripping her.
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1 27 A veil concealed her muchly from us, it thrust into the strap of the coined halter at her left shoulder, and into the coined belt at her right hip.
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1 49 Her hand moved to the veil at her right hip.
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1 176 Before us, loosening her veil at the right hip, she danced.
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1 178 With the veil loose, covering her, holding it in her hands, she danced before us.
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1 179 Then she regarded us, dark-eyed, over the veil; it turned about her body; then, to the misery of the blondish girl, she wafted the silk about her, enmeshing her in its gossamer softness.
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1 180 I saw the parted lips, the eyes wide with horror, of the kneeling, harnessed girl, through the light, yellow veil; then the dancer had drawn it away from her, and, turning, was again in the center of the floor.
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1 500 The dancer whirled near us, then enveloped me in her veil.
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1 501 Within the secrecy of the veil, binding us together, she moved her body slowly before me, lips parted, moaning.
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1 507 Fist by fist, my hand on the back of her small, delicious neck, preventing her from escaping, I slowly removed her veil from her, then threw it aside.
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3 12 He pulled his sand veil, yellow, from his dark face, down about his throat.
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3 194 I saw one woman, holding her veil to her face, peering out.
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4 17 "Veil yourself," I laughed.
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4 18 Angrily Alyena, the former Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen of Earth, took the tiny, triangular yellow veil, utterly diaphanous, and held it before her face, covering the lower portion of her face.
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4 19 The veil was drawn back and she held it at her ears.
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4 21 Her mouth, angry, was visible behind the veil.
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4 24 The slave veil is a mockery, in its way.
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4 26 Aside from her veil, and her collar, in the kurdah, she was stark naked.
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4 27 She held the veil before her face.
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4 32 She held the veil to her face.
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4 35 "Yes, Master," she said, and, holding the veil with one hand, groped on the cushion for the tiny golden string with which she might fasten it upon her.
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4 413 In the privacy of the tent, of course, I did not require her to wear the veil.
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4 481 The drover threw back the hood of his burnoose, and pulled down the veil about his face.
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4 483 The rep-cloth veil was red; it had been soaked in a primitive dye, mixed from water and the mashed roots of the telekint; when he perspired, it had run; his face was stained.
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4 523 In the kurdah, kneeling, frightened, naked save for collar and veil, the girl shrank back.
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4 531 The girl, fingers behind the back of her head, at the golden string, lowered her veil.
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4 563 "Veil yourself," I said.
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4 567 I saw her eyes, blue, angry, over the yellow veil, and then I, laughing, with my scimitar, brushed down the right-hand curtain of the kurdah, it dropping, concealing her within, a slave girl.
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4 580 Now I had seen her lift her body, beautifully, in removing her veil before men.
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5 49 Beneath her veil I saw the metal of her collar.
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5 55 She, too, wore veil, vest, chalwar, bangles, collar.
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5 113 His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th...
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5 132 Yes, she was a pretty slave, and the small, diaphanous veil, now with its bit of blood in the silk, where the young nomad's teeth had cut her lip, given her nudity, was a delightful irony.
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5 453 With my lance tip I retrieved her veil from the dust, and put it to the side of her left knee.
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5 464 She knelt there, naked, in the kurdah, the veil by her knee.
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5 703 Beneath the light veil, as she had knelt before me, I had not been able to read the lettering on her collar, which would tell who owned her.
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5 705 The other girl, the white-skinned, red-haired girl, also in vest, chalwar and veil, and bangles and collar, lifted her tray of spoons and sugars.
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5 710 He regarded her veil work; she was skillful; he was a connoisseur of slave girls.
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5 741 At a signal from Ibn Saran, Alyena drew the veil about her body, and around it, and, with one small hand, threw it aside.
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5 743 The veil, floating, wafted away, a dozen feet from her, and gently, ever so gently, settled to the tiles.
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5 807 Her eyes were angry, over her veil.
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5 853 He threw back his head and laughed, and then tore down the veil, that we might look on his face.
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7 478 She, permitted once, secretly, to look upon you in the streets of Nine Wells, through the tiny veil of a haik, she nude beneath, in the keeping of one of my men, later confirmed, stripped on her knees before me, her lips to my feet, your identity—as Tarl Cabot, agent of Priest-Kings.
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10 186 She had been aroused from sleep, not permitted to veil herself, and instructed to prepare and serve black wine.
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11 99 Some of the nomads veil their women, and some do not.
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12 54 "On your feet!" she said, her eyes bright over the purple veil.
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12 85 I had not, because of the purple sand veil worn by Tarna, which she had looped loosely about her face, well looked upon her.
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12 582 The sand veil was high about my face, as though I were a messenger incognito.
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13 151 He picked a grape from a bowl of fruit on a small table near him, and, holding the veil from his face, as do the men of the Char, put the bit of fruit into his mouth, and bit into it.
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13 313 "You veil yourself in the manner of the Char," I said, "but I do not think you of the Char".
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13 318 "It is customary for the men of the Guard of the Dunes to veil themselves," said he.
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13 454 "Must I address you," I asked, "as Abdul?" The man lowered his veil.
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14 169 The scarlet sand veil of the men of the Guard of the Dunes concealed his countenance, and a length of it fluttered behind him as he rode, and the wide burnoose lifted and swelled behind him.
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14 262 Hamid, who was lieutenant to Shakar, captain of the Aretai, now in the red sand veil of the men of the Guard of the Dunes, stood near.
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14 288 Gracefully the girl, doubtless with the permission of the slave master, removed her veil.
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23 205 I shifted my wind veil about my face.
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23 290 He dropped the wind veil about his shoulders.
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24 119 With the permission of the slave master she had removed her veil.
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25 108 He swept aside his wind veil.
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25 174 She wore the mannish garb of the Tahari, save that she did not wear the wind veil nor the kaffiyeh and agal.
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25 452 "Let them assume," I suggested, "that we are leading her to someone to whom we are giving her, and that we wish to tear off her last veil, to her horror, only before her new master".
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26 253 His veil was about his shoulders.
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Book 11. (32 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 8 Then, one after the other, she added the freedom veil, or veil of the citizeness, the pride veil, the house veil, and street veil.
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5 14 A free woman, publicly, will commonly wear one or two veils; a frequent combination is the light veil, or last veil, and the house or street veil.
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5 420 The flesh of my face was now concealed from the direct vision of the strong males by only three veils, the pride veil, the veil of the citizeness and the sheer fifth, or last, veil.
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5 10 The street veil, worn publicly, is extremely bulky, quite heavy and completely opaque; the lineaments of the nose and cheeks are scarcely discernible when it is worn; the house veil is worn indoors when there are those present who are not of the household, as in conversing with or entertaining assoc...
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5 409 His hands were at the first veil, the street veil.
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5 509 The captain's hand fixed itself in the sheen of the last veil, the fifth veil.
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5 515 On Earth, few women veil their face, and yet many will veil their bodies.
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5 12 Many low-caste Gorean women own only a single veil which must do for all purposes.
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5 20 The veil, it might be noted, is not legally imperative for a free woman; it is rather a matter of modesty and custom.
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5 22 Similarly certain bold free women neglect the veil.
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5 23 Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is deemed a brazen and scandalous omission.
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5 25 Most slave girls are not permitted to veil themselves.
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5 26 Indeed, not only are they refused the dignity of the veil, but commonly they are placed in brief, exciting slave livery and may not even bind their hair.
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5 32 On the whole, however, Gorean culture prescribes the veil for free women.
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5 33 Eta fastened the fourth of five veils upon me, the house veil.
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5 37 I felt the street veil fastened upon me.
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5 412 I felt the veil lifted away from my face.
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5 418 When I did not respond to him, he pulled away the house veil.
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5 421 Already, in stripping me of the house veil, outrage had been done to me.
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5 426 "The pride veil will be next, if you do not speak," said the man.
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5 433 The pride veil was ripped from me.
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5 435 The lineaments of my face could now be detected beneath the veil of the citizeness.
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5 436 The last veil, in its sheerness, and transparency, is little more than a token.
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5 438 I turned my head to the side, with a wild sob, as the veil of the citizeness was torn away.
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5 439 I wore now only the last veil.
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5 441 The hand of the man reached to the last veil.
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5 528 I felt his hand tighten in the veil.
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5 537 My mouth, now that he had torn away the veil, was fully exposed to his.
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6 150 "Thurnus," said his free companion, a large, heavy woman, in a rep-cloth veil, kneeling to one side.
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13 182 One woman sipped wine through her veil, staining it.
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15 29 Smiling, with a graceful gesture, the woman lifted back her veil, revealing her face.
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18 32 "Leave, Slave Girl," said the woman's voice, that of a free woman, kneeling in her robes and veil at the table with her escorts, who sat behind it, cross-legged.
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Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

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35 634 I then took forth a long, linear face veil; it was red; it was an intimacy veil; any given layer of this veil is quite diaphanous; its opacity is a function of the number of times it is wrapped about the face; a free woman, entertaining an anxious lover, might detain him for days, each night permitt...
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6 103 One of them slightly lowered her veil.
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6 259 Then, despite her protest, the first girl drew aside the last veil which concealed her features, and the second girl brushed back the final hood, revealing her hair, which was blond.
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35 506 She whipped the silken sheath of a veil across her features.
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35 509 She looked at me, her eyes flashing over the veil.
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35 573 "The veil, and hood, first," I said.
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35 637 The intimacy veil, I detected, had never been worn by the Lady Rosa.
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35 639 I looped the intimacy veil about the back of her neck and crossed it above her breasts and drew it to the sides, over her breasts, and then took both lengths around her body and behind her back, again crossing them, then looping them about the sandal string tight on her waist; I then took the two lo...
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Book 14. (20 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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5 5 She had a bit of white rep-cloth thrown about her shoulders, serving to represent the robes and veil of a free woman.
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9 55 "Yes," said the second, but it seemed to me that she, beneath her robes and veil, shuddered again with pleasure.
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13 117 "I wish to purchase veil pins at the shop of Publius.
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16 61 She was a small, delicate, brown-skinned woman, with a light yellow veil, common in Bazi.
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16 212 I saw the veil draw inward.
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16 217 Her eyes, over her veil, were angry.
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18 143 She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots; a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching beige material, and an opaq...
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18 227 I remembered the slender softness of her body and shoulders, the beauty of her throat, and face and hair, now muchly concealed by the jacket, and hood and veil.
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18 230 Above the veil, briefly, I saw her eyes flash in anger.
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18 310 Then, in a moment, in her swirling skirt, and hood and veil, and boots, quirt in hand, she stood before the five kajirae, members of her own sex, briefly tunicked, wearing feminine work collars, with rings, who knelt before her.
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22 4 The Lady Florence nodded, her features visible behind the light house veil, suitable for an informal dinner with friends.
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22 5 The Lady Melpomene, too, wore such a veil.
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22 25 Free women, drinking, commonly lift their veil, or veils, with the left hand.
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22 27 Sometimes, however, particularly if in public, they will drink through their veil, or veils.
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22 30 In their homes, of course, with only members of their families present, or servants and slaves, most free women do not veil themselves, even those of high caste.
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22 105 It struck against her veil and the upper portions of her garments.
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22 146 "Now throw back the hood and remove your veil," said the Lady Florence, harshly.
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22 148 The veil bore the stain from the wine which had been thrown upon it.
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22 150 The Lady Melpomene, angrily, threw back her hood, and then, pin by pin, lowered her veil.
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32 161 "Please!" I wondered how often she, as a free woman, had tortured men, with a glance, with nearness, with the flash of a silken ankle, descending gracefully from a palanquin, with the tiny artful, disarrangement of a veil.
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Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 215 Her eyes glistened over her veil.
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12 37 Her shoulders stiffened under the robes of concealment and her eyes flashed angrily over the silk of the house veil.
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12 38 I could see her lips and mouth, vaguely, beneath the veil.
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12 75 Her eyes flashed angrily over the white silk of the house veil.
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14 18 She had not worn a house veil since the night I had kenneled her.
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20 30 She had thrust back the hood of her robes and unpinned her veil.
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22 32 The woman gasped, her hand at her veil.
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22 54 Her veil was torn away.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 56 On the other hand, it must be admitted that Gorean free women commonly so robe and veil themselves, so colorfully, so exotically, and in such delicate and provocative arrangements, as to call, however inadvertently, and however contrary to their sincerest wishes, a fellow's attention to themselves.
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19 162 No more is she permitted the veil of darkness, or of gowns, or covers.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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5 28 With one hand, nonchalantly, she freed her outer veil.
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5 29 Her features, then, were concealed but poorly by the second veil, little more than a wisp of diaphanous silk.
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5 33 A master might have given such a veil to a slave, as a joke.
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5 119 Over her veil of light silk her eyes shone.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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14 480 How different, then, was that absurd pretense of a veil, that sweet diaphanous sheen of material, compared to the rude, coarse sack which had now been tied over her head.
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Book 19. (24 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 75 The people at the sides of the street did not seem surprised that my features were not concealed by a veil.
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4 77 At any rate, whatever might have been the reason, the people, reassuringly, from my point of view, seemed neither scandalized nor surprised by my lack of a veil.
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4 339 He had seen me without my veil.
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4 425 She, too, as I had, wore no veil.
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6 210 Perhaps he had noticed the quickening of my breath, in the inward movements of the veil.
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6 368 At one secluded point in one of the gardens I had paused and, pretending to adjust my veil, had stood quite close to Drusus Rencius, but he had stepped back, and looked away.
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6 370 I had then, angrily, refastened my veil.
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6 374 I felt the wind, over the parapet, move my veil.
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6 439 "This veil," I said, irritatedly, "is loose," reaching to it, fussing with it, taking a pin from it, with the result that the cloth, as though temporarily disarranged, fell to my left.
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6 451 Then he repinned my veil, closing my lips away behind it.
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6 581 I dabbed at my eyes with the corner of my veil.
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10 53 My veil, not even unpinned, was wadded and thrust back, deeply in my mouth.
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10 77 He, in the darkness, adjusted my veil.
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11 59 "Remove your veil," he said, "and your outer robes, and slippers".
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12 23 "Put her in the veil of state," said Ligurious.
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12 24 Susan brought forth a long, lovely veil, intricately embroidered.
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12 26 She then pinned the veil in place.
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12 30 I had not even known such a veil existed.
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13 29 Then he jerked away the veil of state from my features.
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17 98 If so, how wrong he was! "Lady, kind lady!" I called to a gentlewoman passing by, in her robes and veil.
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17 101 I saw her eyes, over the veil.
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36 1005 I reached to the pins at the side of the veil.
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36 1007 I then put the veil with its pins, to one side.
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36 1018 "Now remove the last veil," he said.
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Book 20. (68 results) Players of Gor

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16 49 The reference to a "veil of Anango," of course, was a reference to the veil in a well-known farce, "The Veil of Anango," performed by many companies.
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4 9 She dabbed at her lips with a napkin, under the veil, and then let the veil fall again into place.
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1 112 Her eyes flashed at Samos, over her veil.
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1 146 Her eyes were apprehensive, over her veil.
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1 191 "Remove your veil".
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1 201 "Remove your veil," he said.
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1 203 "Your veil," said Samos, gently.
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1 211 She put her hands to the veil and, delicately, unpinned it, dropping it to the side.
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2 82 Who was that fellow, for example, who poured paga on one's head? And who, the free woman might wonder, was that fellow who gave her so sudden, so unexpected, so fierce a pinch? Indeed, perhaps she is fortunate that her very veil was not lifted up and her lips pressed by those of a stranger, or was i...
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2 1502 "I am going to lay aside your veil," I told her.
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3 232 Her hand went to the pins at the left side of her veil.
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3 235 She unpinned her veil at the left side, and let it fall, and brushed back the silken hood of her tent robe, shaking her head, freeing a cascade of long, dark hair.
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4 3 She lifted the veil delicately, almost flirtatiously, drinking behind it.
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4 33 "Lower your veil".
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4 34 She unpinned the veil.
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4 38 "You may replace the veil," he said to her.
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4 40 I saw that she repinned the veil.
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4 195 She lifted her veil, delicately, and sipped Ka-la-na behind it.
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4 226 I lifted her light cloak about her shoulders and she fastened it beneath her chin, under the veil.
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6 43 "Yes!" she cried, holding her skirt up about her face, it clenched in her small fists, to veil herself with it.
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6 63 "I mean, of course," she said, "that I apologize for having to veil myself so hastily, making such swift and resourceful use of whatever materials might be at hand".
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6 87 Indeed, in some cities she is marched back to her home stripped, except for the face veil which has been put on her.
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6 266 "Pray, tell, good sir," she cried, "what might it be?" "A veil," said he.
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6 268 "But it is no ordinary veil," he said.
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6 273 "It is a veil woven by the magicians of Anango," he said.
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6 282 "And it is the special property of this veil," Boots solemnly assured the girl, "that it is visible only to free persons".
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6 309 "To be sure," he said, "the veil is quite large, containing easily enough cloth to conceal an entire figure".
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6 315 "I wish you well, lady," said Boots, sadly, preparing to return the veil to his pack.
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6 341 "And so I wonder," said Boots, "if in exchange for this wondrous veil I might be granted the briefest of peeps at your priceless beauty".
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6 353 "Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well".
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6 360 "Can you see the veil?" one of the men in the audience asked her.
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6 374 Boots, with a great flourish, shook out the magic veil and displayed it shamelessly, so cruelly tempting her, awing her with its splendors.
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6 393 Then, if you decide, in your nobility, to deny me even the briefest of peeps, what harm could possibly have been done?" "A splendid suggestion, kind sir," she said, "but where, in this fair meadow, at the side of a public road, will I find suitable privacy?" "Here!" said Boots, lifting up the veil.
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6 435 "Here I stand by a public road, stripped as naked as a slave," said the Brigella, confidently, to the audience, "but yet am perfectly concealed by this wondrous veil".
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6 445 "But, sir," she said, "I have not yet decided whether or not to grant you your peep, that moment of unutterable bliss for which you will, willingly, surrender the wondrous veil to me in its entirety".
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6 455 "Who might have conjectured that our problem could have succumbed to so deft a solution!" "I bundle my clothing," she said, "and place it herewith beneath the edge of the veil, that you may see it".
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6 461 "Hold up the veil," said Boots to the Brigella.
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6 465 "Oh, the veil is so light!" "It is exactly like holding nothing up at all," Boots granted her.
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6 477 "I do not see my clothing about," said the Brigella to the crowd, "but doubtless it is hidden behind the veil".
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6 479 "Yes," she said, "you may now, if you wish, infer, and correctly, sir, that behind this opaque veil I am bare".
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6 484 "Hold the veil higher," said Boots.
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6 488 She now stood with the veil raised high above her head with her arms spread.
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6 494 "Yes," cried Boots, "it is my active imagination, conjecturing what exposed beauty must lie perfectly concealed behind the impervious barrier of that heartless veil".
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6 502 "Let me, dear lady," said Boots, "hold the veil.
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6 512 "Keep holding the veil up high," she said.
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6 517 "Do not look! They must not see the wondrous veil! Surely they would take it from me".
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6 552 "You may now give me the veil, sir," she said, angrily.
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6 564 "I must have that wondrous veil!" "Not without my peep," said Boots.
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6 727 "I do not even think you saw the wondrous veil," he said.
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6 741 "I will give you another chance," he said, reaching behind his back, to where he had supposedly hidden the veil at the first sight of the supposed brigands.
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6 1085 "Give me then," she cried, suddenly, "the wondrous magic veil!" "Alas," cried Boots.
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6 1135 "Even though you are a slave, yet still do you desire the wondrous veil?" he asked.
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6 1139 What does it matter that I am a slave? I am to obtain the wondrous veil".
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6 1140 Boots seemed to be folding up the veil, neatly.
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6 1144 The wondrous veil is now to be mine! Thus it is that I, with my beauty, can conquer men!" "Here," said Boots.
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6 1145 She, still on her knees, rising from her heels, reached eagerly for the veil.
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6 1149 "I cannot give you the veil," he said.
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6 1171 "I am now going to toss this wondrous veil up into the air," said Boots.
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6 1199 "Noble free woman, and noble gentlemen, of the audience," said Boots, "the Magic Veil of Anango, presented by the players of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur extraordinary! We thank you for your consideration!" There was much applause.
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6 1206 She removed her veil and threw back her hood, shaking loose her dark hair.
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9 95 I was forbidden even to wear a veil.
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13 78 "Are most free women in Brundisium so easily recognized?" "Hardly," said Flaminius, "but our agent in this case, happily, was one of the men who had originally served the Lady Yanina, one who had occasionally, unbeknownst to her, a lusty fellow, spied upon her in her tent when she had unpinned her f...
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16 39 "To him your disguises, as brilliantly contrived as they may be to deceive others, are as flimsy and transparent as a veil of Anango!" The Petrucchio character, it might be noted, is commonly, in the northern hemisphere, portrayed as a captain from Turia, a city securely far away, off in the souther...
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16 328 "Put back your hood, take off your veil, you," said Chino to Rowena.
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16 329 "My hood! My veil!" she cried.
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16 342 "It is an unspeakable insult! I shall have the magistrates on you for this!" Chino took a quick step toward her, and she stepped back hastily, fumbling with the hood and veil.
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16 345 "You are a slandering sleen!" But she removed her hood and veil, quickly, frightened, complying.
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16 380 Their disrobing, leaving only scarves about their necks, concealing their collars, and round, adhesive patches on their thighs, concealing their brands, was done mostly in character, with apprehension and reluctance, with piteous whimperings, suitable lamentations, and such, but Bina, in the matter ...
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Book 21. (19 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 9 It had been discovered that a woman who is seen with a veil, even if she has lowered the veil, abjectly and piteously face-stripping herself, is less likely to be fed than one with no veil in evidence.
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22 391 And, of course, who would veil an animal? Does that very thought not seem ridiculous? Would you veil a tarsk, a kaiila, a sleen? So why another sort of animal, a female slave? And free women, though presumably with different motivations, also insist on denying the veil to slave girls.
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26 1648 But it still affords her a veil, a last veil, so to speak.
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1 15 "You have unpinned your veil," I observed.
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1 22 "Why have you unpinned your veil before me?" I asked.
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3 13 "Please!" cried a woman, thrusting back her hood and tearing away her veil.
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11 252 "Veil me then!" she begged.
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16 1188 "To be sure," I said to Boabissia, "you are in somewhat greater danger than many free women for you have not chosen to veil yourself".
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16 1200 "And perhaps you should veil yourself".
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16 1204 "Then veil yourself," I said.
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21 333 After all, might there not be some danger, as the fair occupant entered into, or descended gracefully from, the sedan chair, that there might be the careless movement of a veil, revealing a bit of throat, or the inadvertent lifting of a robe of concealment, giving them the glimpse of a briefly expos...
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22 387 To be sure, she is likely later, as she learns more of her collar, and her own desirability, to do gladly without the inconveniences and encumbrances of the veil.
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24 541 "But the Alar women do not veil themselves".
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26 1314 "There will be many people about now? Will you buy me robes and a veil and bring them back here?" "Do not count on it," I said.
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26 1641 For example, in public, she can be as jealous of her brief tunic as a free woman of her veil and robes of concealment.
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26 1664 It is generally understood, of course, save for ruffians, discourteous pranksters, and such, that the right to remove her last veil, so to speak, belongs to the master.
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26 1702 An interesting difference between the Gorean woman enslaved and the Earth girl enslaved is that the loss of the veil may strike the Gorean woman as calamitous in a way that the Earth girl may find incomprehensible.
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26 1704 The Earth girl usually finds this sort of thing, the shelter and mystique of the veil, and such, hard to understand, accustomed as she is to going about with her own face bared publicly, a behavior which a Gorean woman, particularly of high caste, would be likely to find scandalous, and which would ...
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26 1705 To be sure, the Gorean woman soon learns to do without her veil, and to delight in this new-found freedom, for example, in the freshness of the air upon her face, and the excitements that she now stirs in the hearts of masters.
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Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 238 I was suddenly conscious, terribly, of my bare feet, of the bells on one ankle, the anklets on the other, of the nakedness of my legs within the swirling, veil-like skirt, of the bareness of my midriff, of my bared arms and shoulders, of the jewelry upon me.
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3 396 Without really thinking I smoothed the veil-like skirt about me, so that it was in an attractive, circular pattern.
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15 29 Some men, to be sure, enjoy having at least a bit of cloth or a slave rag on their girl, so that she will understand, even if she is awakened rudely, that there is some veil which is being removed from her.
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19 8 I looked up, my eyes over the veil.
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19 94 But he did not stop me as I there, gracefully, but with a certain seeming timidity, in the shelter between the walls, brushed back my hood, and lowered my veil.
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19 145 I removed the robe and he thrust it, too, with its hood, and veil, into the sack.
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Book 23. (52 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 330 "Those tasks are for low free women," she said, "not for high free women such as we!" "Yet you are now at the wall, in shackles," I said, "and have upon you not so much as a veil".
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2 452 "Though I am of high caste," she said, "I have permitted you to kiss me, and not merely upon a sleeve or gloved hand, but wholly upon my lips, and not even through a veil, no, upon my exposed and naked lips themselves, unveiled, almost as though I might be a slave! Therefore, in return for this ines...
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6 35 A large piece of cloth, probably her veil, had been thrust into her mouth and tied there.
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6 68 She looked at me, angrily, over the veil.
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6 78 But this would give me the opportunity to get her veil into her mouth.
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6 80 I bunched and thrust veil into her mouth.
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6 82 Little by little, then, with my fingers, patiently, my thumb holding my present accomplishments in place, and pushing them further back, to make room for more folds, I worked more of the veil into her mouth.
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6 86 With the hood cords, which can fasten the hood more or less closely about the neck, like a cloak, I fastened the veil in place.
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6 96 As I had used her veil in her silencing, of course, she had now been face-stripped.
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6 100 No longer had she the dignity of the veil.
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6 372 It is one thing for a free woman, tearfully, while in the dignity of robes and veil, to attempt to impose on a fellow's gullibility or good nature, and quite another for her to do so when she is unclothed.
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6 379 "And his reward then," I speculated, "would be a grateful peck through your veil?" "I am a free woman," she said.
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8 186 As she held her hands before her, rather to the bridge of the nose, they concealed the lower portions of her face, much as would a veil.
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8 188 It was not so much at first, however, that I recalled her upper facial features, as they would have appeared over the veil, if only because it had been very dark in the upper level when I had sought my space last night, as I recalled immediately, vividly, the appearance and positioning of her small ...
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8 204 Last night I had face-stripped her, before gagging her with her own veil.
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8 480 I then, with a piece of scarflike cloth taken from my pouch, a wind veil, sometimes bound across the mouth and nostrils of a tarnsman, usually at high altitudes, blindfolded her.
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12 278 I could see little, but it seemed to be a delicate head, covered closely with a white, scarflike turban, and I saw deep eyes, and a bit of veil, over the bridge of a fine, delicate nose.
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12 322 The veil, of course, was appropriate for a free female.
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13 85 She still had the white, scarflike turban and veil.
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13 145 I wished I could reach the veil and pull it away from her, face-stripping her.
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15 125 Not taking my eyes from the warder, who now crouched down, against the outside wall, her eyes wide with terror over the veil, I seized him by the back of the neck, below the helmet, and lifted his head a few inches from the floor.
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15 300 "But first," I said, "there is the matter of the veil".
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15 301 "My veil?" "It interferes with my vision".
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15 311 Too, it has its symbolic aspects, that she is not entitled to the veil, that it is not for her.
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15 314 "Beast! Beast!" Then her fury turned to fear, timidity and docility as I held her veil.
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15 316 Instantly, she fell forward, to all fours, to relieve pressure on the veil, to keep it on her.
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15 318 "No," she said, "please do not take my veil".
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15 329 "Remove the veil, carefully," I cautioned Lady Claudia.
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15 332 The veil was fastened with a string and Lady Claudia, with two hands, lifted it gently from the head of our prisoner.
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15 346 "I do not have my veil!" she said.
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15 354 I had denied her the delicacy, the modesty, the shield and defense of the veil, just as it is denied to slaves.
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15 355 "Did you not expect to tear off your veil before Cosians?" I asked.
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15 358 "One grows used to being without the veil," said Lady Claudia.
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15 514 I gathered together the scarflike material she had had wrapped turbanlike about her head, her veil and her "rags," and handed them to Lady Claudia.
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15 635 "Now put on the veil, and wrap the cloth about your head, quickly," I said, "as she had them".
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15 695 "If she is to be me," said Lady Publia, suddenly, frightened, looking at Lady Claudia, wearing her former rags, veil and scarf, "what then is to be my role in this farce?" While we had been talking I had taken the cloth which Lady Claudia had brought from the side earlier, that which she had cut fro...
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15 754 Lady Claudia looked at me wildly, over the veil.
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15 759 Lady Claudia's veil and Lady Publia's hood doubtless afforded them some protection.
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15 973 "Look at them," I said, "the soldiers, their glory, their strength!" "It terrifies me!" she wept, the wind moving the veil against her lips.
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16 173 Then we will draw away somewhere, I removing this mask, you retaining your rags and veil".
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16 210 Her veil was wet with tears.
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16 483 But she had knelt down before me, though she was a free woman, and lifting her veil, pressed her lips to my sandals.
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16 492 "I would, if I were you," I said, "while any of Ar's Station are about, with a sword in their hand, keep my veil".
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18 277 Her eyes, over the veil, looked up at me.
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18 284 She crawled back to me and brushed aside her veil, to press her lips piteously to my feet.
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21 337 "In Ar's Station," he said, "as in Ar, robes of concealment, precisely, are not legally obligatory for free women, no more than the veil.
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21 623 The sturdy collar of the sirik, from which the central vertical chain depended, could not be seen on her in front, or at the sides, because of her veil.
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21 644 A man then, carefully, not hurrying, removed the veil and turban.
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21 1074 "We dare not veil our features, Master," said Publia, "for we are slaves".
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21 1079 On Gor, as slaves, not permitted the veil, they often, early in their bondage, long for veiling, not only because of the now-invidious comparison between their own bared features and those of modestly veiled free women, the differences in dignity, prestige, and such, but because they are overwhelmin...
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21 1082 Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a...
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21 1159 Why else would they wander the high bridges at night, why else would they take passage in small caravans, why else would they embark upon dangerous voyages? Many is the veil which has inadvertently slipped in public places, to be hastily and with obvious embarrassment readjusted and repinned.
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Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12 28 In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
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12 88 Her eyes flashed over the veil.
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12 308 "Beware," she said, "lest I be truly cruel to you, lest I truly torment you, lest I lower my veil and permit you to glimpse, ever so briefly, my beauty, a beauty which you will never possess, which you will never kiss or touch, a brief glimpse which you must then carry with you, recalled in frustrat...
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12 311 I saw that she wanted to lower her veil.
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12 316 "Look then," she said, reaching to the pin at the left of her veil, "on the face of your enemy!" Like all women she was vain.
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12 318 Slowly, gracefully, was the veil lowered.
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12 326 One of the things which many free women resent about female slaves is that they are commonly denied the veil, that men may look openly, as they please, upon them.
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12 350 "Guards!" she cried, in fury, at the same time angrily lifting the corner of her veil, fumbling with it, repinning it.
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21 117 Such things are now doubtless spread throughout the delta, a bottle for a rencers' feast here, a veil there to strain water, somewhere else a necklace clinking, wrapped several times about the ankle of a fishing rence girl".
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28 26 Another reason for permitting a girl clothing, incidentally, is that she may have at least one veil, so to speak, which the captor or master may at his will, and for his pleasure, remove.
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32 46 It is possible I might not be permitted a veil".
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32 49 Not even the free women of the rencers veil themselves.
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32 50 I suspected that the Lady Ina's days of the veil were over.
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32 51 Captives and slaves are commonly denied the veil.
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44 356 "Oh," he smiled, "she would lower her veil now and then, when men were about, as though inadvertently, as perhaps in adjusting it, or lowering it for a moment to cool her face, such things".
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Book 25. (51 results) Magicians of Gor

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10 275 Her eyes flashed angrily over the veil, an opaque street veil, now readjusted.
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1 289 "Disgusting," said a free woman, drawing her veil more closely about her face.
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1 412 The free woman put her fingers to her throat, over the robes and veil.
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7 284 Myron, from the package held by one of the two fellows who had ascended the ramp with him, drew forth a shimmering veil.
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7 286 "It is the veil of a free woman!" said a man.
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7 296 Myron then, however, from the same package, drew forth a set of the ornate robes of concealment, displaying these to the crowd, as he had done with the veil.
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8 297 Then, with a piece of cloth, we rigged a veil.
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8 300 When we were finished we thought it a job rather well done, an approximation to the robes of concealment, hood and veil.
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8 391 No sooner had he had Phoebe inside the door to our room in the insula than he had torn the sheet and veil from her and flung her on her belly to the straw-filled mat, then leaping upon her with a cry of joy.
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10 201 One of the lads, their leader it seemed, clutched the woman's pouch, torn from her belt, and another held her veil.
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10 248 "And bring forward the pouch and veil".
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10 252 He then signaled to the lad with the veil.
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10 253 That fellow then brought the veil forward, too, and put it on the stones.
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10 256 "Give me my veil!" demanded the woman, coming forward.
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10 301 Her eyes were now wide, over the veil.
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10 329 I then jerked away the veil, and surveyed her features.
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10 333 I then tied them together, behind her back, with her veil.
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10 335 She could not now readjust the veil.
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10 337 "Let me veil myself.
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10 351 They were well bound, held within her removed, knotted veil.
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10 364 Although there is some variance from caste to caste, and city to city, it is common for free women to veil themselves in public.
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10 388 The slave is denied the modesty of the veil.
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10 391 One would no more veil a slave than a kaiila or verr.
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11 113 Her veil had become somewhat disarranged, and in such a way that one could see her lips and mouth.
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11 115 She pulled the veil more closely about her features.
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11 168 The girl, crying out, shrieking, pulled half from the chest, had her veil and clothing torn from her.
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11 351 "Did you not see how, when the lid of the chest was held open, her veil had been disarranged, that her lips and mouth might be visible?" "It was impossible not to notice it," I said.
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12 221 I recalled how quietly she had lain in the box, that her veil had been disarranged when first the guardsmen, and Marcus and myself, had looked upon her.
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12 569 "If necessary I will slacken my veil.
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17 53 She tossed her head, in the hood and veil.
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17 54 "If you be free, dear lady," said the fellow, "report me to guardsmen for my effrontery, that I may be flogged for daring to address you, but if you be my Litsia, remove your hood and veil".
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17 55 As though with an almost imperial resignation she put back her hood and lowered her veil.
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19 987 "In the first, the free woman puts herself in Milo's way, she compliments him, she calls herself to his attention, perhaps she lowers her veil a little, perhaps her tones to him are soft, and special, making clear to him that there is an eager lover awaiting him beneath her veils and robes, perhaps ...
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19 989 He then makes a judgment as to whether they are to be encouraged or not, and then, later, perhaps after she has lowered her veil for Milo, and let him gaze upon the revelation of her beauty, and he has seen her move in the palanquin, apparently inadvertently, but in such a way that he can conjecture...
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19 1058 "You wore your street veil," I said.
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19 1060 "You did not wear your street veil," I said.
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19 1069 Would you veil a she-tarsk, a she-sleen? "And so he saluted your beauty?" "Yes," she said, "with a beautiful gesture".
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21 486 "I obeyed, and sensed the lowering of her veil, the soft sound of rustling silk.
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21 565 "Well, then, Master, she smiled, muchly pleased, and readjusted her veil, and told me that I would be admitted to her presence immediately any time of the day or night".
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22 45 Perhaps they had come to witness what revelations might be betrayed by a subtly disarranged veil, or to see if one might not, if sufficiently alert, and if one were so fortunate, catch a glimpse, perhaps no more than a flash, of an ankle.
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22 66 Still she did not move! More than one of the women left behind was now repinning her veil, almost as though in embarrassment.
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22 328 "What is the meaning of this!" exclaimed the woman, hastily raising her veil, holding it about her face.
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22 376 I reached to her veil, and tore it away, face-stripping her.
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22 377 She seized the veil in my hands but, as I held it, she could do nothing with it.
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22 378 Indeed, she could not, as she held the veil, even draw her hood more closely about her features.
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22 383 She released the veil, cried out with misery, turned about in the palanquin, and threw herself down in it, covering her face with her hands, hiding it from me.
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26 76 "Who will remove the veil of a free woman?" she laughed.
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26 83 "I had thought that perhaps it was for that reason that Mistress had lowered her veil".
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26 87 She then, gracefully, reached to the pins at the left side of the veil and unpinned it.
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27 553 "Veil yourself," he said.
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27 576 She, over the veil, from within the hood, looked up at us.
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Book 26. (43 results) Witness of Gor

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3 28 But I was not now concealed in my body veil! Who could this man be? I was in light silk.
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11 1317 "Send her to me tonight, bathed and perfumed, in earrings, with but a single veil".
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11 1438 I wondered if he in the chair might sometime, recalling me, have me sent to him, perhaps, as he had suggested with Dorna, in earrings and a single veil, if that.
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12 401 'Perhaps you would like me, for a moment, to lower my veil,' I said, 'that you might glimpse my features.
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12 414 "And you did not, even for an instant, lower your veil?" I asked.
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12 671 His hands were at my veil! 'No!' I cried.
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12 673 He held the veil in place.
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12 675 I was helpless! He could face-strip me at his pleasure! 'You did not care, as I recall,' he said, 'to lower your veil, that even for an instant your features might be glimpsed.
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12 679 His hands were on my veil.
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12 681 'If you do not wish your veil lowered,' said he, 'then let it be raised.
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12 682 ' He then lifted my veil upward and bound it about my face.
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12 683 In moments, with the veil and other cloths, I was blindfolded.
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12 684 A cloth, too, over the veil, was drawn back between my teeth, deeply, and tied, within my hood, behind the back of my neck.
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13 1045 To be sure, it might be different if the free woman were a prisoner or criminal, sentenced to the prison for a time, to serve there, perhaps denied her veil, perhaps being forced to reveal her ankles or even calves to the prisoners.
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14 312 "Remove your veil," I said.
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14 313 She unwound the veil from her features, carefully, gently, where she had wrapped it about herself, and brushed back the hood of her robes of concealment.
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14 358 It had been in consequence of my orders that she must remove her veil, exposing her features.
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14 361 It was not as though I were a man, a brutal masculine captor, who had torn away her veil, that he might assess her promise for the collar.
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14 363 Yet I was sure it would not have been lost upon her that she had had to remove her veil, that so precious thing to a free woman, at my command.
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14 492 Hurriedly she muffled her features in the veil, holding it in place with both small hands.
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14 496 She lowered her hands, and the veil.
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14 497 "You were slow to veil yourself," I said.
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14 568 She took her veil first, and submerged it in the water.
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14 572 At my arrival she had knelt without being asked to do so, and had removed her veil.
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14 639 "I would put on again the veil and the robes of concealment," I said.
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14 746 "Please!" "You would not be permitted your veil," I said.
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14 1226 She has forgotten everything! Does she not know how she is clad, that she is in a collar, that she is leashed! Woe! She is acting like a free woman! The free woman's eyes flashed above her veil.
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14 1311 Her hand went, it seemed inadvertently, modestly, to her veil.
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14 1342 I wondered if she wondered, beneath her robes, and veil, walking across the terrace, what might be the feel of slave iron on her limbs, what it might be to feel the sawdust of the slave block beneath her bared feet, what it might be to hear the call of the auctioneer, proposing her for the considera...
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14 1866 "Hurry, veil yourself," I said.
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16 9 The veil that I had been granted, however, was not of the sort commonly adorning free women, heavy and opaque, but was of light silk.
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16 31 I hated the silken veil then, despite its beauty, for it sealed my lips from food.
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16 66 I held the veil more closely about my features, as though this might the better conceal me.
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16 70 It did seem to provide me with some protection from his gaze, but its actual effect, of course, was primarily symbolic, that there was a veil.
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16 72 I quickly lowered my hands, the veil, as it were, adjusted.
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16 81 "Remove your veil," he said.
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16 83 I removed the veil first from my features, opening it, and brushing it to the sides, and then, with almost the same gesture, I lifted it and put it back, behind me.
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16 85 This veil, like many of the veils on this world, was quite large.
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16 88 A smaller veil may be used, of course, with hooded robes of concealment.
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16 96 When I had parted my veil, and brushed it back, and put it behind me, I could hear, in the music to my right, in a ripple of interest and approval, of delight and excitement, the musicians' reaction.
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16 118 "Do you know how to use your veil?" he asked.
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16 121 I removed the veil from about my shoulders, and dropped it to the side.
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29 48 About the robes and hood, and veil, holding them in quite tightly against her neck, was a collar.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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24 492 Who could be tearing her veil away from her body? Could these be invisible assailants, of some powerful, but uncertain nature, or were they her own needs determined despite her conscious will to have their way with her, to reduce her brutishly, ruthlessly, to the denied, but beloved core of her bein...
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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80 226 The small figure had lifted back her hood and lowered her veils, of which there were indeed two, a street veil, and a house veil.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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39 353 Statistically, few women on my former world veil their features, but, on Gor, free women, particularly of upper caste, commonly veil themselves in public.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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49 250 The Lady Alexina drew forth, from within her robes, a veil, a house veil, I think, and handed it to Kurik, who put it in his pouch.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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11 224 The woman, fully clothed, in the robes of concealment, perhaps lifting the glass to her lips, beneath her veil, eyes seductively lustrous over the veil, imbibes the beverage.
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29 25 In the manner of free women with strangers present they would lift the veil with their left hand and eat and drink discreetly behind the veil.
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