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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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13 12 Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m...
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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8 155 "We raise the verr," she said.
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8 157 The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai.
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 58 I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
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2 73 It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...
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2 89 I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ...
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2 101 I supposed, with the domesticated kaiila, a bound verr or a prisoner might be cast to the newborn animal.
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13 142 Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r...
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22 123 "Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop.
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24 28 Also, Kamchak, to my pleasure but surprise, had had his men drive verr flocks and some Turian bosk after the refugees.
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 369 At one corner in the descending ramp there was a small knot of young men, weavers by their garments, who were gambling with the inked knucklebones of verr, shaking them in a small leather cup and spilling them to the stones.
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13 240 Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and...
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17 520 A number of men crowded between the tables then and some dice, inked knucklebones of the verr, were soon rattling in a metal goblet.
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 341 Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr, and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros.
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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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14 649 It was thus not inappropriate that she should find herself so, as she was, tethered, about her neck, knotted, a simple length of camp rope, slender and coarse, fit for leading verr or girls.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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12 106 It was not uncommon for the daughter of a jarl in that bleak place, upon the arrival of a suitor, to be called in from the pastures, where she would be tending her father's verr.
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12 188 At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull.
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15 926 A she-verr, a tarsk sow, a tabuk doe had no more nor less name than she.
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Book 9. (24 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 169 The girl had full, sensuous lips; she was blond; she also smelled of verr; it had doubtless been she whom I had seen on the slope herding verr.
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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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1 208 But how could I live, I, a cripple, huddled in the chair of a captain, in a darkened hall? I was rich, but I envied the meanest herder of verr, the lowest peasant scattering dung in his furrows, for they could move as they pleased.
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2 259 There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought as offerings ...
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4 277 One was still an exalted free woman, arrogant and insolent, fully and richly clothed, though the garments were now soiled and stained; the other was only a lowly, stripped bondmaid, a work-and-love prize of Torvaldslanders, a purchasable and tradable commodity, as much as a domestic tarsk or verr.
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6 43 A flock of verr, herded by a maid with a stick, turned, bleating on the sloping hillside.
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6 53 Against one wall of the cliff was a long, low shed; in that the small bosk, and the verr, might be housed in the winter, and there, too, would be stored their feed; another shed, thick, with heavy logs, in the shadow of the cliff, would be the ice house, where ice from the mountains, brought down on...
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6 375 "Last month," said Ottar, "a verr was taken".
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7 30 "You," he said, "gather verr dung in your kirtle and carry it to the sul patch!" "Yes, Jarl," she laughed, and turned away.
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7 51 Sa-Tarna is the major crop of the Forkbeard's lands, but, too, there are many gardens, and, as I have noted, bosk and verr, too, are raised.
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7 100 Approaching him, her kirtle held high in two hands, it filled with verr dung, was blond, collared Thyri.
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7 239 "Do you think it is the one who killed the verr last month," I asked Ottar, "and similarly disappeared?" "I do not know," said Ottar.
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7 329 "Have you killed a verr here, and a bosk?" "And, in the hall," it said, its lips drawing back from its jaws, "last night a man".
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10 386 In the Ax Glacier country, of course, there were no farms, and there were no verr or bosk, there being insufficient grazing.
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10 387 Accordingly there would be little field dunging to be done, there being no fields in the first place and no dung in the second; too, due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply.
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11 226 "We will require," said the Kur, "for each day of the march, as provisions, a hundred verr, a hundred tarsk, a hundred bosk, one hundred healthy property-females, of the sort you refer to as bondmaids".
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13 27 It would not have seemed proper, at least in the eyes of Svein Blue Tooth and others, for a high officer to sit at the same table with a fellow whose main occupation was supervising thralls in the tending of verr.
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17 89 I could see the white herd of verr, hundreds of the animals, penned in the northwest quadrant of the camp; in the northeast quadrant were the tarsk pens.
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17 97 Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve...
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17 199 In the northwest quadrant of the camp was the herd of verr; in the northeast quadrant were the tarsk pens.
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18 111 "There is a rallying of Kurii by the verr pens!" cried a man.
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18 112 Quickly Ivar and myself hurried to the verr pens.
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18 115 Several fell in the mud and filth of the verr pens themselves, the bleating animals, frightened, darting about, leaping over the bodies.
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18 116 Near the verr pens we found chained male slaves, picked up by Kurii on foraging expeditions, and used as porters.
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Book 10. (29 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 615 "Nomads, grazing their verr on the stubble of verr grass".
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4 79 Too, she taught her skills useful to a Tahari female, the making of ropes from kaiila hair, the cutting and plaiting of reins, the weaving of cloth and mats, the decoration and beading of leather goods, the use of the mortar and pestle, the use of the grain quern, the preparation and spicing of stew...
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11 6 Behind him was a herd of eleven verr, browsing on brownish snatches of verr grass.
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2 12 The water flowed into the cup through a tiny vent-and-spigot device, which wastes little water, by reducing spillage, which was tied in and waxed into a hole left in the front left foreleg of the verr skin.
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2 36 Kaiila and verr are found at the oases, but not in great numbers.
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2 38 They are kept by nomads, who move them from one area of verr grass to another, or from one water hole to another, as the holes, for the season, go dry.
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2 299 I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine.
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2 358 The finest wool, however, is sheared in the spring from the bellies of the verr and hurt, and would, accordingly, not be available until later in the season.
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3 244 "No," said the man, "he lives by the east gate, near the shearing pens for verr".
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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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4 54 On the shaded sides of some rocks, and the shaded slopes of hills, here and there, grew stubborn, brownish patches of verr grass.
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4 111 The kaiila, unlike the verr and hurt, is never sheared.
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5 99 She had been carrying a large bag of churned verr milk on her head.
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5 104 Her yelp resounded for a radius of a quarter of a pasang about the watering hole, startling even the verr and kaiila.
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5 105 She dropped the churned verr milk, the bag's seams fortunately for her not splitting, and spun to face him indignantly, even as a woman of Earth, but her indignation, the instant she turned, gave way to fear, for he was towering over her, she not a free woman but a slave, not four inches from her.
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5 137 Aya was not pleased to find the girl hair-tied by the tree, the bag of churned verr milk lying to one side in the dust.
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5 140 "There is a time for play and a time for work!" When Alyena had managed to free herself she again, hastily, weeping, lifted and placed upon her head the bag of churned verr milk, steadying it, and proceeded to deliver it to the tent of Farouk.
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11 116 Verr moved about them, brushing against their legs.
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11 121 Verr bleated.
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11 151 "Tend the verr," said his sister, unpleasantly.
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11 166 We then left the boy, and his sister, and their verr.
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11 167 She was scolding him about the verr.
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11 171 When we looked back again they were prodding their verr, leading them, doubtless, away from their camp.
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13 206 On the dais, with him, were several men, low tables of food, fruit, stews, tidbits of roast verr, assorted breads.
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14 203 Proteins, meat, kaiila milk, vulo eggs, verr cheese, require much water for their digestion.
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15 135 It is the sort carried by a nomad herding verr afoot in the vicinity of his camp.
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18 48 The pieces are commonly pebbles, or bits of verr dung, and sticks.
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24 878 Weapons are not for them, no more than for verr, tarsks, or kaiila.
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25 634 In her place now, there was only a girl slave, nameless as a kaiila or verr.
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Book 11. (27 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 402 "I am Verr Tail," said Verr Tail.
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5 143 The Companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun.
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8 189 The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu...
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9 293 "It becomes you," said Verr Tail, a wide-shouldered, auburn-haired girl.
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9 315 "Why did he give you away?" asked Verr Tail.
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9 319 "We will see how you roll in the straw!" "If you are not good," said Verr Tail, "we will soon know.
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9 396 "It is a pretty name," said Verr Tail.
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9 422 "Where did you live?" asked Verr Tail.
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9 439 "I think it is always the ugly girls who are whipped," said Verr Tail.
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9 448 "This is a peasant village, Dina," said Verr Tail.
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9 564 Verr are to be milked, the eggs of vulos gathered, and the sleen must be watered and fed, and their cages cleaned.
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9 603 "Do not break her neck, Master," pleaded Verr Tail.
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9 1446 Sandal Thong was there, and Turnip, and Verr Tail and Radish.
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9 1556 Verr Tail had been caught and raped on her back, struggling, in the stream, once, and Radish had been caught and forced to give pleasure between the sleen cages.
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9 1568 The rapes of Verr Tail and Radish, interestingly, had not counted as code breaches, though in neither case had explicit permission for their conquest been granted by Thurnus; such permission, in such cases, was implicit in the customs of the community; it did not constitute a "taking from" but a bri...
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9 1681 So, too, was Verr Tail.
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9 1968 At a gesture from Thurnus Radish, Turnip and Verr Tail ungagged me and freed me from the heavy stock.
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9 1974 Verr was roasted, and puddings made.
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9 1986 The feast was served by the village slave girls, Radish, Verr Tail and Turnip among them.
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9 2156 Thurnus was nearby, and Sandal Thong, and Radish, Verr Tail and Turnip.
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9 2310 Radish, Verr Tail and Turnip fled to her, hugging her and kissing her.
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9 2326 She tapped Verr Tail on the belly with her switch.
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9 2327 Verr Tail sucked her belly in, tight.
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9 2379 Radish, Verr Tail and Turnip came to me and wished me well, hugging and kissing me.
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12 654 "We would not teach a verr or tarsk to read, they might say, so why should we teach a slave to read?" Some masters, on the other hand, make an actual point of seeing to it that their girls are kept illiterate.
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20 589 Must I await him here, like a silken, caressable verr, unable to flee, observed in the day, chained at night? And if I were sold it might not be hard to track me, from master to master, by means of slave papers, merchants' records, and so on.
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20 590 Goreans tend to keep track of their properties, verr, kaiila, slaves, and such.
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Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 182 Behind them came another of their caste, leading two milk verr which he had purchased.
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3 387 I smelled verr, closed in shallow pens, more than a pasang away.
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3 418 As a sidelight on the Gorean world it might be noted, in passing, that this sort of fellow, as he was working on a slave, who is an animal, would also be expected to be an expert in matters pertaining to the needs of other animals, as well, for example, bosk, kaiila, verr, tarsks, and such.
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38 126 Why should she herd verr and churn butter in Torvaldsland? Let her serve naked and loving, bangled, perfumed, made-up, on the multicolored tiles of some southern domicile.
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Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 417 In her hand there was a half of a yellow Gorean pear, the remains of a half moon of verr cheese imbedded in it.
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4 424 She took the pear from her, with the verr cheese in it.
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4 430 She reacted then, despite herself, with momentary horror, as the girl in the white rag bit thoughtlessly into the pear with verr cheese.
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4 941 She was as nameless as a tabuk doe or a she-verr.
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14 34 Similarly the owner of kaiila or verr will commonly lock the stable or close the pen.
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Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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14 93 The verr and bosk select out the females that please them and herd them to the place of their choice".
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32 348 But, being Gorean, she should surely realize that no more would be involved than in selling a verr or tarsk.
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34 163 Whereas the slave is a domestic animal, it is clear, of course, that they are of much greater interest to the average fellow than, say, a verr or tarsk.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 492 They are regarded as game, much as tabuk or wild verr might count as game, only in this instance as "slave game," and the men of one city, particularly those of the caste of warriors, often delight in the pleasure of "woman hunt," trying, as it is said, their "chain luck".
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6 28 Eventually, after several days of uneasy encampments, the haruspexes of Port Olni, Ti and Ar, meeting on a truce ground, had determined, by taking the auspices, read from the liver and entrails of slaughtered verr, that it was propitious for both armies to withdraw.
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7 52 "The milk of verr, the eggs of vulos!" I heard call.
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32 261 He could then have rushed upon me and slaughtered me like a tethered verr.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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14 35 "So, too, then are yours, who entered the holding like verr trotting into a pen," said Policrates.
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21 381 "Do not forget, either," I said, "that you, who are an animal, a slave animal, were hitherto nameless, that before you had no name, that you were as nameless as any other animal, a verr, a kaiila, or tarsk, owned, not yet named".
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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2 123 The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong.
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2 157 "Verr milk, Masters!" I heard called.
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2 158 "Verr milk, Masters!" I opened the slats a tiny crack.
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2 160 She was, in her tunic and collar, kneeling on a white blanket, spread on the cement, with the brass container of verr milk, with its strap, near her, and the tiny brass cups.
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2 162 "Verr milk, Masters," she called.
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2 301 Some hunters use a live verr but this is less effective as the animal, squealing, and terrified, is difficult to drive from the side of the boat.
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13 676 "Kaiila?" "Yes," I said, "kaiila, tarsks, verr, slaves, and such".
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17 86 To return to the habits of the red savages, it might be noted that in moving small groups of women, usually twenty or less, it is common simply to herd them from one place to another, like verr.
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 275 The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik, a substance developed by the Caste of Physicians to enhance fertility in verr and tarsks.
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40 69 "Get out of here! There is no place for such as you here! Get out! You are an animal! Go graze with the verr! Go swill with the tarsk! Get out! Get out!" Mira, frightened, trying to cover her head, looked to me.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 469 "So, too, are tarsks and verr," she said.
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3 473 "If anything, the possession of such properties would make a human being an even more valuable possession than a tarsk or verr".
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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2 933 The slave, of course, is an animal, as is, for example, a tarsk, verr, or sleen.
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9 119 Sleen, of course, prefer tabuk, or wild verr.
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16 775 "Is that dust upon the horizon? Or is it perhaps my imagination? It could be a group of verr, browsing in the fields.
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Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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2 208 Secondly, it is not unusual either for many peasants to keep animals in the house, usually verr or bosk, sometimes tarsk, at least in the winter.
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3 305 Across the saddle of one were tied the hind feet, crossed, of two verr, their throats cut, the blood now brown on the sides of the tharlarion.
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4 12 Also, not unoften, depending on the numbers involved, and particularly when traversing, or sojourning in, dangerous countries, verr, tarsk and bosk may also be found within the wagon enclosure.
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4 18 There must be fresh rooting and browse for the tarsk and verr.
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5 489 That is often done with verr and tarsk, for example.
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6 123 "Try a spiced verr cube," he suggested.
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6 209 "I will take some of the spiced verr cubes," I said.
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13 73 Near us we heard the bleating of a pair of domestic verr.
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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29 184 For example, animals of all sorts, such as tarsks and verr, as well as slaves, do not have Home Stones.
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29 1483 "Why not more grievously endanger yourself, risking the perilous butchering of a tethered verr?" said Sempronius.
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33 356 It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky.
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 132 Verr, too, and female slaves, and such, are often tethered to the back of wagons.
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2 372 Consider the glory of redeeming a woman of high caste!" "The slave," I said, "has no caste, no more than a verr or tarsk".
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6 883 On the journey there they would be with their animals, probably verr or tarsk.
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15 219 The normal master is muchly concerned to protect his animals, his girls, his sleen, his verr, and so on.
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17 587 There was a great splintering of wood from above us and, over the hill of sand and such, packed behind the door, suddenly, bursting wood apart, there protruded, black, over five feet thick, and of solid iron, like some mythological monster, a great form, with curled-back horns, cast in the likeness ...
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18 166 Many of the bowmen had apparently received orders to seal off the walkway, as they could, this penning the people below between the water and the wall, holding them there, like verr for the slaughter.
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18 313 Or perhaps it was simply a matter of taking possessions along with one, as one might, similarly, attempt to preserve one's livestock, as one might, in flight, say, herd verr or tarsks before one.
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 141 She is no more likely to be slain, even in a killing frenzy, than kaiila or verr.
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12 252 The slave, of course, like the sleen or verr, a mere domestic animal, like them, is seldom in a position to improve, say, a fellow's social connections.
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17 38 "We were massacred like penned verr!" "The field was theirs?" said a fellow, disbelievingly.
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19 20 It might, on the other hand, I supposed, be managed quite easily by a bait girl, tethered, bound, to a stake like a verr, by rencer hunters to attract dangerous prey, usually tharlarion.
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26 191 Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values i...
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26 192 For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn.
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45 120 Shall the verr decide the diet of the larl, the tabuk that of that tarn? But there are laws here, too; nature denied is not nature overcome, but nature twisted; nature repudiated is not nature conquered but nature poisoned, and poisons have their nature, as well; in the end she will have her vengean...
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Book 25. (32 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 365 "I will bring ten verr, full-grown verr, with gilded horns!" promised another.
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11 248 "They are verr, verr, those of Ar," he said.
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14 338 Do you not think the intelligent, the strong, the aggressive, even the evil, will rule, under whatever forms are convenient? The larl, as a larl, must survey verr, or sleen will tend them, pretending to be themselves verr".
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3 91 For example, a bolt of red cloth, a tethered verr or a slave.
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3 230 Two fellows were haggling over the price of a verr.
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3 886 "I have only verr".
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3 891 Other types of throws are "urts," "sleen," "verr," and such.
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3 894 "Verr" is not a bad throw but it was not good enough to beat "larls".
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3 895 If two dice are in play a "verr" and a "larl" would be equivalent on a numerical scale to ten points, or, similarly, if the dice are numbered, as these were, one would simply count points, though, of course, if, say, two sixes were thrown, that would count as "larls".
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7 261 Sometimes they are marched naked at their stirrups, in chains; sometimes they are marched similarly but among slaves holding other loot, golden vessels, and such; sometimes they are displayed on wagons, or rolling platforms, caged with she-verr or she-tarsks, and so on.
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8 310 The taker of ostraka, however, had been adamant, pleading policy and arguing cogently that even a sleen or verr would have to pay, as they would occupy space in the house.
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8 982 They are spoils, as are kaiila and verr.
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9 597 Slaves, incidentally, are not counted in population statistics, any more than sleen, verr, tarsks and such.
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9 610 It was difficult to estimate the numbers of female slaves seized by Cos, just as the number of verr and such.
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9 612 Such slaves, like jewelry, Torian rugs, silver plate, verr, and such, tended to be seized largely as a result of house-to-house searches.
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10 149 It is as though the sleen pretended to be the friend of the verr.
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10 391 One would no more veil a slave than a kaiila or verr.
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10 456 "The larl makes a poor verr," I said.
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11 70 "Sooner could a verr snarl!" snapped the officer.
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11 250 Some pretend to be verr.
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11 251 Some are sleen, disguised in the skins of verr".
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11 284 We must keep the verr pacified, lest they learn how they are milked and shorn".
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12 77 The typical Gorean master has no interest whatsoever in whipping a slave merely to whip her, any more than he would whip another animal, say, a verr or kaiila, merely to whip them.
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14 383 Continue to keep them, as they have been kept, intimidated herds of verr incarcerated in their own city, encouraged to view the wretchedness of their lot as the evidence of some new triumph.
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15 138 He had won the game of standing on the verr skin.
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19 7 As one might suppose, the blood lines of the racers are carefully kept and registered, as are, incidentally, those of many other sorts of expensive bred animals, such as tarsks, sleen and verr.
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19 400 "Verr are shorn," I said, "and so, too, is the bounding hurt".
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20 558 Also, such things would commonly be checked as a simple matter of course, just as one might check the tether on a verr, or the chain on a sleen.
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21 403 'You! I see it! You! You silly little chit, you meaningless little collared slut! You, who are less than a verr or tarsk, you who are less than the dirt on the street, love Milo!' "'So, too, do a thousand women in Ar!' I cried".
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21 460 "'But it is you, Mistress,' I protested, 'not some other, for whom the beautiful Milo pines, as a sickened verr.
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24 90 "My body was not then public," she said, "not then as unimportant and scrutinizable as that of a verr or kaiila".
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26 127 As an animal the slave is not entitled to garmenture, no more than any other animal, say, a verr or kaiila.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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29 453 This site is analogous to that used on a multitude of other forms of domestic animal, verr, tarsks, bosk, and such.
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Book 27. (21 results) Prize of Gor

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13 187 Caravans in forests often keep verr or tabuk with them, tethering them in the camp at night, as the agitation of such animals sometimes gives warning of the presence of sleen in the vicinity.
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17 468 The usual method is to stake out a verr or slave girl, at night, and then, when the sleen comes to feed, concealed hunters attempt to kill it, usually with the quarrels of crossbows, sometimes with long arrows, the arrows of the great bow, the peasant bow.
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17 471 "Well, the verr or slave girl, as well, of course," said Lydia.
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17 977 We are civilians and must be the tame verr of the Cosians, to be milked, or sheared, or led to slaughter, as they please!" "The Cosians are our beloved allies," said a man.
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17 1164 The slave is not permitted privacy, or modesty, no more than a verr or kaiila, for she, like them, is only another domestic animal.
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19 518 She knew it would be done with her as masters wished, as it would be with a verr or a sack of sa-tarna flour.
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19 710 In public places fountains often have several tiers, and almost always at least two, the bottom tier usually no more than a few inches from the ground or pavement, and, as would be expected, slaves, leashed verr, pet sleen, and such, are expected to drink from the lower level.
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20 214 Perhaps they are now in an area which they regard as sensitive, an area in which they would not care to risk the bleating of a verr, the cry of a slave.
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20 331 On the other hand, she was not eager to fall into the hands of strangers, to whom she would be no more than a loose verr or strayed kaiila.
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20 349 Too, it is not above raiding domesticated, as well as wild, herds of tarsk, verr or hurt, that the bounding hurt, valued for its wool.
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20 624 With a lantern we can follow the tracks of the verr they took.
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22 195 Would you teach a verr, or kaiila, to read? In all ways, of course, whether literate or not, we are in the absolute power of our masters.
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22 203 Would a verr or kaiila be permitted to write of herself in the first person? Sometimes, perhaps.
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22 271 Too, there were animals to be vended, other than human females, such as verr, bosk and tharlarion.
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24 29 Had kaiila or verr the rationality to comprehend such matters they, too, would have such an understanding of themselves.
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24 31 She understood herself to be a property, in this case a domestic animal, in the same sense in which a rational kaiila or verr would understand themselves as such.
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25 67 She had then been knelt before the cage, and there the guardsman had removed the tether from her wrists, that on which she had been conducted thither, as might have been a verr, from the area of the silken enclosure where she, and other slaves, had been put to the entertainment of men.
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26 73 Then, guided by a pressure at the ring on the front of the hood's neck strap, she followed, as she must, as helpless as a tethered verr.
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26 378 * * * * Surely, she thought, Selius Arconious knows something of these things! And he paid five pieces of gold, of gold, for me! Perhaps he had a hundred, and they were no more than tarsk-bits to him! What then does that make me worth? Must I not now reassess myself? Am I not again no more than a ch...
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27 439 She could be seized and carried away with no more compunction, no more consideration or thought, than would be accorded to a verr or tarsk, two other forms of domestic animal.
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27 682 Slaves, incidentally, as other animals, verr, tarsks, and such, are not permitted within the precincts of the temples, lest the temples be profaned.
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Book 28. (21 results) Kur of Gor

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69 24 Similarly a verr might be admitted to a verr pen by a guard sleen, but would not be permitted to leave it, except in the company of a herdsman.
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73 247 Is the harmless verr good or evil? It is the verr.
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1 37 It is conscious in countless minds, of course, in that of the mouse, and cat, in that of the urt and verr, in that of the barracuda, in that of the viper and leopard, in that of the hith and larl.
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1 179 And as such, as any other form of such an animal, an owned animal, for example pigs or verr, they are subject to barter, exchange, gifting, sale, and such.
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1 181 Whereas Kurii may own humans, and several do, they do not think of them as "slaves," no more than men of Gor would think of their verr and kaiila as slaves, or those of, say, Earth, would think of their pigs and horses, or cattle, as slaves.
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1 183 The slave, then, from the Gorean view, is a domestic animal, but a particular type of domestic animal, one different, obviously, from other types, such as the verr or kaiila.
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2 180 Accordingly, most of the meat raised in the Steel Worlds is verr, tarsk, vulos, and such.
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5 261 Indeed, in Kur there is a generic word for "food," and it is understood that it covers a wide variety of edible organisms, for example, verr, tarsk, vulo, human, and so on.
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9 15 "And so, too, might a verr if it found larls in its vicinity".
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11 10 "It is bosk, tarsk, and verr".
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13 117 They are exchangeable, bartarable, vendible, as any other form of goods, cloth, leather, metal, kaiila, tarsk, verr, such things.
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18 206 This remark startled Cabot, for he was unused to thinking as Kurii, to whom humans are little different from verr or tabuk.
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30 108 One cannot rape a slave, any more than one can rape a verr or tarsk".
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30 110 "No more than a verr or tarsk".
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30 112 "No more than a verr or tarsk.
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36 228 "But more valuable than some," he said, "usually more valuable than verr or tarsk".
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53 113 They were no more concerned with their own survival than might have been a cloud of varts descending on an isolated tabuk or verr.
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56 39 "I feel like a tethered verr," said he, "staked out by hunters, hoping to lure in a larl".
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60 23 "They filed like docile verr, slowly, in long lines, heads down, to the theater of death," said Flavion.
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66 71 It is a common practice of humans to care for their domestic animals, taking, say, bosk, kaiila, verr, and such to better pastures, more temperate climes, and such.
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73 199 Would you, for example, stop to explain politics, or the events of the day, to kaiila or verr? To be sure, the female human slave, although an animal, is an extremely intelligent and curious animal, and one much interested in her milieu and its prospects.
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 84 Did she not know that, as a slave, she was a domestic animal, as much as a verr or tarsk, and was not permitted modesty? Cecily seemed pleased at this slight turn of events.
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3 197 There is no assurance that its strike will be directed on a tabuk or wild tarsk, or verr.
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5 798 Tarsks, verr, kaiila, and such, of course, do not have Home Stones.
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5 928 "Bosk, and verr, and tarsks, were driven from our path," said a man.
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7 200 They will certainly attack humans, and humans are surely within their prey range, but, given a choice, they will usually choose prey to which they are accustomed, wild tarsk, wild verr, tabuk, and such".
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10 161 "Lord," said he, "set me rather the slaughter of a tethered verr".
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12 278 The fellow, of course, was not another bird, or a tabuk, or verr, but a different life form, the human, which is not an unknown form of prey for a tarn, but it is certainly not its customary prey.
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17 55 But then tens and twenties from each of the centuries fell upon them, as they might upon unsuspecting, exposed verr.
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17 107 Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive.
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18 104 Female slaves are not slain, no more than verr or kaiila".
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18 165 Anyone may look upon the face of a female slave with impunity, as much as upon a verr or kaiila.
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19 170 I doubted that she would be in danger, as she was a slave, any more than a verr or kaiila, but it is hard to anticipate the actions of frightened, desperate men.
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23 170 Is it not difference which takes one's attention, amongst snow sleen a darker fur, amongst the odor of penned verr, the suggestion, ever so slight, a whisper in the night, of the larl's scent? I might have called this to the attention of Lord Nishida but he had withdrawn from the tables.
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25 78 But so, too, of course, are verr, tarsks, kaiila, and such.
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26 295 It is the same with a kaiila, a verr, a tarsk, and such.
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28 274 Wars may be fought for arable land, for markets, for high ground, for defensible passes, for routes, for access to the sea, for olive groves and stands of timber, for orchards and vineyards, for precious metals, cloths, and jewels, for kaiila, tarsks, verr, many things.
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28 281 Does she not then, chained in her cage at night, try fruitlessly to tear the collar from her throat? Then, in the morning, after sobbing herself to a fitful sleep, she is ordered forth from her cage again, naked, on all fours, in her shackles, to be again abused and set once more to arduous, exhaust...
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38 263 They did not know to what they were being taken but neither, too, did other animals already boarded, tarsk and verr.
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Book 30. (28 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 228 As such as the girl are domestic animals, they have no name in their own right, no more than other domestic animals, say, verr, tarsk, or kaiila.
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1 229 One such as she would commonly bring more than a verr or tarsk, but far less than a kaiila.
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3 89 It would be much like trying to bargain with a verr or vulo in hand.
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3 409 Of those still in the compartments, I heard one say, 'Ho, what have we here?' 'Tethered verr!' said another.
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3 452 It was almost as though I might have been a loose verr".
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3 467 Too, who would put sandals, slippers, or such, on verr, tarsks, kaiila, or such? "Did your girls have sandals?" I asked.
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3 553 One would not bargain with a verr, kaiila, a tarsk, or such.
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3 662 We could be left for later, to be rounded up, like verr or kaiila, and roped at a victor's leisure.
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3 1392 "As might have been verr or tarsks".
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4 93 This is not as surprising as it might seem, as the poison of the ost, as that of many poisonous snakes, is prey-selective, deadly against warm-blooded animals, such as tiny urts, its customary prey, or even larger animals, such as verr and tabuk, but harmless to other snakes, to certain forms of tha...
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7 80 Technically, it is not clear that one can rape a slave, any more than one could rape a verr or tarsk.
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8 350 Your features must be as brazenly exposed as those of any other animal, a kaiila, verr, or tarsk.
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10 12 Men are fond of their animals, verr, kaiila, slaves.
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12 68 Free women feel that a slave, as she is an animal, should not be shod, no more than a verr or kaiila, but such things are, of course, up to the master.
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14 124 I thought of the sleen whose hunt is done, who has the tabuk or verr cornered before him.
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17 39 Would one explain such things to verr or kaiila? Curiosity is not becoming in a kajira.
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19 156 Surely one might be similarly pleased, and even legitimately so, at the survival of any other animal, as well, say, a verr or kaiila.
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19 157 The slave, as the verr or kaiila, and other such animals, has value.
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20 284 It tells me I am a woman, a slave, and a sexual being, a woman not her own but one who belongs to another, as a verr or tarsk might belong to another, one at the mercy of the master who may treat her as he wishes, and whom she must strive to please.
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21 804 Would it not be absurd to veil a verr, or kaiila? Such an inhibition seldom lasts past a girl's first switching.
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22 174 They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea.
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22 325 The flood stopped, and, like startled, turned verr, the enemy began to mill, and fearful words were carried to farther ranks, and men who could not even see us received reports so magnified that they must exceed the horror of reality.
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24 89 How marvelous that one might own such creatures, as one might own a verr or tarsk.
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25 62 They looked upon them much as one would look on caged verr.
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27 149 The Pani do raise tarsk, verr, and, of course, vulos.
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34 85 "You would sell for far less than a tarn, and much less than a sleen or kaiila, but more, usually, than a tarsk or verr".
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37 96 The slaves, then, are bred with the same attention to lines, and properties, as other domestic animals, tarsk, verr, hurt, kaiila, tharlarion, and such.
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37 935 "I am sure she knows now!" "But a slave is not permitted one," he said, "no more than a verr, a tarsk or kaiila".
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Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 61 Now, as I was being marched through streets I could not see, naked, back-braceleted, a bead fastened in this small slaver's necklace, the wind and sunlight on my bared body, I knew I was being taken, for the first time, to market, a market where I would not buy but be bought, as much as a verr, or a...
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8 128 Not uncommon, too, might be a line of roped verr, a string of tethered kaiila, or such.
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10 850 Sleen, kaiila, verr, and such, other animals, too, have no Home Stones.
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20 11 After a time, one is likely to encounter little but wild verr, and tiny snow urts, amongst the crags.
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20 246 There are villages here and there in the Voltai, usually of herders of domestic verr.
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20 251 As noted, at the higher altitudes, there is little to be found but wild verr and tiny snow urts.
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27 75 Also, there were tarsk pens, verr pens, and vulo cages.
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31 5 We were sewing some garments of the men, earlier washed, which had been torn in man sport, in this case hunting wild verr on the passes about the Crag of Kleinias, rents mostly from thorn brush, some, it seemed, from climbing, a loss of footing on rocky slopes, or such.
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41 17 We, as vulos and verr, were not combatants.
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46 54 It is easier to rule verr than larls.
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49 115 Snow provided drink, and an occasional mountain verr was secured for food.
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52 310 How bright his eyes were, how tense his body! Might not a starving larl so gaze upon a tethered tabuk doe, a hungry sleen upon a penned verr? In the streets of Ar I had once seen a leashed slave being dragged running and stumbling, weeping, toward a domicile, but the master found himself unable to w...
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Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 59 How smug she is, to be taken from the block by so generous a bid! But at his villa she is cast a rag and put to the tending of verr or tarsk.
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4 229 Who cares about such things in the case of a slave? Is the virginity of a tarsk or verr of interest? Who cares who is first to open them? Then casually, unexpectedly, the auctioneer, behind the slave, his left hand in her hair, holding her head back a bit, gently, but firmly, with the blades of the ...
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6 241 "Laborers, common laborers, peasants, verr tenders," he said.
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6 280 We strive to protect our free women, and even our properties, our verr, our kaiila, our slaves.
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7 115 Would herders inform verr or kaiila of their plans? I preferred the chains, the bracelets, and restraints of the slave house, where I had been trained.
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7 151 Do verr and tarsk have names? "You will form a line, standing, facing me, head down, wrists crossed behind your back," said the fellow in blue, with the marking board, and pencil.
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8 382 A small flock of verr, some twelve or so, were herded by, conducted by a small boy with a stick.
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8 421 Verr, kaiila, tharlarion, and such, do not object to this, so why should slaves? "I wager that one is hot," said a fellow.
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8 515 Verr are sometimes penned in a base hold, but, more commonly, on the open deck.
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9 362 You are no more important to such a man than one vulo amongst others, one verr amongst others, one tarsk amongst others".
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11 105 What can one do to defend oneself, if one is bound, and on a rope? One might as well be a tethered verr.
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15 235 "Men will not fire upon you, no more than on any other domestic animal, a kaiila or verr.
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16 110 "So do verr, tarsks, and kaiila," I said.
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16 204 I have not felt myself as owned, as overcome and helpless, as the tabuk doe in the jaws of the lari, the young she-verr clasped in the talons of the tarn.
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20 197 We are cargo, as much as suls or paga, as much as would be nose-ringed kaiila, penned tarsks, or tethered verr".
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25 95 Some tarsks are extremely large, so large that they are sometimes hunted in the open plains with lances, from tarnback, but these were no larger than verr.
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25 252 I would be chained in no hold; I would not be penned like a verr.
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41 18 As we were slaves, our bodies might be looked upon with the same freedom as those of verr or kaiila, though we were well aware that looking upon us would be likely to provoke interests and excitements quite other than those likely to follow upon the scrutiny of those other beasts.
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42 174 But he had not summoned me to him! Why had he not done so? Could it be that he, truly, did not want me, that I was nothing to him, only another slave? Had he truly pursued me only for pleasure, only for the hunt, as one might pursue any animal, a verr, a tabuk? I did not think so.
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43 197 Surely one would no more kill a slave than a verr, a tarsk, a kaiila".
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43 1099 So, too, I thought might a tabuk be uneasy in the company of a panther, a verr at the side of a sleen.
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50 106 "Surely you must feel stupid," she said, "to be led back here on a leash for all to see, naked and braceleted, like a tethered verr".
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50 339 Would one, for example, feel it incumbent on one to explain things to a sleen, a kaiila, or verr? Too, of course, if the slave is kept ignorant, or uninformed, one has much more control over her.
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50 401 Would one teach a sleen, a kaiila, a verr, to read? Similarly, such slaves may be used to carry messages they cannot read.
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50 498 Might not a leashed sleen or verr be watered similarly? In such small ways may a slave be reminded that she is a beast, to be sure one of a sort likely to be of interest to men.
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52 133 "I would have done as much for a tethered verr," he said, "or an urt on a neck string".
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52 384 Would it not be the same with kaiila, or verr? I became aware of men calling out, from down the beach, by the stairs.
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52 499 Perhaps he would have done as much for a tethered verr or urt.
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53 84 "I would rather," I said, "Master dealt with leather or iron, fruit or grain, copper or tin, verr or kaiila".
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54 67 "No more than a verr, a tarsk, or kaiila," he said.
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Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 175 Penned verr may be slaughtered at the discretion of the butcher.
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6 180 At the cavalry's encampment matters, though austere, were less harrowing and strained, given the smaller numbers involved, and the availability of local game, tarsk, tabuk, and verr.
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7 51 Though they are likely to bring less than a sleen or kaiila, let alone a tarn, on the market, they do have their value as domestic beasts, much as verr and tarsk.
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7 114 "I count them, like verr".
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10 17 Whereas a human being is not the common prey of a wild tarn, the usual objects of its interests being verr and tabuk, the tarn can be dangerous to humans, particularly if a nest is approached.
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10 18 The tarn commonly kills in hunting by breaking the back of its prey, but it can seize a verr and bear it aloft, to drop it to its death, after which it feeds, or carry it to its nest, where fledglings fight for the meat, the swiftest and most aggressive surviving, often at the expense of its sibling...
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12 220 "Across Thassa," I said, "there are places where the livers of verr are examined, where formations of clouds are noted, the flights of birds observed, such things".
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16 34 One could tell the verr and tarsk pens by smell.
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16 35 There was a small dairy which supplied verr milk, and processed it, as wished, into derivative products, primarily cheeses.
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16 88 Most of the slaves from the holding of Lord Temmu who had been traded for rice might be anywhere, distributed to daimyos, warriors, and officers, sold, gifted, bartered, put in the fields, put to herding verr and tarsk, perhaps even being held somewhere, in pens or sheds, to be dispersed at a later ...
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19 2 The large shed housing the pens was but a short walk from the courtyard; it was not unlike such sheds elsewhere in the vicinity, rudely planked, and low roofed, used for storage, and the stabling of beasts, verr, tarsk, and slaves.
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19 84 Would you clothe penned tarsk or verr? "I take it," I said, "as there are no Pani here, these slaves are from amongst those bought from Lord Temmu, those sold for rice".
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19 238 Similarly, as she would not be new to bondage, it seemed unlikely that her indiscretion might be attributed to self-consciousness, or shyness, let alone modesty, which is not permitted to female slaves, no more than to verr and tarsk.
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20 264 Coast gull, vulo, tarsk, verr, and mountain deer".
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20 419 Would you not do as much for a kaiila, a verr, a tarsk? It is likely she is hungry".
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29 268 Consider a flock of verr, a herd of tarsks.
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31 107 "You were fools to lie here, docile, like trussed verr, waiting to be butchered," said Arashi.
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32 46 Indeed, might not ten men, each with ten arrows, match even a hundred, if that hundred could not reach them, and bore but knives and clubs? To be sure, shooting penned verr is poor sport.
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35 44 Indeed, at certain points, there seemed to be a traffic of sorts from outside the camp into the camp, and from within the camp to the outside, this seeming to consist mostly of local peasants vending millet or vulos, herdsmen with a verr or a tarsk or two, some sellers of salted fish, for the sea wa...
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43 181 Toward the perimeter a man and a boy were herding a small flock of verr into the camp.
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44 180 "It is like shooting tethered verr".
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54 13 It is not that they are cannibals, no more than a human could be considered a cannibal if he fed on verr or tarsk.
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55 111 "Either they have been moved, as one might herd a flock of verr to a new location, or they have been stolen".
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57 57 Five days ago Yamada's household troops, most of his staff, his wives, his chattels, verr, tarsks, and slaves, had been moved south.
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59 212 Beware the tethered verr, for the hunter lurks in his blind.
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60 222 They are of no more interest than those of a verr or tarsk".
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60 318 We would be as vulnerable as penned verr.
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60 373 "What will you have, a golden chain, ten flocks of verr, ten herds of tarsk, a house, a dozen slaves?" "I would that I might be permitted to tend your garden," said Haruki.
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61 112 It is much the same with any other domestic animal, say, a kaiila or verr.
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61 896 I would do as much for a tarsk, a verr, or kaiila".
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Book 34. (34 results) Plunder of Gor

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59 43 The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from its chute, and ...
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59 48 What other contribution to an entertainment might be expected of verr? What else could be their role? Too, these were familiar verr, not the related beast, the larger, belligerent, territorial mountain verr I had heard of, horned and agile, which are dangerous to approach, particularly on precipitou...
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9 348 I would later learn that slaves, no more than other animals, had Home Stones, no more than tarsks and verr, though they, like tarsks and verr, would often find themselves the properties of those who did.
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59 46 The verr, the domestic verr, is a placid, contented, gregarious, grazing beast, raised for meat.
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61 599 But what are the verr, and parts of verr, doing here? One would think this was a slaughter yard".
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11 22 Though I had never seen sleen, tarsks, verr, tharlarion, kaiila, tarns, or such, I did learn something of their nature, habits, and appearances.
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11 43 Free women of the enemy make lovely slaves, it seems, but what else are they good for? I had learned that it was far safer to be a slave, or a verr or kaiila, than a free woman in the hands of the enemy.
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14 76 There were only the two soups, four vegetables, and two meats, roast Vosk gull and seasoned, boiled verr, followed by fruit and nuts.
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14 114 Might they not speak as frankly before verr and kaiila?" "My dear Phyllis," said Lysander, Administrator of Market of Semris.
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33 616 What an unwelcome revelation to the verr to learn that sleen exist, to the tabuk that it shares its world with the larl! I feared I might lose consciousness.
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33 633 What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des...
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44 120 Modesty is not permitted to us, no more than to a she-verr or she-tarsk.
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45 9 He then thrust the prong once more into the bowl, secured some three or four more slices, and slid them onto his plate, which was already laden with parsley, steamed rice, fried verr, and roast bosk.
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59 10 To my left there was another enclosure, in which were penned several bleating verr.
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59 47 Flocks of verr might figure in bucolic pageants or dramas dealing with the romances of shepherds and shepherdesses.
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59 49 To observe a flock of verr might be soothing, but I saw little in it that would be likely to be denominated amusing or enjoyable, a spectacle, or such.
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59 63 I was desperate to look, as I could, through the opened portal, that of the first door, leading outside, that through which the verr had been driven.
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59 93 Almost at the same time we heard a frenzied bleating outside, and the shrill noises of terrified verr.
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59 96 "They are running verr, pursuing them, seizing them, and feeding," said a woman.
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60 29 The grass here and there had been soaked with blood, and parts of verr, organs and limbs, skin and heads, were scattered about the field.
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60 31 One Kur regarded us, a trembling, bleeding verr hanging from its jaws.
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60 101 Do you think they care for kajirae? Consider the verr, and their remains.
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60 103 Who knows how long it has been since they have fed in the ways they most wish to feed, and feed to their fill, on abundant, living, bloody meat, either on a steel world or here, on verdant Gor? You and the others, I fear, have been brought forth for Kur feeding, and Kur sport, as much as the eviscer...
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60 163 "It is the slaughter of penned verr".
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60 211 What is amusing in the slaughtering of verr? Surely it is entitled to a kill it can understand, an arena kill, as in the Stadium of Blades".
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60 214 "And," said Drusus Andronicus, "as the Kurii have had their sport with the verr, let us return the kajirae to their kennels and chains".
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61 64 The gate on the ground level, through which the verr had been driven out, was flung open, and a collared, Kurlike thing, bereft of harness, was prodded out, into the sunlight.
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61 115 "You see the remains of verr, the hides, the blood," I said.
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61 155 "Noble friends, High Ones, mighty allies, do you not hunger? Is a banquet not spread before you? See the soft flesh, the tender, two-legged verr! We set them before you! The feast is prepared.
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61 278 What verr would dare to slay a larl, what tarsk a sleen? Could such a thing be understood? Had not nature itself been outraged? "Peace, peace!" called Decius Albus, in his robes, soaked with the blood of Aelius.
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61 681 Charge upon it, and it will scatter, screaming, and you may pursue it and feed upon it as you did other game, the verr.
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63 57 "I feel like a verr," I said.
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63 58 Verr are often tied behind farm wagons.
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63 109 Would a herdsman of verr, or a drover of bosk or kaiila, bother informing their beasts of their destination? A slave must request permission to speak.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

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40 40 Would one discuss such matters with verr or kaiila? But what if a verr or kaiila, or, say, a sleen, might be in such-and-such a place, or vicinity, and overhear such matters? How could they be blamed for what they might accidentally hear? The job of the beast then, if it should be interested in such...
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3 357 The larl must pretend to be a verr, lest it be devoured by swarms of urts.
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8 627 Are they obtuse? Does the tabuk note the presence of the larl with equanimity? Does the verr choose to ignore the prowling sleen?" "If there were truly danger," I said, "the men would evince agitation; they would behave differently".
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26 23 Would one explain one's intentions to a verr, a tarsk, a slave girl? He had rented a small canal boat.
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29 71 Gorean men do not cast slaves to tharlarion, no more than other valuable, domestic beasts, such as tarsks and verr.
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31 56 Too, there was some hissing, and some sounds reminiscent of the bleating of verr and the grunting of tarsks.
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40 295 No, they were tiny, clanking bells, of the sort that might be fastened on a rooting tarsk or a grazing verr, that their location might be more easily noted by local tenders.
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40 350 I tried not to move my ankle, with its humiliating bells, such as might bedeck a tarsk or verr.
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46 10 Happily I no longer wore the three rows of tiny, clanking bells, suitable for a tarsk or verr, which had been placed upon me by order of Florian, supposedly to make it easier to keep track of me, days ago, in the holding of Bosk of Port Kar.
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46 13 Would one discuss plans with tarsks? Would one wish to keep kaiila or verr informed of what is to be done with them? How helpless one is as a slave! "Paga, paga!" called a man.
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Book 36. (21 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 11 "How is it then," asked Thurnock, "that this scrawny verr, clad in filthy rags, perhaps ill fed, is still here, not slain, not chained like a girl, not carried off for the benches or quarries?" "I fled, large one," said Aktis.
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7 59 "Perhaps," said Archelaos, "it is safer to deal with a hundred vulos than one tarsk boar, with ten verr than one sleen.
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17 302 Instead, if you wish, send gentle verr to seek the fanged, voracious larl".
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17 327 The verr is no match for the larl".
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18 151 You can see prize verr and tarsks.
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18 163 "I expect that you will enjoy the fair," said Sakim, "and that your men will enjoy it, as well, even if they are not interested in prize verr and tarsks.
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19 107 "One does not discuss such things with a tarsk, a verr, a slave".
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20 65 That you will be defenseless and at her mercy! Every tyranny wishes to deprive the tyrannized of the means to resist! What tyranny would not seek to do so, what tyranny would not struggle to bring about a situation so much to its advantage? And meanwhile, the docile verr, so proud and jealous of the...
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23 87 "A child, herding verr," said Xanthos, "noted the approach of the bandits, in their long lines, and alerted the village.
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33 92 "It would be dishonorable to lure us forth, trusting and unarmed," he said, "and then fall upon us, butchering us like defenseless verr".
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35 92 "Remember," said Clitus, "it is not a kaiila, a verr, a bounding hurt, even a vulo.
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42 44 The irate, half-starved citizens of Mytilene fell upon them, slaughtering them like penned verr.
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44 27 "It is like shooting penned verr," he said.
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45 32 They came to slaughter verr and encountered men".
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45 161 "It is better to die as a well-fed larl than a starving verr," I said.
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46 23 "Why should verr hasten to the slaughter?" asked Thrasymedes.
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46 25 "We are not verr," said Clitus.
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46 74 "True," said Thurnock, "why risk the loss of even a vulo, a verr, or tarsk?" "Females are the slave sex," said a man.
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57 117 At the same time our men, bearing swords, axes, knives, and even clubs, rushed out from behind the screens, sure footed from the bits of nails fastened in their sandals and boots, and fell, like butchers on verr, on the numerous discomfited and often helpless foes, most unable to regain or maintain ...
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57 229 "We will not be taken and slaughtered like penned verr".
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63 212 "Were you not denied bread, fire, and salt? Do you think mighty Marlenus will welcome you? Does the verr challenge the larl? Might you not be slain the moment you stepped within the pomerium of Glorious Ar? Does the tarsk rush to knock on the door to the slaughter house?" "I must to Ar," I said.
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